The Euphrates and the Tigris: A Narrative of Discovery and Adventure : with a Description of the Ruins of Babylon and NinevehT. Nelson & Sons, 1879 - 206 sider |
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Side 13
... tradition of the Biblical Babel . A lofty tower , he says , was erected on the plain where Babylon afterwards spread its palaces and gardens , but the winds assisted the gods in destroying it . Its ruins , he adds , still exist at ...
... tradition of the Biblical Babel . A lofty tower , he says , was erected on the plain where Babylon afterwards spread its palaces and gardens , but the winds assisted the gods in destroying it . Its ruins , he adds , still exist at ...
Side 31
... tradition in all its forms ; and the outline of the scene in the Book of Daniel stands out distinctly from the shadowy background , and throws over the whole narrative a fiery glow . The catastrophe with which the history of Baby lon ...
... tradition in all its forms ; and the outline of the scene in the Book of Daniel stands out distinctly from the shadowy background , and throws over the whole narrative a fiery glow . The catastrophe with which the history of Baby lon ...
Side 64
... tradition of Berosus , is the oldest of the cities of the world . Berosus , in his account of the Deluge , which cor- responds in many respects with the Biblical narra- tive , says , that Xisithrus , the Chaldean Noah , warned by the ...
... tradition of Berosus , is the oldest of the cities of the world . Berosus , in his account of the Deluge , which cor- responds in many respects with the Biblical narra- tive , says , that Xisithrus , the Chaldean Noah , warned by the ...
Side 67
... About half way up is an entrance - door , probably the portal of the tomb , which an Arab tradition asserts to have been that of Nimrud himself . The name of Nimrud overshadows all Babylonia 68 WILD BEASTS OF THE FOREST . and Assyria ,
... About half way up is an entrance - door , probably the portal of the tomb , which an Arab tradition asserts to have been that of Nimrud himself . The name of Nimrud overshadows all Babylonia 68 WILD BEASTS OF THE FOREST . and Assyria ,
Side 69
... Nimrud sallied forth ; and it was because of his suc- cess and his prowess as a hunter in the primeval forest that his name has become the nucleus of so many fables and traditions . B CHAPTER JI . THE COURSE OF THE EUPHRATES .
... Nimrud sallied forth ; and it was because of his suc- cess and his prowess as a hunter in the primeval forest that his name has become the nucleus of so many fables and traditions . B CHAPTER JI . THE COURSE OF THE EUPHRATES .
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Populære avsnitt
Side 36 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Side 32 - In that same hour and hall, The fingers of a hand Came forth against the wall, And wrote as if on sand : The fingers of a man ; — A solitary hand Along the letters ran, And traced them like a wand.
Side 35 - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end...
Side 35 - A captive in the land, A stranger and a youth, He heard the King's command, He saw that writing's truth. The lamps around were bright, The prophecy in view; He read it on that night, — The morrow proved it true. " Belshazzar's grave is made, His kingdom...
Side 15 - 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...
Side 122 - WHEN the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free In the silken sail of infancy, The tide of time flow'd back with me, The forward-flowing tide of time ; And many a sheeny summer-morn, Adown the Tigris I was borne, By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold, High-walled gardens green and old ; True Mussulman was I and sworn, For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.
Side 20 - And every ship-master, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, and cried, when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying ; What city is like unto this great city...
Side 160 - The luxury and civilization of a mighty nation had given place to the wretchedness and ignorance of a few half-barbarous tribes. The wealth of temples, and the riches of great cities, had been succeeded by ruins and shapeless heaps of earth. Above the spacious hall in which they stood, the plough had passed and the corn now waved. Egypt has monuments no less ancient and no less wonderful ; but they have stood forth for ages to testify her early power and renown...
Side 20 - And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk...
Side 36 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, And dragons...