Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers, and an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, Volym 2 |
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Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the ..., Volym 2 Austen Henry Layard Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1849 |
Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the ..., Volym 2 Austen Henry Layard Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1849 |
Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the ..., Volym 2 Austen Henry Layard Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1849 |
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Sida 188 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Sida 174 - 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...
Sida 372 - And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings.
Sida 399 - ... until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards...
Sida 299 - And all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver, it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Sida 426 - Now shall ye see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear.
Sida 441 - The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl : and they four had one likeness : and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
Sida 440 - And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides ; and they four had their faces and their wings.
Sida 441 - So I went in and saw : and behold every form of creeping things and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
Sida 375 - By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust shall cover thee ; thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter thy gates as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
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| Titel | Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers, and an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, Volym 2 Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers, and an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, Austen Henry Layard |
| Författare | Austen Henry Layard |
| Utgåva | 2 |
| Utgivare | J. Murray, 1849 |
| Original från | Harvard University |
| Digitaliserad | 21 okt 2005 |
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