Great Cities of the World: In Their Glory and in Their Desolation, Embracing Cities of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, with a History of Important Events of Their TimeAlden, Beardsley, 1852 - 544 pagina's |
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Great Cities of the World: In Their Glory and in Their Desolation, Embracing ... John Frost Volledige weergave - 1855 |
Great Cities of the World in Their Glory and in Their Desolation, Embracing ... John Frost Volledige weergave - 1854 |
Great Cities of the World: In Their Glory and in Their Desolation, Embracing ... John Frost Volledige weergave - 1852 |
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Acrocorinth Acropolis adorned ancient appears architecture Athenian Athens Atimia Baalbek Babylon beautiful brick building built Calle de Alcala called capital centre character Christian church colossal columns Corinth court covered Damascus Demosthenes desolation Doric order earth east eastern edifice Edom Egypt Egyptian emperor empire entrance erected feet high feet long feet wide front glory grand Grecian Greece Greek ground height hill honour houses hundred inhabitants island Jerusalem Jews king length magnificent marble ment miles monuments mounds mountains natural Nebuchadnezzar Nineveh occupied ornaments palace Persian pillars plain population portico present prince probably pyramid reign remains river rock Roman Rome ruins sacred Sardis sculptured seems side Smyrna splendid splendour square stands stone stories streets summit surrounded taste temple terrace Thebes thee thou tion towers town Turks Tyre valley Venetians Venice walls whole
Populaire passages
Pagina 29 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Pagina 447 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
Pagina 237 - Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Pagina 94 - For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Pagina 25 - 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...
Pagina 48 - And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way ; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them ; and he did it not.
Pagina 128 - These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
Pagina 199 - And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me : I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever ; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
Pagina 57 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Pagina 127 - They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.