M. Botta's letters on the discoveries at Nineveh [with notes by J. Mohl] tr. by C.T. [With] Illustrations of discoveries at Nineveh, Part 57

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Longman, Brown, Green and Cayman's, 1850 - 90 pages
 

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Page i - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page xi - And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars ;§ the one of brick, the other of stone : they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind ; and also inform...
Page 12 - Anklets — one-fourth of the real size. uncommon than they formerly were. They are of course very heavy, and, knocking together as the wearer walks, make a ringing noise ; hence it is said in a song, " The ringing of thine anklets has deprived me of my reason.
Page i - So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days
Page vi - Dr. GROTEFEND, who professes to be rather the decipherer than the translator of the cuneiform inscriptions, and who engages merely to open the way to those whose attention has been much devoted to the study of the ancient languages of Persia, has however succeeded in translating some of the inscriptions on the ruins of Persepolis, and one from those of Pasargadoe.
Page xi - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water...
Page x - We learn from ancient authors that the usual method of preserving Assyrian and Babylonian records " was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed."* To this * Layard's "Nineveh,
Page vi - He observes that there are three varieties of those inscriptions distinguished from each other by the greater complication of the characters formed by the radical signs of a wedge (or arrow) and an angle. Each inscription is repeated in all the three species. The first or simplest species deciphered by Dr.
Page vi - Persia of the age of its history.* The cuneiform, or, as it has sometimes been called, the arrow-headed, character baffled the ingenuity of the decipherer, till Dr...
Page xii - ... were to unite themselves with the earth, and become a basis and sure foundation for that superstructure which was to be erected over it : they were to be so strong, in order to sustain with ease, those vast superstructures, and precious ornaments, whose own weight was to be not less than the weight of those other high and heavy buildings, which the King designed to be very ornamental and magnificent. They erected its entire body quite...

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