Travels in Mesopotamia, Volumen1Colburn, 1827 |
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... White 346 ... ... ... ... 11 Crossing the Tigris , and first approach to Diarbekr Jackson 12 Rural Celebration of an Eastern Marriage by a Vil- 364 lage Feast While 482 Subsect of Drawing . 13 Ancient Greek and Roman Remains CHAP.
... White 346 ... ... ... ... 11 Crossing the Tigris , and first approach to Diarbekr Jackson 12 Rural Celebration of an Eastern Marriage by a Vil- 364 lage Feast While 482 Subsect of Drawing . 13 Ancient Greek and Roman Remains CHAP.
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James Silk Buckingham. Subsect of Drawing . 13 Ancient Greek and Roman Remains on the ruined site of Nisibeen Engravera . Pur Byfield 448 VOL . II . 1 Caravan rushing , by night , to a deep and rapid river Bonner 2 Perspective of a ...
James Silk Buckingham. Subsect of Drawing . 13 Ancient Greek and Roman Remains on the ruined site of Nisibeen Engravera . Pur Byfield 448 VOL . II . 1 Caravan rushing , by night , to a deep and rapid river Bonner 2 Perspective of a ...
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... Roman Castle , † said to be four hours ' * Genesis , chap . xv . v . 18. — The Kennizzites , spoken of in the next verse , may possibly be the great tribe of the Annazies , who occupy all the western banks of the Euphrates , and the ...
... Roman Castle , † said to be four hours ' * Genesis , chap . xv . v . 18. — The Kennizzites , spoken of in the next verse , may possibly be the great tribe of the Annazies , who occupy all the western banks of the Euphrates , and the ...
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... Roman work . There are towers at the angles , and other parts ; and some portions of the wall climb over very steep acclivities , as at Antioch . Through all parts of it are loop - holes for arrows , and a battlement going all around ...
... Roman work . There are towers at the angles , and other parts ; and some portions of the wall climb over very steep acclivities , as at Antioch . Through all parts of it are loop - holes for arrows , and a battlement going all around ...
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... Roman age . Around the battlements , I ob- served , also , a sort of frieze , formed of large fleur - de - lys reversed ; but whether this orna- ment had any reference to the defeat of the Christian powers , who bore it among their em ...
... Roman age . Around the battlements , I ob- served , also , a sort of frieze , formed of large fleur - de - lys reversed ; but whether this orna- ment had any reference to the defeat of the Christian powers , who bore it among their em ...
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Abraham afterwards Aleppo ancient appearance Arabs arch arms Bagdad banks basalt bazārs Bedouin Beer buildings called camels camp caravan caravanserai castle chief chiefly Christians colour court covered d'une dance Dara Desert Diarbekr distance dressed dwellings east eastern Edessa encamped Euphrates feet fifty foot friends going ground Hadjee Hadjee's halted hands Haran hills horses hour houses hundred inhabitants inscriptions Janissaries journey Khan kind Koords l'Euphrate le Tigre Mardin masonry ment Mesopotamia miles Mohammedan mosque Mount Taurus mountains mounted Mousul nearly night Nisibeen Nisibis occasion Orfah party Pasha passed Patriarch Persian persons piastres plain portion prayers present qu'ils river road rock Roman ruined Saracenic seated seemed seen Sheikh Shereefs side Sinjar soil stone stream sun-set Syria tarboosh Taurus tent thought Tigris tion town travelled trees tribe Turcomans Turkish Turks village Wahabis wall whole women Yézidis
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Página 325 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him : but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. 25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
Página 109 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to -go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Página 324 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him; and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, ' Give this man place ;' and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
Página 29 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Página 29 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground...
Página 324 - But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
Página 379 - 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.
Página 91 - She told me the two girls at her feet were her daughters, though she appeared- too young to be their mother. Her fair maids were ranged below the sofa, to the number of twenty, and put me in mind of the pictures of the ancient nymphs. 1 did not think all nature could have furnished such a scene of beauty.
Página 148 - Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3.
Página 91 - ... below the sofa, to the number of twenty, and put me in mind of the pictures of the ancient nymphs. I did not think all nature could have furnished such a scene of beauty. She made them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied with their voices, while the others danced by turns. This dance was very different from what I had seen before.