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... beautiful clearness and precision the manners and customs , occupations and amusements , arts and arms , of a nation that was in its grave before recognised profane history began her task . These , with many other relics found in the ...
... beautiful clearness and precision the manners and customs , occupations and amusements , arts and arms , of a nation that was in its grave before recognised profane history began her task . These , with many other relics found in the ...
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... beautiful reasonings on the Assyrian and Persian Palaces , this volume is in- debted for some important light on the architecture of the period and region . The works of Mr. Layard and M. Botta require a more detailed acknowledgment ...
... beautiful reasonings on the Assyrian and Persian Palaces , this volume is in- debted for some important light on the architecture of the period and region . The works of Mr. Layard and M. Botta require a more detailed acknowledgment ...
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... beautiful Lake Van , the ancient Arsissa , and then stretch away towards the south - east in a rugged region of precipitous peaks and deep romantic glens and valleys . This is the region of Koordistan , the home of the wild , savage ...
... beautiful Lake Van , the ancient Arsissa , and then stretch away towards the south - east in a rugged region of precipitous peaks and deep romantic glens and valleys . This is the region of Koordistan , the home of the wild , savage ...
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... beautiful flowering plants and bulbs of our gardens have their native country here ; the daphne , the myrtle , the oleander , the guelder rose , the tree pink , the clematis , the jasmine , the honeysuckle , and the rhododendron , are ...
... beautiful flowering plants and bulbs of our gardens have their native country here ; the daphne , the myrtle , the oleander , the guelder rose , the tree pink , the clematis , the jasmine , the honeysuckle , and the rhododendron , are ...
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... beautiful animal , and we have modern evidence that it inhabits Mount Ararat . Tournefort states that the sides of this mountain , even almost up to the line of perpetual snow , are infested by tigers , and declares that he saw them ...
... beautiful animal , and we have modern evidence that it inhabits Mount Ararat . Tournefort states that the sides of this mountain , even almost up to the line of perpetual snow , are infested by tigers , and declares that he saw them ...
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Page 73 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 513 - And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts : but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Page 85 - Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Page 112 - And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Page 103 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Page 402 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, "Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
Page 127 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 487 - The King's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
Page 72 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand; This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 284 - And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.