Travels in Mesopotamia, المجلد 1H. Colburn, 1827 - 571 من الصفحات |
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... houses were distinguished by a high pointed dome of brick - work , rising from the square of their base . of their base . We lost sight of these , how- ever , as we ascended from this place of encampment over a bare rising ground , and ...
... houses were distinguished by a high pointed dome of brick - work , rising from the square of their base . of their base . We lost sight of these , how- ever , as we ascended from this place of encampment over a bare rising ground , and ...
الصفحة 9
... houses being flat - roofed , with terraces . As we stopped at this place to drink milk , we had an opportunity of seeing the method followed by its inhabitants in making butter . The milk is first put into a goat's skin , without being ...
... houses being flat - roofed , with terraces . As we stopped at this place to drink milk , we had an opportunity of seeing the method followed by its inhabitants in making butter . The milk is first put into a goat's skin , without being ...
الصفحة 12
... houses all flat - roofed . At nine , we reached Shahaboor , a large inhabited village ; and , as the caravan passed directly through it , most of the passengers halted without alighting , when all who desired it were served by the ...
... houses all flat - roofed . At nine , we reached Shahaboor , a large inhabited village ; and , as the caravan passed directly through it , most of the passengers halted without alighting , when all who desired it were served by the ...
الصفحة 15
... houses . The chief himself dwelt in one of the former , of a very large size , supported by sixteen small poles , in four rows of four * The habit of chaunting rude songs , on occasions of joy or of danger , has , we find , prevailed ...
... houses . The chief himself dwelt in one of the former , of a very large size , supported by sixteen small poles , in four rows of four * The habit of chaunting rude songs , on occasions of joy or of danger , has , we find , prevailed ...
الصفحة 16
... houses , white - washed on the outside . In another hour we reached a third village , the people of which sold dried black raisins and tobacco , by the way - side , to the passengers of the caravan , and gave , liberally , of milk and ...
... houses , white - washed on the outside . In another hour we reached a third village , the people of which sold dried black raisins and tobacco , by the way - side , to the passengers of the caravan , and gave , liberally , of milk and ...
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Aleppo ancient appearance Arabs Arbela arch Arrian Babylon Bagdad banks bazārs Belus Benjamin of Tudela bricks building built called camels caravan caravanserai castle centre chief chiefly Christians colour court Ctesiphon D'Anville Desert Diarbekr distance dress dwellings east eastern Edessa edifice Egypt encamped Euphrates feet fifty gardens gate going ground Hadjee halted height Herodotus Hillah hills horses hour hundred inhabitants inscriptions journey khan Koords l'Euphrate le Tigre Mardin masonry Memoir Mesopotamia miles minarets Mohammedan mosque mounds mountains Mousul nearly night Nineveh Nisibeen Nisibis observed Orfah palace party Pasha passed Persian piastres plain portion present qu'il remains Rennel Rich river road Roman ruins says seemed seen Seleucia Sheikh side Sinjar square stadia stone Strabo stream summit sun-set Syria Tartars temple tent thought thousand Tigre Tigris tomb towers town travellers Turkish Turks village Wahabis walls whole Yezeedis Yézidis
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الصفحة 417 - 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 303 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
الصفحة 230 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him : but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. 25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
الصفحة 70 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to -go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
الصفحة 428 - 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 303 - The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, And of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: And there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases ; And there is none end of their corpses ; they stumble upon their corpses...
الصفحة 441 - 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 229 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him; and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, ' Give this man place ;' and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
الصفحة 309 - 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 the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it...
الصفحة 19 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.