A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh, 82. kiadásJ. Murray, 1851 - 360 oldal |
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ix. oldal
... East India Company at Baghdad , -a man , whom enterprise , industry , exten- sive and varied learning , and rare influence over the in- habitants of the country , acquired as much by character as position , eminently qualified for such ...
... East India Company at Baghdad , -a man , whom enterprise , industry , exten- sive and varied learning , and rare influence over the in- habitants of the country , acquired as much by character as position , eminently qualified for such ...
2. oldal
... East , have the same longing to cross the great river , and to explore those lands which are separated on the map from the confines of Syria by a vast blank stretching from Aleppo to the banks of the Tigris . A deep mystery hangs over ...
... East , have the same longing to cross the great river , and to explore those lands which are separated on the map from the confines of Syria by a vast blank stretching from Aleppo to the banks of the Tigris . A deep mystery hangs over ...
3. oldal
... east of Orfa , and the war between the Sultan and Mohammed Ali Pasha being still unfinished , the tribes took advantage of the confusion , and were plundering on all sides . With our usual good fortune , we succeeded in reach- ing ...
... east of Orfa , and the war between the Sultan and Mohammed Ali Pasha being still unfinished , the tribes took advantage of the confusion , and were plundering on all sides . With our usual good fortune , we succeeded in reach- ing ...
6. oldal
... eastern bank the soil had been washed away by the current ; but a solid mass of masonry still with- stood its impetuosity . The Arab , who guided my small raft , gave himself up to religious ejaculations as we approached this formidable ...
... eastern bank the soil had been washed away by the current ; but a solid mass of masonry still with- stood its impetuosity . The Arab , who guided my small raft , gave himself up to religious ejaculations as we approached this formidable ...
13. oldal
... His anxiety to know the object of * To eat money , i . e . to get money unlawfully or by pillage , is a common expression in the East . my journey was evident , but his curiosity was not CHAP . II . 13 MOHAMMED PASHA .
... His anxiety to know the object of * To eat money , i . e . to get money unlawfully or by pillage , is a common expression in the East . my journey was evident , but his curiosity was not CHAP . II . 13 MOHAMMED PASHA .
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Abd-ur-rahman alabaster Amadiyah amongst ancient appeared Arabs Asheetha Assyrian Baghdad banks bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey British Museum brought building carried castle Cawass centre Chaldæans chamber chariot chief Christians descended desert Diodorus Siculus discovered discovery earth edifice encampment entrance eunuchs Euphrates excavations feet formed fragments head Hormuzd Rassam horsemen horses houses Ibrahim Agha inhabitants inscriptions Ismail Pasha Jebours journey Kalah Kalah Sherghat Kasha Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurds lions Melek Mesopotamia monuments Mosul mound mountains Mussulmans N. W. Palace Nestorian night Nimroud Nineveh ornaments party Pasha plain plunder priests principal probably raft Rassam ravine reached remains resembling river rocks rode round rubbish ruins sacred scarcely sculptures Shammar Sheikh Adi Sheikh Nasr side Sinjar slabs Sofuk stones sun-dried bricks tents Tigris Tiyari Tkhoma tomb trees trenches tribe valley village walls warriors whilst wild winged bulls winged figures women workmen Yezidis
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325. oldal - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
331. oldal - The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
255. oldal - Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
309. oldal - Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
96. oldal - When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them ; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
xiv. oldal - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
256. oldal - When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: 20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
216. oldal - How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen ? 25 Am I now come up without; the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
48. oldal - ... hasten to the diggers, for they have found Nimrod himself. Wallah, it is wonderful, but it is true! we have seen him with our eyes. There is no God but God;" and both joining in this pious exclamation, they galloped off, without further words, in the direction of their tents.
21. oldal - Written in an easy unaifected style : and the sketches which it gives of European life and manners under an eastern sun must interest all who have friends in India, and who would like to know how they pass their days."— The Theuligian.