Nineveh and its remains |
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alabaster Amadiyah amongst ancient appear Arabs Asheetha Assyrian Warriors Babylon Baghdad bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey Bedouins British Museum brought building carried castle Cawals Cawass Centre Palace ceremonies Chaldæans chamber chariot chief Christians colours covered cuneiform cuneiform character desert discovered discoveries dress edifice encampment entrance eunuchs excavations feet formed fragments head Hormuzd Rassam horsemen horses houses Hussein Bey Ibrahim Agha inhabitants inscriptions Ismail Pasha journey Kalah Kalah Sherghat Kasha Khorsabad Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurds lions Melek Mesopotamia Mosul mound mountains Mussulmans N. W. Palace Nestorian Nimroud Nineveh ornaments Pasha plain plunder priests principal probably raft Rassam reached remains represented river rocks rode round rubbish ruins sacred scarcely sculptures Sennacherib Shammar Sheikh Adi Sheikh Nasr side Sinjar slabs Sofuk stones sun-dried bricks tents Tigris Tiyari Tkhoma tomb trees trenches tribe valley village walls whilst winged bulls winged figures women workmen Yezidis
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Seite 189 - I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.
Seite 46 - What more noble forms could have ushered the people into the temple of their gods? What more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature by men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their conception of the wisdom, power, and ubiquity of a Supreme Being? They could find no better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man; of strength, than the body of the lion; of ubiquity, than the wings of the bird. These winged human-headed lions were not idle creations,...
Seite 227 - 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.
Seite 270 - 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.
Seite 323 - 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...
Seite 41 - Hasten, O Bey," exclaimed one of them — " 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 oft', without further words, in the direction of their tents.
Seite 276 - Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings.
Seite 93 - 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.
Seite 42 - ... the Arabs had been amazed and terrified at this apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well have belonged to one of those fearful beings which are pictured in the traditions of the country, as appearing to mortals, slowly ascending from the regions below.
Seite 272 - And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.