Personal narrative of a journey from India to England, Volume 2 |
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afternoon ancient Aniran appearance APPENDIX Araxes Armenians Arrian arrived Astrakhan astrological attended Baal Babylon Babylonian Bakoo banks bastinado Be-sitoon beautiful begged breakfast called caravanserai Caspian Sea Chosroes Commandant Cossack costume court curiosity cylinder distance dress Durbund Ecbatana encampment English European feet female figures fish formed French officers garden Hamadan horses hundred Illyauts inhabitants inscription Isidorus of Charax journey July Kermanshah Khan King King's Kizliar Mæana Mahometan Major Willock Meerza Mehmaundaur ment miles Mohumud Moolah morning moun mountain mounted naphtha natives nearly neighbourhood night Nishney numerous observed occupied palace Pasha passed Persian person plain present PRINCE GOVERNOR Prince's river road Royal ruins rukum Russian Sarepta sculptures seated sent servant Sheesha Shirvan side stone Strabo Suleiman Khan Sultanieh Tabriz Tartar Teheraun temple tion told took town traveller tribe valley Veaux versts village walls wings
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Page 324 - 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 325 - 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 320 - 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 315 - 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 317 - 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 325 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 306 - 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 323 - And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.
Page 240 - 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 326 - 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 Sacae, are the people from whom the descent of the Saxons may be inferred, with the least violation of probability.