Nineveh and Persepolis: An Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the Recent Researches in Those Countries, Nide 18A. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1850 - 436 sivua |
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Sivu 8
... Ctesias , have attributed it to Semiramis ; but her reign , if not altogether mythical , must have been at least two thousand years later than the first foundation of Babylon . It is worthy of remark , that the marginal note before ...
... Ctesias , have attributed it to Semiramis ; but her reign , if not altogether mythical , must have been at least two thousand years later than the first foundation of Babylon . It is worthy of remark , that the marginal note before ...
Sivu 11
... Ctesias , though , on the whole , doubtless true , hardly admit of accurate chronological arrangement . Their historical myths rest almost exclusively on the names of Semiramis , Ninus , and Belus , suggesting indeed a strong ...
... Ctesias , though , on the whole , doubtless true , hardly admit of accurate chronological arrangement . Their historical myths rest almost exclusively on the names of Semiramis , Ninus , and Belus , suggesting indeed a strong ...
Sivu 12
... Ctesias and Diodorus placed it on the Euphrates , which could not have been its true position , and which is hardly explained by the supposition that there were in ancient times two cities bearing the name of Ninus . Herodotus , Arrian ...
... Ctesias and Diodorus placed it on the Euphrates , which could not have been its true position , and which is hardly explained by the supposition that there were in ancient times two cities bearing the name of Ninus . Herodotus , Arrian ...
Sivu 14
... Ctesias says that Teutamus , the twenty - third king of Nineveh , sent Memnon with a body of troops to aid the Trojans . But what is most remarkable is , that it appears to have escaped the notice of the ancients that there must have ...
... Ctesias says that Teutamus , the twenty - third king of Nineveh , sent Memnon with a body of troops to aid the Trojans . But what is most remarkable is , that it appears to have escaped the notice of the ancients that there must have ...
Sivu 15
... Ctesias and Berosus ; the former of whom founded his history upon extracts from Babylonian annals . Neither of these authors has been fortunate enough to transmit their original writings to our times . In their place exist a host of ...
... Ctesias and Berosus ; the former of whom founded his history upon extracts from Babylonian annals . Neither of these authors has been fortunate enough to transmit their original writings to our times . In their place exist a host of ...
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Achæmenian Alp Arslan ancient appears Arabs Armenia army Asia Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Baghdad bas-reliefs Behistun Botta bricks building bull called capital celebrated century Chaldæans Chaldee character conqueror conquest Ctesias Cuneiform curious Cyrus Darius Darius Hystaspes doubt dynasty early East Ecbatana edifice Egypt emperor empire Euphrates excavations face feet figure Greek Gustasp hand head Herodotus horse Hystaspes inscriptions Istakhr khalif Khorsabád Khosru king Koyunjik labours language Layard length lion Major Rawlinson Medes Media mentioned monarch monuments Mosul mound mountain Muhammedan nations Nebuchadnezzar Nimroud Nineveh original Ormazd palace period Persepolis Persian Persian Empire plain present preserved princes probably provinces reign remains remarkable represented resembling river rock Roman round royal ruins Sassanian says sculptures Shahpúr side Sir R. K. Porter slabs stone Strabo supposed Syria tablets temple throne Timúr tion tomb tower travellers tribes visited walls whole winged writing Xenophon Xerxes Zoroaster
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Sivu 27 - Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Sivu 6 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
Sivu 32 - The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings : I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
Sivu 292 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man and the face of a lion, on the right side : and they four had the face of an ox on the left side ; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Sivu 220 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Sivu 34 - And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: And they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; City against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Sivu 27 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Sivu 270 - Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
Sivu 16 - For he was wiser than all men ; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol : and his fame was in all nations round about.
Sivu 101 - Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all : and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.