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... entrance to a miserable hovel . Through a crevice in the wall , I saw an Arab family crouching round a heap of half - extinguished embers . The dress of the man , the ample cloak and white turban , showed that he belonged to one of the ...
... entrance to a miserable hovel . Through a crevice in the wall , I saw an Arab family crouching round a heap of half - extinguished embers . The dress of the man , the ample cloak and white turban , showed that he belonged to one of the ...
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... entrance . I now dug down the face of one of the stones , and an inscription in the cuneiform character was soon exposed to view . Similar inscriptions occupied the centre of all the slabs , which were in the best preservation ; but ...
... entrance . I now dug down the face of one of the stones , and an inscription in the cuneiform character was soon exposed to view . Similar inscriptions occupied the centre of all the slabs , which were in the best preservation ; but ...
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... entrance or door- way . Being anxious to make as much progress as possible , I increased my workmen to thirty , and distributed them in † Entrance d , same plan . * Wall e , plan 1 . three parties . By opening long trenches at right ...
... entrance or door- way . Being anxious to make as much progress as possible , I increased my workmen to thirty , and distributed them in † Entrance d , same plan . * Wall e , plan 1 . three parties . By opening long trenches at right ...
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... entrance , or doorway , had now been completely cleared , and the backs of several inscribed slabs had been uncovered . * A corner - stone , which had evidently been brought from another building , was richly orna- mented with flowers ...
... entrance , or doorway , had now been completely cleared , and the backs of several inscribed slabs had been uncovered . * A corner - stone , which had evidently been brought from another building , was richly orna- mented with flowers ...
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... entrance into a chamber , and a bas- relief nine feet in height , representing a human figure raising the right hand , and carrying a branch with three flowers re- sembling the poppy , in the left , were also uncovered . But these ...
... entrance into a chamber , and a bas- relief nine feet in height , representing a human figure raising the right hand , and carrying a branch with three flowers re- sembling the poppy , in the left , were also uncovered . But these ...
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already amongst ancient appear Arabs Assyrian banks bas-reliefs bricks brought building built bull called carried centre Chaldĉans chamber chariot chief Christians church collected completely containing covered described difficulty discovered discovery earth East entered entrance evident excavations face feet figures followed formed four frequently hand head History horses houses inhabitants inscriptions journey Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurds lions looked Mosul mound mountains nature nearly night Nimroud object once opened orders origin ornaments palace party Pasha passed Persian plain Post 8vo prepared present preserved priests principal probably raising reached received remains removed represented resembling rest river rocks rode round ruins scarcely sculptures Second Edition Sheikh side similar slabs soon standing stones tents tomb trees trenches tribe valley village Vols walls warriors whilst whole winged women Woodcuts workmen Yezidis
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Page 54 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Page 323 - 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.
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Page 49 - Sheikh could be prevailed upon to descend into the pit, and convince himself that the image he saw was of stone. " This is not the work of men's hands...
Page 254 - 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.
Page 253 - 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.
Page 307 - 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...
Page 216 - 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.
Page 54 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
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