 | 1856 - 1026 Seiten
...Some suppose it was the city called " No," mentioned by some of the Prophets, especially Nahum, who asks, " Art thou better than populous No, that was...rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea ?" But there is no doubt that the city of Alexandria, which afterwards became so famous, was first... | |
 | Nehemiah Adams, H. B. Williams - 1842 - 74 Seiten
...the great city and on the brink of the ocean, brought to mind the prophet Nahum's description of ' populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that...rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea.' The Battery, as a piece of ground, is not to be compared with Boston Common. It has no variety of surface.... | |
 | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1842 - 468 Seiten
...passage is very interesting. ' Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the waters, that had the waters round about it ; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea ? Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength : Put and Lubin were thy helpers.' The word D'"IN' larim, '... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 734 Seiten
...than as a means of communication with foreign nations. In his denunciation against Nineveh, he ask?, "Art thou better than populous No, that was situate...rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it ivas infinite; Put and Lubira were thy helpers. Yet she... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1844 - 338 Seiten
...Nineveth, with an apparent preference given to the former. The prophet interrogates Nineveh thus : " Art thou better than populous No, that was situate...rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea ?" And then in the next verse he says, " Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite."... | |
 | 1844 - 326 Seiten
...and Nineveth, with an apparent preference given to the former. The prophet interrogates Nineveh thus: "Art thou better than populous No, that was situate...about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall \vns from the sea?" And then in the next verse he says, "Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and... | |
 | Henry Paul Measor - 1844 - 302 Seiten
...profligate Nineveh, asks in the language of severe expostulation, "Art thou better than populous Wo, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters...rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at... | |
 | Daniel Parker - 1844 - 158 Seiten
...what might in modern language be called, a hyperbolical sense. The prophet, addressing Ninevah, says, "Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the water round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea; Ethiopia and Egypt... | |
 | 1844 - 680 Seiten
...by the geographical position indicated by the prophet : " Art thou better than the populous No-Amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her, whose rampart was the uea, and her wall was from the sea?"* Ibn Ezra, Abarbanel, and R. Azarya... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1845 - 298 Seiten
...scarcely a doubt of the identity of Thebes of Egypt, with the No-Amon mentioned by the prophet Nahum : " Art thou better than populous No, that was situate...rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite : Put and Lubim were thy helpers. Yet was... | |
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Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 
