Media, Babylon and Persia: Including a Study of the Zend Avesta from the Fall of Nineveh to the Persian WarPutnam, 1903 - 447 pages |
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... hands of victors whose wars and conquests were all prompted by religious fanaticism . The Persian clergy were persecuted , their temples desecrated and destroyed , their sacred books likewise , and the faithful followers of the ancient ...
... hands of victors whose wars and conquests were all prompted by religious fanaticism . The Persian clergy were persecuted , their temples desecrated and destroyed , their sacred books likewise , and the faithful followers of the ancient ...
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... ANQUETIL DUPERRON . Ambitious , eager- minded , and scarcely twenty - two , he saw in this a hint of fate , a great work , worthy of all his energies and enthusiasm , given into his hand ; in short 8 MEDIA , BABYLON , AND PERSIA .
... ANQUETIL DUPERRON . Ambitious , eager- minded , and scarcely twenty - two , he saw in this a hint of fate , a great work , worthy of all his energies and enthusiasm , given into his hand ; in short 8 MEDIA , BABYLON , AND PERSIA .
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... hand ; in short , that most desirable of boons - an object in life . " I at once resolved to endow my country with this pecul- iar piece of literature , " he says . " I dared to form the design of translating it , and determined to go ...
... hand ; in short , that most desirable of boons - an object in life . " I at once resolved to endow my country with this pecul- iar piece of literature , " he says . " I dared to form the design of translating it , and determined to go ...
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... hand down from generation to generation the sense and spirit of their religious law as well as its outer forms . How could he suspect that , in carrying the vessel , they had spilt most of the contents , and that their main - stay was a ...
... hand down from generation to generation the sense and spirit of their religious law as well as its outer forms . How could he suspect that , in carrying the vessel , they had spilt most of the contents , and that their main - stay was a ...
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... hand is singularly arduous and obscure , and although pa- tient scholarship has indeed succeeded in restoring the lost religion attributed to Zoroaster in its main features and general spirit , in tracing the various ele- ments which ...
... hand is singularly arduous and obscure , and although pa- tient scholarship has indeed succeeded in restoring the lost religion attributed to Zoroaster in its main features and general spirit , in tracing the various ele- ments which ...
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Ahura Ahura-Mazda Akhæmenian Amesha-Spentas ancient Anshan Aryan Aryas Asia Astyages Âtar Avesta Babylon Babylonian battle called Chinvat Bridge corpse daêvas Dakhmas Dareios death deities divine earth Êgibi Egypt empire Erân Eranian evil faithful fiends fire followers Fravashis Gâthas gods Greek Gyges hand Haoma Hara-Berezaiti heaven heavenly Herodotus holy hymns India Indo-Eranian inscriptions Kambujiya Kambyses king Kroisos Kyaxares Kyros land language light living Lord LYCIA Lydian material Mazda Mazdayasnian Mazdeism Medes Median Median Empire ment Mithra modern mountain myth mythical nations nature Nebuchadrezzar original palace Parsis PERSEPOLIS Persian prayer priests probably prophet race reign religion religious ROCK-TOMB royal sacred books sacrifice Sassanian Scythians sea Vouru-Kasha Semitic silver soul spirit Sraosha Story of Assyria Story of Chaldea tablets temple thing thou tion Tishtrya Turanian unto Váruna Vendîdâd walls waters words worship Yasna Yazatas Yesht Yima Zarathushtra Zoroaster Zoroastrian
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Page 177 - And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name...
Page 176 - As I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence...
Page 184 - Tyre : every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled : yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyre, for the service that he had served against it : therefore thus saith the Lord God...
Page 406 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace ; where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
Page 178 - I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
Page 184 - Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
Page 360 - Then the whole state became rebellious ; from Cambyses it went over to him, both Persia and Media, and the other provinces. He seized the empire ; on the pth day of the month Garmapada,* then it was he thus seized the empire.