Travels in Chaldæa, Including a Journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, Performed on Foot in 1827H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 - 333 من الصفحات |
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... MEMOIR ON THE RUINS OF AHWAZ BABYLONIAN WRITING 237-268 269-286 287-290 . 291-312 313-320 An ITINERARY from BUSSORAH to the City of TABREEZ , or TAURUS • 321-333 LIST of JOURNEYS performed by the Author , in the Years 1826 , 1827 , and ...
... MEMOIR ON THE RUINS OF AHWAZ BABYLONIAN WRITING 237-268 269-286 287-290 . 291-312 313-320 An ITINERARY from BUSSORAH to the City of TABREEZ , or TAURUS • 321-333 LIST of JOURNEYS performed by the Author , in the Years 1826 , 1827 , and ...
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... here to remark , that Kinneir . has made the mouth of this river twenty miles below Koorna , whereas it is barely three . - Vide Kinneir's " Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire , ” p . 92 . 4 KOORNA . us to Koorna , the Apamea of B 2.
... here to remark , that Kinneir . has made the mouth of this river twenty miles below Koorna , whereas it is barely three . - Vide Kinneir's " Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire , ” p . 92 . 4 KOORNA . us to Koorna , the Apamea of B 2.
الصفحة 91
... Memoir of the Persian Empire , has given such a correct ac- count of this city , ( as also of the town of Hillah , on the Euphrates , ) that it would be presump- tion in me , and only engrossing the time and exhausting the patience of ...
... Memoir of the Persian Empire , has given such a correct ac- count of this city , ( as also of the town of Hillah , on the Euphrates , ) that it would be presump- tion in me , and only engrossing the time and exhausting the patience of ...
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... the number is not regulated . He has likewise made the circumference of the ruin one hundred feet less than it really is . - Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon , p . 41 . TULL AKERKOUF . 105 the bricks composing this colossal mass.
... the number is not regulated . He has likewise made the circumference of the ruin one hundred feet less than it really is . - Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon , p . 41 . TULL AKERKOUF . 105 the bricks composing this colossal mass.
الصفحة 172
... pile was once the seat of luxury and vice ; now abandoned to decay , and ex- hibiting a melancholy instance of the retribu- * See Rich's second Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon , page 29 . EXTENSIVE EMBANKMENTS . tion of Heaven . * 173 It.
... pile was once the seat of luxury and vice ; now abandoned to decay , and ex- hibiting a melancholy instance of the retribu- * See Rich's second Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon , page 29 . EXTENSIVE EMBANKMENTS . tion of Heaven . * 173 It.
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AHWAZ Akerkouf ancient antiquity appears Appendix Arabia Arabs Arrian Babel Babylon Babylonian BABYLONIAN WRITING Bagdad Basrah Belidian Belus Berosus Birs Nemroud bitumen boat breadth brickwork bridge building built called camel canal cement chap character composed crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon desert Diodorus Diodorus Siculus distance earth east eastern bank Euphrates extends face feet fifty fragments furlongs gates half heap height Herodotus Hillah HISTORY OF MODERN Hussein Pasha inhabitants inscriptions journey Kasr Kesra khaun king mass Mesopotamia miles MODERN BUSSORAH mosque mounds mountains Mujellibah natives Nimrod Nineveh Note palace Persian Persian Empire plain qu'il reeds remains remarkable Rich river road RUINS OF AHWAZ Sabean says Seleucia Seleucus Nicator Selman Semiramis Sheikh side situated spot square stone Strabo stream Tamarix temple of Belus thick Tigris tion tomb tower of Belus town traced traveller vases village wall western
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الصفحة 205 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
الصفحة 131 - 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...
الصفحة 164 - Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore : let them go and gather straw for themselves.
الصفحة 237 - Chaldee's 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 the owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons...
الصفحة 236 - 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. 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.
الصفحة 167 - Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
الصفحة 167 - Therefore the wild beasts of the desert, with the wild beasts of the islands, shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein : and it shall be no more inhabited for ever ; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
الصفحة 191 - 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...
الصفحة 195 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
الصفحة 32 - That which was torn of beasts, I brought not unto thee : I bare the loss of it ; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes.