| Annie Keary - History, Ancient - 1870 - 360 pages
...living, indulging in soft and rich clothing, wearing ornaments — earrings in their ears — and " exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look at." 2 Their houses were full of costly furniture, gold and silver drinking vessels, soft couches,... | |
| Clara L. Matéaux - Animals - 1872 - 286 pages
...garments of many colours, just as Ezekiel says he saw — ' The images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding...upon their heads, all of them princes to look to' (xxiii. 14, 15). " Indeed, it is very likely that the prophet had seen the very stones which you and... | |
| Archaeology - 1873 - 618 pages
...was entirely conventional, and the rules of art remained unchanged for centuries. It is remarkable with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads," &c. At the Khorsabad Palace, built by Sargon, circa BC 720, Mr. Layard noticed that painting was more... | |
| Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...though usually in no very durable form, incidents in their lives. * Sir George Grey observes that " this figure brings to mind the description of the...upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all... | |
| Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...though usually in no very durable form, incidents in their lives. * Sir George Grey observes that " this figure brings to mind the description of the...upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all... | |
| James Frederick Elton - Africa, Central - 1879 - 490 pages
...Arabs, some in dingy brown or dirty white, others in blue, scarlet, gold, and vermilion raiment, " girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads" — "desirable young men; captains and rulers;" greedylooking merchants of every class and age ; rough-looking... | |
| Nineveh - 1881 - 136 pages
...desirable young men. She saw men portrayed upon the wall, The images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, Girded with girdles upon their loins, Exceeding...upon their heads, All of them princes to look to." — Ezek. xxiii. 12, 14, 15. And there they are upon those marbles, all of them "princes to look to;"... | |
| James Kendall Hosmer - Jews - 1885 - 422 pages
...Assyrians," says Ezekiel, " captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in...upon their heads, all of them princes to look to." Brilliant though the Assyrians were, mighty and gorgeous though the empire was which they established,... | |
| 1885 - 554 pages
...pourtrayeci upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles 15 upon their loins, 'exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians "in Chaldea, the land of their nativity. And 'as soon as... | |
| 1885 - 558 pages
...pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles '5 upon their loins, 'exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians 6in Chaldea, the land of their nativity. And 'as soon as... | |
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