Travels in Mesopotamia, المجلد 1H. Colburn, 1827 - 571 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 26
... walls , one on each side ; it was probably an old well or fountain , as the tombs of the Mohammedans are mostly enclosed . We went up from hence to the northward , along the west bank of the river , for another half hour , over a flat ...
... walls , one on each side ; it was probably an old well or fountain , as the tombs of the Mohammedans are mostly enclosed . We went up from hence to the northward , along the west bank of the river , for another half hour , over a flat ...
الصفحة 28
... walls , the goods were there landed for examination . This occasioned us another long detention , so that it was nearly evening before all was ended , when we went up through the town , and , going out of its eastern gate , encamped ...
... walls , the goods were there landed for examination . This occasioned us another long detention , so that it was nearly evening before all was ended , when we went up through the town , and , going out of its eastern gate , encamped ...
الصفحة 33
... walls of the houses form its defence on that face ; and on the other three sides , towards the land , it is encompassed by a good wall of Saracenic work , disfigured in some places by later Mohammedan repairs . As this has been , no ...
... walls of the houses form its defence on that face ; and on the other three sides , towards the land , it is encompassed by a good wall of Saracenic work , disfigured in some places by later Mohammedan repairs . As this has been , no ...
الصفحة 34
... walls appear to have been built of a hard yellow stone , of which there is only a small portion in the immediate ... wall climb over very steep acclivities , as at Antioch . Through all parts of it are loop - holes for arrows , and a ...
... walls appear to have been built of a hard yellow stone , of which there is only a small portion in the immediate ... wall climb over very steep acclivities , as at Antioch . Through all parts of it are loop - holes for arrows , and a ...
الصفحة 35
... walls , like guns projecting through the closed port of a ship's side ; and on all these were in-- scriptions in relief , for which purpose they seemed to have been placed there . In the oldest buildings this is the use to which they ...
... walls , like guns projecting through the closed port of a ship's side ; and on all these were in-- scriptions in relief , for which purpose they seemed to have been placed there . In the oldest buildings this is the use to which they ...
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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.