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Page 67
... Assyria . In many things , also , it resembled the Indian faith : it held the doctrine of the transmigration of souls ( though this dogma was confined to the priesthood ) , and its idols and sculptured excavations were similar to those ...
... Assyria . In many things , also , it resembled the Indian faith : it held the doctrine of the transmigration of souls ( though this dogma was confined to the priesthood ) , and its idols and sculptured excavations were similar to those ...
Page 84
... Assyrians , Egyptians , Persians , Afri- cans , Greeks , Romans , and Jews . The cross was composed of two pieces of wood . The piece which was placed erect in the ground was about eleven feet in length . Within a little more than a ...
... Assyrians , Egyptians , Persians , Afri- cans , Greeks , Romans , and Jews . The cross was composed of two pieces of wood . The piece which was placed erect in the ground was about eleven feet in length . Within a little more than a ...
Page 94
... the traditions of the people , and he felt strange longings come over him to explore the buried history of Assyria . In 1842 , he returned through this interesting country , and found that M. Botta 94 NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS .
... the traditions of the people , and he felt strange longings come over him to explore the buried history of Assyria . In 1842 , he returned through this interesting country , and found that M. Botta 94 NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS .
Page 95
... Assyrian city , and Mr Layard , accordingly , returned with joy to the desert to commence his experiments . Mr Layard had to begin his labours with the utmost caution and secresy , in order to avoid the positive interdict of the bigoted ...
... Assyrian city , and Mr Layard , accordingly , returned with joy to the desert to commence his experiments . Mr Layard had to begin his labours with the utmost caution and secresy , in order to avoid the positive interdict of the bigoted ...
Page 98
... Assyrian ruin ; a vast shapeless mass , now covered with grass , and showing scarcely any traces of the work of man , except where the winter rains had formed ravines down its almost perpendicular sides , and had thus laid open its ...
... Assyrian ruin ; a vast shapeless mass , now covered with grass , and showing scarcely any traces of the work of man , except where the winter rains had formed ravines down its almost perpendicular sides , and had thus laid open its ...
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Page 31 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 251 - But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Page 203 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Page 7 - And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Page 28 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 250 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 244 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 268 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Page 31 - ... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?