Historical Researches Into the Politics, Intercourse, and Trade of the Principal Nations of Antiquity, Band 1D.A. Talboys, 1833 |
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according acquainted Alexander already ancient animals antiquity appears army ARRIAN Asia Minor Asiatic authority Bactriana BRISSON Bucharia Cabul Cappadocia Caspian character CHARDIN Chehl-Menâr cities civil commerce conquered conquerors consequence continued court Ctesias custom Cyrop Cyrus Darius Hystaspis desert despotic district dominion dress dynasty east Ecbatana edifice Europe extended formed former Gedrosia gold Grecian Greeks Gustasp habits HEROD Herodotus Hindustan historian hordes Ibid Indian Indus inhabitants interior king king's kingdom language latter less manner Medes Media mentioned modern monarch Mongols MORIER mountains nations natural NIEBUHR nomad observations occasion origin Ormuzd palace Pasargada period Persepolis Persian empire Persian monarchy Phrygia PORTER possessed present princes principal probable prove provinces race racter reign religion remark respecting river ruins satraps sculpture sians situated Sogdiana STRABO Susa tains territory tion travellers tribes tribute whole XENOPH Xenophon Xerxes Zendavesta Zoroaster
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Seite 323 - Mahomet, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, erected his throne on the ruins of Christianity and of Rome.
Seite 191 - Shushan the palace, in the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him: when he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
Seite 325 - Vedas perhaps excepted) which so plainly wears the stamp of remote antiquity, ascending beyond the times within which the known empires of the East flourished ; in which we catch, as it were, the last faint echo of the history of a former world, anterior to that great catastrophe of our planet which is attested in the vicinity of the parent country of these legends, by the remains of the elephant, the rhinoceros, and the mammoth, and other animals properly belonging to the countries of the South.
Seite 166 - His present accorded with the character which is assigned to him ; it consisted of pistols and spears, a string of one hundred camels, and as many mules. After this came the present from the prince of Yezd, another of the king's sons, which consisted of shawls and the silken stuffs, the manufacture of his own town.
Seite 17 - The mighty empires which arose in Asia were not founded in the same manner with the kingdoms of Europe. They were generally erected by mighty conquering nations, and these, for the most part, nomad nations. This important consideration we must never lose sight of, when engaged in the study of their history and institutions.
Seite 182 - The four side entrances, oo and pp, are adorned with other sculptures, representing the king engaged in conflict with a wild animal. The human character of the figure proves that it is meant for the king, and not for a being of a higher order, an Amshaspand for example ; because the Persian artists never represented superior beings without some external indication, such as wings. The wild animals are in the act of rearing themselves on their hind legs against the king, who in each instance seizes...
Seite lxix - ... outside the city of Helsingfors, and the ringing tones of the new National Anthem were taken up by thousands of voices. This was the crowning day in the life of Runeberg. By this time he had outlived the economical pressure of his earlier years. In 1844 he had been made titular Professor, and decorated with the order of the North Star by the King of Sweden, Oscar I.