Historical Researches Into the Politics, Intercourse, and Trade of the Principal Nations of Antiquity, Nide 2D.A. Talboys, 1833 |
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Sivu 411 - Palmyra urbs nobilis situ, divitiis soli et aquis amoenis, vasto undique ambitu harenis includit agros ac velut terris exempta a rerum natura, privata sorte inter duo imperia summa Romanorum Parthorumque et, prima in discordia semper utrimque cura...
Sivu 126 - And they said, Go to, let us build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Sivu 73 - Ophir was the general name for the rich countries of the south, lying on the African, Arabian, and Indian coasts, as far as at that time known.
Sivu 140 - Asia, must be reckoned as another advantage, especially when taken in connection with its vicinity to the two great rivers, the continuation, as it were, of this great highway, and opening a communication with the nations dwelling on the Euxine and the Caspian. Thus favoured by Nature, this country necessarily became the central point where the merchants of nearly all the nations of the civilised world assembled ; and such, we are informed by history, it remained, so long as the international commerce...
Sivu 143 - A revolution then took place in Asia, similar to that which Cyrus afterwards effected. A nomad people, under the name of Chaldean*, descending from the mountains of Taurus and Caucasus, overwhelmed southern Asia, and made themselves masters of the Syrian and Babylonian plains.
Sivu 136 - ... and in seasons remarkably favourable, it sometimes amounts to three hundred. The ear of the wheat, as well as the barley, is four digits broad. But the immense height to which the cenchrus and sesamum stalks ' grow, although I have witnessed it myself, I dare not mention, lest those who have not visited this country should disbelieve my report.
Sivu 262 - opposite," — that is, in the same longitude as the Massageta-. 7 The remark of Heeren, that "in this tradition we can perceive a ray of truth, inasmuch as we know that the polar regions continue for six months, more or less, without having the. light of the sun
Sivu 155 - Porter found it impossible to chip off the smallest piece ; and for this reason none of the inscriptions can be copied, as they are always on the lower surface of the bricks. It is rent from the top nearly half-way to the bottom ; and at its foot...
Sivu 271 - Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants : they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
Sivu 9 - Forming, as it were, one unbroken city, extending along the whole line of coast and over the islands ; and which, with the harbors and seaports, and the numerous fleets lying within them, must have afforded altogether a spectacle scarcely to be equalled in the world, and must have excited in the stranger who visited them, the highest idea of the opulence, the power and the enterprising spirit of the inhabitants.