 | 1823 - 496 páginas
...streets ; this vast solitude, filled with the busy subjects of the proud daughter of the East ! Now, " wasted with misery," her habitations are not to be...found; and for herself, "the worm is spread over her !" November 12th. — By the appointed hour this morning, the kiabya's officer appeared before my gate,... | |
 | 1823 - 804 páginas
...streets ; this vast solitude, filled with the busy subjects of the proud daughter of the East ! Now, ' wasted with misery,' her habitations are not to be...; and, for herself, ' the worm is spread over her !' Our road bent, from the immediate bank of the river, to the south-east ; and, after crossing the... | |
 | Robert Mignan - 1829 - 386 páginas
...undergone the action of fire.* * Note on Urns from Desatir, page 248. PREDICTIONS OF SCRIPTURE. 201 ' 'A little below this there is a ridge of mounds extending...for herself, the worm is spread over her." DECEMBER 3d. — Attended by three horsemen from the commander of the Pasha of Bagdad's army encamped near Hillah,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1836 - 294 páginas
...streets — this vast solitude filled with the busy subjects of the proud daughter of the East. — Now, wasted with misery, her habitations are not to be...— and for herself, the worm is spread over her."* From palaces converted into broken hills ; — from streets to long lines of heaps; — from the throne... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1836 - 322 páginas
...mounds, streets. This vast solitude, filled with the busy subjects of the proud daughter of the east. Now wasted with misery, her habitations are not to be...found, and for herself, ' the worm is spread over her.' " The Rev. Alexander Keith, concludes with these pertinent remarks: "Has not every purpose of the Lord... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 páginas
...streets, — this vast solitude filled with the busy subjects of the proud daughter of the East. Now, wasted with misery, ' her habitations are not to be...— and for herself, ' the worm is spread over her.' " * * Porter's Travels, vol. ii. p. 207. TENTH WEEK—FRIDAY. ARCHITECTURK. ITS ANCIENT HISTORY AND... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 370 páginas
...solitude filled with the busy subjects of the proud daughter of the East ! now, ' wasted with misery,'1 her habitations are not to be found ; and for herself, ' the worm is spread over her.'1 The banks of the Euphrates are, nevertheless, still covered with willows, as they were in ancient... | |
 | John Kitto - 1845 - 932 páginas
...streets ; its vast solitude was filled with the busy subjects of the proud mistress of the East. Now, ' wasted with misery,' her habitations are not to be...and, for herself, ' the worm is spread over her.' Srrabo makes the Euphrates a stadium (500 feet) in breadth at Babylon ; according to Rennel it is about... | |
 | Ingram Cobbin - 1846 - 396 páginas
...mounds, streets. This vast solitude filled with the busy subjects of the proud daughter of the east : now wasted with misery, her ' habitations are not to be found,' and for herself, ' the PROPHECIES, worm is spread over her.' The records of the human race do not present a contrast more... | |
 | 1848 - 272 páginas
...streets — this vast solitude, filled with the busy subjects of the proud daughter of the east, now wasted with misery ; her habitations are not to be...found, and for herself, ' the worm is spread over her.' " The Rev. Alexander Keith concludes with these pertinent remarks : " Has not every purpose of the... | |
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... harps, and, while Jerusalem was not, refused to be comforted. But how is the rest of the scene changed since then ! At that time those broken hills were palaces — those long undulating mounds, streets — this vast solitude filled with the busy... 
