The Bible cyclopædia: or, Illustrations of the civil and natural history of the sacred writings [ed. by W. Goodhugh, completed by W.C. Taylor].William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor 1843 |
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Page 722
... Persia , a diadem was worn not only by the king himself , but , with a little variation in its shape , by his relations and others to whom special favours had been conceded . ( Esth . 8. 15. ) See CROWN . The throne , ND kesi , was a ...
... Persia , a diadem was worn not only by the king himself , but , with a little variation in its shape , by his relations and others to whom special favours had been conceded . ( Esth . 8. 15. ) See CROWN . The throne , ND kesi , was a ...
Page 725
... Persians ; the Kuros ( Cyrus ) of the Greeks . This river unites its waters to the Aras , or Araxes , and empties itself into the Caspian Sea under the 39th degree of north latitude . Professor Jahn thinks that the Usbecks , who dwell ...
... Persians ; the Kuros ( Cyrus ) of the Greeks . This river unites its waters to the Aras , or Araxes , and empties itself into the Caspian Sea under the 39th degree of north latitude . Professor Jahn thinks that the Usbecks , who dwell ...
Page 733
... Persian , the Armenian , and the old Egyptian or Ethiopic . ( 3. ) From the Sclavonic or Tartarian , which is again radically different both from the Arabic and Sanscrit , spring , ( so far as the above eminent authority could venture ...
... Persian , the Armenian , and the old Egyptian or Ethiopic . ( 3. ) From the Sclavonic or Tartarian , which is again radically different both from the Arabic and Sanscrit , spring , ( so far as the above eminent authority could venture ...
Page 734
... Persians , or of the Greeks , or of the Egyptians , because we have no grounds for supposing that Greece , and Persia , and Egypt , were then inhabited . The obvious answer is , that it was the people inhabiting the country in the ...
... Persians , or of the Greeks , or of the Egyptians , because we have no grounds for supposing that Greece , and Persia , and Egypt , were then inhabited . The obvious answer is , that it was the people inhabiting the country in the ...
Page 739
... Persian Magi founded their interpretation on the basis of this iden- tical principle , when consulted by Xerxes ... Persians , and Egyptians , as we learn from Achmetes , interpreted his dream to signify that he would obtain the pre ...
... Persian Magi founded their interpretation on the basis of this iden- tical principle , when consulted by Xerxes ... Persians , and Egyptians , as we learn from Achmetes , interpreted his dream to signify that he would obtain the pre ...
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