Personal Narrative of Travels in Babylonia, Assyria, Media, and Scythia, in the Year 1824, Volume 1Henry Colburn, 1827 |
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Aboo Nasir Aga Saikeis Alligator amongst ancient appearance Arab Arabian Nights arch armed Armenian arrived ARTEMITA Assyria Babel Babylon Babylonian Bagdad banks Bee-asis boat bricks building built Bussorah Caliph called Calneh Captain Alexander caravanserai chief Chosroes colour covered crowd Ctesiphon curious custom dancing Desert distance dress encampments Euphrates European feet high females fire formed Futteh gardens Giafar governor guard Herodotus Hilleh honour horses hour hundred Illyauts Imaum inhabitants Janizaries jereed journey Kermanshah Kisra Koorna Koote land Mahometan March Meerza mention miles mode morning mound Muscat natives numerous observed ourselves palace party Pasha Pasha of Bagdad passed Persian piastres present Prince remains river round ruins Scripture Seleucia servants Sheikh Shiahs ship side square Strabo Syyud tents Tigris tion told tomb Tower of Babel town traveller tribe Turk Turkish vessels village walls wind women Zobeir
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Page 144 - Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Page 293 - And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah. and in the places round about Jerusalem, them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
Page 200 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Page 129 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 254 - And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side. 36 And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
Page 245 - When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Page 209 - Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Page 56 - And he said, Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? And the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot ; for the place whereon thou standest is holy.
Page 139 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 184 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.