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... Persian Palaces , this volume is in- debted for some important light on the architecture of the period and region . The works of Mr. Layard and M. Botta require a more detailed acknowledgment . Besides the ori- ginal monuments in vi ...
... Persian Palaces , this volume is in- debted for some important light on the architecture of the period and region . The works of Mr. Layard and M. Botta require a more detailed acknowledgment . Besides the ori- ginal monuments in vi ...
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... PERSIAN KING AND LION 407 ASSAULT ON LION .... 409 STRANGLED LION 415 WILD URUS .... 417 BULL HUNT 420 LION AND BULL ... PERSIA 486 HOUSES 493 EGYPTIAN HOUSE 494 TENT ..... TABLES STOOLS 496 497 498 PAGE DIPHROS . 499 COUCHES ... 500 ...
... PERSIAN KING AND LION 407 ASSAULT ON LION .... 409 STRANGLED LION 415 WILD URUS .... 417 BULL HUNT 420 LION AND BULL ... PERSIA 486 HOUSES 493 EGYPTIAN HOUSE 494 TENT ..... TABLES STOOLS 496 497 498 PAGE DIPHROS . 499 COUCHES ... 500 ...
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... Persian Gulf , and between the Black Sea and the Levant . The eastern portion of this region is occu- pied by Affghanistan , the centre by Persia , the west by Turkey . For the most part its surface is capable of cultivation ; and ...
... Persian Gulf , and between the Black Sea and the Levant . The eastern portion of this region is occu- pied by Affghanistan , the centre by Persia , the west by Turkey . For the most part its surface is capable of cultivation ; and ...
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... Persian Gulf this great plateau of Iran , which had averaged a breadth of nearly 500 miles , becomes much nar- rower , scarcely retaining half that width ; but at the same time it assumes a loftier elevation . An Alpine region commences ...
... Persian Gulf this great plateau of Iran , which had averaged a breadth of nearly 500 miles , becomes much nar- rower , scarcely retaining half that width ; but at the same time it assumes a loftier elevation . An Alpine region commences ...
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... Persian Gulf . * This basin , at its upper part , has a breadth of 7 ° of longitude , from about 36 ° E. to 431 ° E. , but narrows towards its lower extremity , where its width is not more than 140 , from 48 ° E. to 49 ° E. Into the ...
... Persian Gulf . * This basin , at its upper part , has a breadth of 7 ° of longitude , from about 36 ° E. to 431 ° E. , but narrows towards its lower extremity , where its width is not more than 140 , from 48 ° E. to 49 ° E. Into the ...
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Sida 109 - 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 59 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Sida 441 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, And cried through the lattice, 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Sida 461 - And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts : but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Sida 58 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Sida 460 - Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Sida 78 - Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, and have cast their gods into the fire : for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone ; therefore they have destroyed them.
Sida 71 - Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Sida 123 - I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house. Also I had great possessions of great and small cattle, above all that were in Jerusalem before me. I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings ; and of the provinces I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts ; so I was great and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem.
Sida 96 - And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.