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...ting books, articles and poems, he often gave lectures, and also broadcast talks on Celtic mythology. This volume deals with the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria, and as these reflect the civilization in which they developed, a historical narrative has been provided, beginning with the early Sumerian Age and concluding with the periods of the Persian and Grecian ...

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...History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original, “Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique” by E. L. McClur...

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...History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original, “Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique” and published i...

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...History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original, “Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique” and published i...

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...can easily perceive the clue which has led our author into his interpretation, that the Babylonian and Persian do together compose but one of the ki... ...f the Christian faith. For the rest, what our author says concerning the oneness of the Babylonian and Persian kingdom may be true politically consi... ...ophet’s abject sorrow and great astonishment. To the second of his objections, that the Babylonian monarchy was then past, I have nothing to say exc... ...rder that they might keep proper count; so that they called the first the empire of the Babylonians, the second of the Persians. Now let us see how ... ... without losing sight of the text of Daniel. The first kingdom they say, is that of the Babylonians and Chaldeans, whose founder was Nebuchadnezzar; ... ...ad was of fine gold. Now, I inquire, if this first kingdom, which they call that of the Babylonians or Chaldeans, was limited to Chaldea only? Evide... ...ingdom figured in the statue by the head of gold, is doubtless that of the Chaldeans or Babylonians, of which Nebuchadnezzar, who had founded it with... ... no reason then for dividing the kingdom of the Persians from that o f the Chaldeans or Babylonians, because it is evidently the same kingdom of gold... ... four Kingdoms proposed. 136 The first Kingdom, figured by the head of gold, is that of Babylonia or Chaldea. 136 The second, figured by the breast ...

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...ook of Fate) (1747) is a famous novel written by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The author does not attempt any historical accuracy, and some of the problems Zadig faces are thinly disguised references to social and political problems of Voltaire's own day. The book is philosophical in nature,...

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... nor the other found any adequate resistance in the luxurious occupants of Babylonia. We may add, with respect to these two earliest monarchies, that ... ...voked. Some such spectacle of nations crowding upon nations, and some such Babylonian confusion of dresses, complexions, languages, and jargons, was t...

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... God justified men with- out the Law. He justified many kings of Egypt and Babylonia. He justified Job. Nineveh, that great city, was justified and re... ...ere- with Christ hath made us free,” not from material bonds, not from the Babylonian captivity, not from the tyranny of the T urks, but from the eter...

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...rtent Alexander regarded with such dislike, that he immediately caused his Babylonian priests, whom he usually carried about with him for such purpose... ...bsence, suddenly passed the Euphrates with his army, and made his way into Babylonia unexpectedly; 547 Plutarch’s Lives where he succeeded in capturi... ...the Greeks with Xenophon, who, when they had a longer journey to make from Babylonia, and a more powerful enemy to deal with, never- theless came home...

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...f Achaz. 12 At that time Berodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of the Babylonians, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard that E... ...he Apharsathacites, the Therphalites, the Aphar- sites, the Erchuites, the Babylonians, the Su- sanechites, the Dievites, and the Elamites, 10 And the... ... Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of Sedei, the son Helcias, wrote in Babylonia. 2 In the fth year, in the seventh day of the month, at the time... ...g of the people, from the least even to the greatest of them that dwelt in Babylonia, by the river Sedi. 5 And when they heard it they wept, and faste... ... was the king’s guest, and was hon- oured above all his friends. 2 Now the Babylonians had an idol called Bel: and there was spent upon him every day ... ...him and his temple. 22 And there was a great dragon in that place, and the Babylonians worshipped him. 23 And the king said to Daniel: Behold, thou ca... ...n burst asunder. And he said: Behold him whom you worship. 27 And when the Babylonians had heard this, they took great indignation: and being gathered... ...ed away from thence, and departed with great sadness, and returned towards Babylonia. 5 And whilst he was in Persia there came one that told him how t... ...royed. 20 And of the battle that they had fought against the Galatians, in Babylonia; how they, being in all but six thousand, when it came to the poi...

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...ust spo- ken of, it must be acknowledged that he would want the country of Babylonia for them, or some one like it, of an immeasurable extent, to supp... ...ted between them. The King of Persia also very often reduces the Medes and Babylonians when they assume upon their former power: [1284b] and this is a...