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... According to Pliny , Elymais was inhabited by the Uxii , Mizæi , Parthusi , Mardi , Saitæ , Hyi , Cossæi , Parætaceni , and Messabatæ . The Cossæi here are represented as inhabiting part of Media , but by the ancients , generally , they ...
... According to Pliny , Elymais was inhabited by the Uxii , Mizæi , Parthusi , Mardi , Saitæ , Hyi , Cossæi , Parætaceni , and Messabatæ . The Cossæi here are represented as inhabiting part of Media , but by the ancients , generally , they ...
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... According to the accounts of the ancients , its mountains have mines of copper and iron . Pomponius Mela said that the province of Carminia did not sustain any cattle ; at the present day , however , it is remarkable for pro- ducing ...
... According to the accounts of the ancients , its mountains have mines of copper and iron . Pomponius Mela said that the province of Carminia did not sustain any cattle ; at the present day , however , it is remarkable for pro- ducing ...
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... According to Ptolemy , the province of Paro- pamisus extended east from Aria or Heraut , to the Indus , having Arachosia to the south . The ancients , indeed , generally extended Persia to the Indus , and made the provinces of ...
... According to Ptolemy , the province of Paro- pamisus extended east from Aria or Heraut , to the Indus , having Arachosia to the south . The ancients , indeed , generally extended Persia to the Indus , and made the provinces of ...
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... According- ly , the very first thing that he saw , on entering a village of Hyrcania , was the carcase of a large ... According to Sir W Ouseley , the name of the part in which the Tabari . lived , namely , Tabristan , or Tabaristan ...
... According- ly , the very first thing that he saw , on entering a village of Hyrcania , was the carcase of a large ... According to Sir W Ouseley , the name of the part in which the Tabari . lived , namely , Tabristan , or Tabaristan ...
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... According to the Persian geographers , it once comprehended the whole of northern Persia , as far as the neighbourhood of the Indus ; that is , nearly the whole of the country subject to the King of Afghanistan . At the present time ...
... According to the Persian geographers , it once comprehended the whole of northern Persia , as far as the neighbourhood of the Indus ; that is , nearly the whole of the country subject to the King of Afghanistan . At the present time ...
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Страница 48 - THUS saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have holden, To subdue nations before him ; And I will loose the loins of kings, To open before him the two leaved gates; And the gates shall not be shut...
Страница 50 - Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia...
Страница 106 - No — man is dear to man ; the poorest poor Long for some moments in a weary life •' When they can know and feel that they have been, Themselves, the fathers and the dealers out Of some small blessings ; have been kind to such As needed kindness, for this single cause, That we have all of us one human heart.
Страница 39 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect. unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Страница 30 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Страница 41 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Страница 96 - Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.
Страница 14 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Страница 87 - And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.
Страница 50 - Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.