Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers, and an Inquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient AssyriansPutnam, 1853 - 695 páginas |
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Agha alabaster Amadiyah amongst ancient animals appears Arabs Armenia Asia Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Baghdad bas-reliefs Beder Khan British Museum brought building built carried castle centre Chaldæans chamber character chariot chief Christian colors conjecture cuneiform desert Diodorus Siculus discovered dynasty early edifice Egypt Egyptian entrance eunuch Euphrates evidently excavations feet formed fragments frequently gold Greek hand head Herodotus horsemen horses inhabitants inscriptions Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurds lion lower ments Mesopotamia monuments Mosul mound mountains Nestorian Nimroud Nineveh Ninus northwest palace ornaments palace of Nimroud Pasha period Persian plain priests principal probably remains represented resembling river round rubbish ruins sacred scarcely sculptures Semiramis Shammar Sheikh Nasr side similar Sinjar slabs Sofuk stone tablet tents Tigris tion Tiyari Tkhoma tomb traces trees trenches tribe Unsculptured upper valley vases village walls warriors whilst winged bulls winged figures women workmen Yezidis
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Página 281 - 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.
Página 219 - And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, And ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead: Whose kingdom shall have no end.
Página 76 - I used to contemplate for hours these mysterious emblems, and muse over their intent and history. What more noble forms could have ushered the people into the temple of their gods ? What more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature, by men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their conception of the wisdom, power, and ubiquity of a Supreme Being ? They could find no better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man ; of strength, than the body...
Página 76 - Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
Página 235 - ... present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
Página 58 - Siwas," returned he, immediately understanding my meaning, "I had Mussulmans to deal with, and there was tanzimat *, but here we have only Kurds and Arabs, and Wallah ! they are beasts. No, I cannot allow you to proceed ; you are my dearest and most intimate friend; if anything happens to you, what grief should I not suffer ; your life is more valuable than old stones ; besides, the responsibility would fall upon my head.
Página 288 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Página 343 - They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Página 209 - ... wood-work. Square openings in the ceilings of the chambers admitted the light of day. A pleasing shadow was thrown over the sculptured walls, and gave a majestic expression to the human features of the colossal forms which guarded the entrances. Through these apertures was seen the bright blue of...
Página 29 - ... has left the land where nature is still lovely, where, in his mind's eye, he can rebuild the temple, or the theatre, half doubting whether they would have made a more grateful impression upon the senses than the ruin before him. He is now at a loss to give any form to the rude heaps upon which he is gazing. Those of whose works they are the remains, unlike the Roman and the Greek, have left no visible traces of their civilization or of their arts : their influence has long since passed away.