Personal Narrative of Travels in Babylonia, Assyria, Media, and Scythia, in the Year 1824, Volume 2Henry Colburn, 1827 |
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Personal Narrative of Travels in Babylonia, Assyria, Media, and ..., Volume 2 George Thomas Earl of Albemarle Affichage du livre entier - 1827 |
Personal Narrative of Travels in Babylonia, Assyria, Media, and ..., Volume 2 George Thomas Earl of Albemarle Affichage du livre entier - 1827 |
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Page 322 - Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.
Page 315 - Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy : they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil ; for thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian...
Page 313 - And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us.
Page 318 - The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings ; I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
Page 304 - 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.
Page 238 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 323 - The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl...
Page 323 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Page 324 - The Saxons were a German or Teutonic, that is, a Gothic or Scythian tribe ; and of the various Scythian nations which have been recorded, the Sakai, or Sacse, are the people from whom the descent of the Saxons may be inferred, with the least violation of probability.
Page 325 - Strabo in another place ;§ and seems to give a geographical locality to our primeval ancestors, and to account for the Persian words that occur in the Saxon language, as they must have come into Armenia from the northern regions of Persia.