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... chariot shoots a wild bull ; before him a vulture - priest has pursued and caught by the tail a human - headed , winged lion , and is smiting him with a mace . The strange prey looks back and strives to escape , while another in the ...
... chariot shoots a wild bull ; before him a vulture - priest has pursued and caught by the tail a human - headed , winged lion , and is smiting him with a mace . The strange prey looks back and strives to escape , while another in the ...
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... chariot without horses , a camel , and men and eunuchs walking in procession , are also seen within the inclosure , but seem unconnected with the religious service . Primeval astronomy had placed the serpent in the skies , and saw it ...
... chariot without horses , a camel , and men and eunuchs walking in procession , are also seen within the inclosure , but seem unconnected with the religious service . Primeval astronomy had placed the serpent in the skies , and saw it ...
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... chariot , and was met by the high officers of the royal household . First came the cup - bearer , who presented his master with the prepared beverage , probably weak and sweet wine , or a drink analogous to the sherbet of the present ...
... chariot , and was met by the high officers of the royal household . First came the cup - bearer , who presented his master with the prepared beverage , probably weak and sweet wine , or a drink analogous to the sherbet of the present ...
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... CHARIOT PARASOL . sat on his throne within his royal halls it was beneath the grateful shadow of the parasol ; a circum- stance which singularly favours the conjecture of Mr. Layard that the Assyrian palaces were , at least in their ...
... CHARIOT PARASOL . sat on his throne within his royal halls it was beneath the grateful shadow of the parasol ; a circum- stance which singularly favours the conjecture of Mr. Layard that the Assyrian palaces were , at least in their ...
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... chariot , in which the monarch proceeded to battle , or to the scarcely less severe discipline of hunting savage beasts , had no seat , and was but little fitted for comfort or parade . In the car before us , however , he could sit at ...
... chariot , in which the monarch proceeded to battle , or to the scarcely less severe discipline of hunting savage beasts , had no seat , and was but little fitted for comfort or parade . In the car before us , however , he could sit at ...
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Page 264 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 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...
Page 236 - I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 178 - O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Page 2 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Page 134 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 2 - I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
Page 95 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 291 - I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house. Also I had great possessions of great and small cattle, above all that were in Jerusalem before me. I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings ; and of the provinces I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts ; so I was great and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem.
Page 601 - And the man of God said, Where fell it ? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.