Ancient History: History of the PersiansReligious Tract Society, 1842 - 123 pages |
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... covered with snow during the greater part of the year . Between the Nurmanshur and the town of Kerman is a desert , with a few oases of moderate extent : about the town itself there is a large tract of fertile country . West of the town ...
... covered with snow during the greater part of the year . Between the Nurmanshur and the town of Kerman is a desert , with a few oases of moderate extent : about the town itself there is a large tract of fertile country . West of the town ...
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... covered from their base upward with an incrust- ation of salt , in some places transparent as ice . In other places , the surface is covered with a thin layer of dusky red - coloured earth , which owes its colour to the oxide of iron ...
... covered from their base upward with an incrust- ation of salt , in some places transparent as ice . In other places , the surface is covered with a thin layer of dusky red - coloured earth , which owes its colour to the oxide of iron ...
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... covered with hyacinths and tulips . Its land abounds in all the beauties of nature ; its climate is salubrious and temperate , neither too warm nor too cold ; it is a region of perpetual spring : there , in shady bowers , the ...
... covered with hyacinths and tulips . Its land abounds in all the beauties of nature ; its climate is salubrious and temperate , neither too warm nor too cold ; it is a region of perpetual spring : there , in shady bowers , the ...
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... covered with villages , and as teeming with corn . " The rich landscape , " he says , " receives additional beauty and variety from the numerous mosques , tombs , and other edifices by which it is embellished , and the mountain slopes ...
... covered with villages , and as teeming with corn . " The rich landscape , " he says , " receives additional beauty and variety from the numerous mosques , tombs , and other edifices by which it is embellished , and the mountain slopes ...
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... covered with snow ; and when Mo- rier was there in March , ice was still to be seen . The mild weather does not commence before April , when the transition from cold to heat is very sudden . At sunrise the thermometer stands between 61 ...
... covered with snow ; and when Mo- rier was there in March , ice was still to be seen . The mild weather does not commence before April , when the transition from cold to heat is very sudden . At sunrise the thermometer stands between 61 ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.