A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum, Bloomsbury: With Maps and PlansThe Trustees, 1892 - 288 pages |
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Page 65 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 46 - And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem : and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he even took away all : and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Page 96 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 65 - I added the tribute of alliance of my lordship and laid that upon him. Hezekiah himself was overwhelmed by the fear of the brightness of my lordship ; the Arabians and his other faithful warriors...
Page xxxiii - An Act for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane and of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts, and for providing one general repository for the better reception and more convenient use of the said collections, and of the Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto...
Page 87 - At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot.
Page xxxiii - The official trustees are the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancellor, the speaker of the House of Commons...
Page 164 - Islands ; and the lowest (c) those of Italy, Sicily, the Southern shores of the Mediterranean, and Western Europe. Each of the seven historical compartments thus offers in its three geographical sections a complete view of the coins current throughout the civilized world during that particular century or period, the whole forming a series of historically successive tableaux.
Page 84 - Elgin Room, they may furnish a good point of view for estimating the capabilities and defects of Assyrian art. No. 39, on which is seen a marshal or chamberlain with a staff, was originally placed, as here, at a projection in the wall. Amongst the attendants or servitors, represented on Nos. 41-43, is one bearing in each hand a rod with two rows of dried locusts, which are to this day used as food by the Arabs. The / other attendants carry wine-skins, birds, pomegranates, and other fruit.
Page 165 - ... but withal there is in the best archaic work a strength and a delicacy of touch which are often wanting in the fully developed art of a later age.