| 1850 - 704 páginas
...trade „ holy. I now felt an irresistible desire to penetrate to the regions beyond the Euphrates, to which history and tradition point as the birthplace of the wisdom of the West. Most travellers, after a journey through the usually frequented parts of the East, have the same longing... | |
| 1849 - 492 páginas
...Syria. "I now felt," says he, "an irresistible desire to penetrate to the regions beyond the Euphrates, to which history and tradition point as the birth-place of the wisdom of the west." The deep mystery which has long hung over Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldea — names with which are... | |
| 1849 - 858 páginas
...has made holy. I now felt an irresistible desire to penetrate to the regions beyond the Euphrates, to which history and tradition point as the birthplace of the wisdom of the West. Most travellers, after a journey through the usually frequented parts of the East, have the same longing... | |
| Austen Henry Layard - 1849 - 474 páginas
...has made holy. I now felt an irresistible desire to penetrate to the regions beyond the Euphrates, to which history and tradition point as the birthplace of the wisdom of the West. Most travellers, after a journey through the usually frequented . parts of the East, have the same... | |
| 1850 - 418 páginas
...has made holy. I now felt an irresistible desire to penetrate to the regions beyond the Euphrates, to which history and tradition point as the birthplace of the wisdom of the West. Most travellers, after a journey through the usually frequented parts of the East, have the same longing... | |
| John Blackburn - 1850 - 256 páginas
...Syria and Asia Minor, "felt an irrepressible desire to penetrate the regions beyond the Euphrates, to which history and tradition point as the birthplace of the wisdom of the west."" Two journeys brought him among the ruins on the banks of the Tigris, in 1840 and 1842, but it was not... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1851 - 336 páginas
...use his own words, he " felt an irresistible desire to penetrate to the regions beyond the Euphrates to which history and tradition point as the birth-place of the Wisdom of the West." He had trodden the consecrated spots where Babylon and Nineveh were supposed to lie. He had walked... | |
| sir Austen Henry Layard - 1851 - 442 páginas
...has made holy. I now felt an irresistible desire to penetrate to the regions beyond the Euphrates, to which history and tradition point as the birthplace of the wisdom of the West. Most travellers, after a journey through the usually frequented parts of the East, have the same longing... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1851 - 340 páginas
...use his own words, he " felt an irresistible desire to penetrate to the regions beyond the Euphrates to which history and tradition point as the birth-place of the Wisdom of the West." He had trodden the consecrated spots where Babylon and Nineveh were supposed to lie. He had walked... | |
| Sir Austen Henry Layard - 1851 - 442 páginas
...has made holy. I now felt an irresistible desire to penetrate to the regions beyond the Euphrates, to which history and tradition point as the birthplace of the wisdom of the West. Most travellers, after a journey through the usually frequented parts of the East, have the same longing... | |
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