The Quarterly Review, Volume 66; Volume 84William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1840 |
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Page 136
... Assyrian cities . It is quite impossible that within the range of history , after the fall of Babylon and the rise of the great Persian monarchy , any large capital can have arisen unnoticed , or any powerful sovereigns ruled , on the ...
... Assyrian cities . It is quite impossible that within the range of history , after the fall of Babylon and the rise of the great Persian monarchy , any large capital can have arisen unnoticed , or any powerful sovereigns ruled , on the ...
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... Assyrian dynasty , or some period when their empire was at its height as to power and extent ( Herod . i . 95 ) . * Almost * We agree with those modern critics who do not believe that Herodotus ever wrote an Assyrian history . This work ...
... Assyrian dynasty , or some period when their empire was at its height as to power and extent ( Herod . i . 95 ) . * Almost * We agree with those modern critics who do not believe that Herodotus ever wrote an Assyrian history . This work ...
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... Assyria . Their sculpture , by every appearance , was indigenous , original , taken from Assyrian life , representing Assyrian form and costume : it does not Egyptian- ise till a comparatively late period . It is doubtless the parent of ...
... Assyria . Their sculpture , by every appearance , was indigenous , original , taken from Assyrian life , representing Assyrian form and costume : it does not Egyptian- ise till a comparatively late period . It is doubtless the parent of ...
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Presbytery examined an Essay Critical and Historical | 78 |
Nineveh and its Remains By Austen Henry Layard | 106 |
Years By C H Hermes | 185 |
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