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... less fertile as it recedes from the mountains , and merges at last into a desert , with no traces of cities or of settled habitations . Yet even this sandy waste is varied by a few fertile spots . The site of Palmy'ra , " Queen of the ...
... less fertile as it recedes from the mountains , and merges at last into a desert , with no traces of cities or of settled habitations . Yet even this sandy waste is varied by a few fertile spots . The site of Palmy'ra , " Queen of the ...
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... less than two hun- dred fold the seed sown , and in favorable seasons , with three hundred fold . We shall not be surprised , therefore , to learn that Babylonia was , from the earliest times , the seat of populous cities , crowded with ...
... less than two hun- dred fold the seed sown , and in favorable seasons , with three hundred fold . We shall not be surprised , therefore , to learn that Babylonia was , from the earliest times , the seat of populous cities , crowded with ...
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... less warlike than his ancestors . The time of his reign is ascertained by an eclipse of the sun , which the inscriptions place in his ninth year , and which astrono- mers know to have occurred June 15 , 763 B. C. After Asshur - likh ...
... less warlike than his ancestors . The time of his reign is ascertained by an eclipse of the sun , which the inscriptions place in his ninth year , and which astrono- mers know to have occurred June 15 , 763 B. C. After Asshur - likh ...
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... less alert for astronomical observations than their predecessors , the Chaldæans . In fact , the brilliant clearness of their heavens early led the inhabitants of this region to a study of the stars . The sky was mapped out in ...
... less alert for astronomical observations than their predecessors , the Chaldæans . In fact , the brilliant clearness of their heavens early led the inhabitants of this region to a study of the stars . The sky was mapped out in ...
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... less constantly remembered , were the little Cabi'ri , whose images formed the figure - heads of Phoenician ships . The seat of their worship was at Berytus . 70. The Phoenicians were less idolatrous than the Egyptians , Greeks , or ...
... less constantly remembered , were the little Cabi'ri , whose images formed the figure - heads of Phoenician ships . The seat of their worship was at Berytus . 70. The Phoenicians were less idolatrous than the Egyptians , Greeks , or ...
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Page 27 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 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? 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; the kingdom is departed from thee.
Page 27 - Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment : and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Page 27 - And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou...
Page 27 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 44 - The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
Page 27 - ... but When his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the Wild asses ; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of Heaven...
Page 187 - King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia and the islands of Clazomenae and Cyprus should belong to him. He also thinks it just to leave all the other Grecian cities, both small and great, independent, — except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros, which are to belong to Athens, as of old.
Page 40 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 27 - And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation...
Page 62 - Osiris, his coming upon earth for the benefit of mankind, with the titles of " manifester of good and truth," his being put to death by the malice of the evil one ; his burial and resurrection, and his becoming the judge of the dead, are the most interesting features of the Egyptian religion. This was the great mystery ; and this myth and his worship were of the earliest times, and universal in Egypt.