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 1 Sir Austen Henry Layard Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1849 |
Nineveh and its remains: with an account of a visit of the ..., Volym 1 Sir Austen Henry Layard Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1850 |
Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean ... Austen Henry Layard Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1850 |
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Sidan 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!
Sidan 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...
Sidan 375 - 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.
Sidan 425 - ... 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...
Sidan 303 - 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.
Sidan 452 - Now shall ye see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear.
Sidan 465 - 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.
Sidan 464 - And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides ; and they four had their faces and their wings.
Sidan 465 - 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.
Sidan 379 - 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, 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 |
| Författare | Sir Austen Henry Layard |
| Utgåva | 2 |
| Utgivare | J. Murray, 1849 |
| Original från | Harvard University |
| Digitaliserad | 21 okt 2005 |
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