With Appendix Observations on the remains of ancient Egyptian grandeur and superstition1816 |
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... says this writer , “ about a quarter of a league from the Euphrates , appears a heap of ruined buildings , like a huge mountain , the materials of which are so confounded together , that one knows not what to make of it . Its figure is ...
... says this writer , “ about a quarter of a league from the Euphrates , appears a heap of ruined buildings , like a huge mountain , the materials of which are so confounded together , that one knows not what to make of it . Its figure is ...
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... say Babel was by a tempest from Heaven . From Della Valle's discovery and description of it , it is generally called Della Valle's Ruin , which the reader will please to bear in mind , as it will frequently be so denominated in the ...
... say Babel was by a tempest from Heaven . From Della Valle's discovery and description of it , it is generally called Della Valle's Ruin , which the reader will please to bear in mind , as it will frequently be so denominated in the ...
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... says it could never have been supposed to be the work of human hands , had it not been proved to be so by the layers of bricks , in regular order , burned in the fire , cemented with bitumen , and intermixed with osiers . He observed ...
... says it could never have been supposed to be the work of human hands , had it not been proved to be so by the layers of bricks , in regular order , burned in the fire , cemented with bitumen , and intermixed with osiers . He observed ...
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... the side walls of the passage . It is half full of brackish water ( probably rain water impregnated with nitre , in filtering through the ruins , which are all very productive of it ) and the workmen say that some way 13.
... the side walls of the passage . It is half full of brackish water ( probably rain water impregnated with nitre , in filtering through the ruins , which are all very productive of it ) and the workmen say that some way 13.
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Thomas Maurice. of it ) and the workmen say that some way on it is high enough for a horseman to pass upright : as much as I saw of it , it was near seven feet in height , and its course to the south . This is described by Beau- champ ...
Thomas Maurice. of it ) and the workmen say that some way on it is high enough for a horseman to pass upright : as much as I saw of it , it was near seven feet in height , and its course to the south . This is described by Beau- champ ...
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Page 28 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 26 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 66 - 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 118 - And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Page 118 - And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Page 60 - Judah; and he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; and to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
Page 117 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Page 64 - Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words." Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Page 26 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Page 68 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.