 | 1831 - 492 pàgines
...once mighty city thrown down from its foundation, and exhibiting on the summit of the ruinous heap, " immense fragments of brick-work, of no determinate...solid vitrified masses, as if they had undergone the fiercest fire, or been blown up with gunpowder." It is, in fact, a burnt mountain, fused either by... | |
 | 1816 - 572 pàgines
...is nearly impossible to extract one of the bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work of...fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, the layers of the bricks being perfectly discernible, — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1816 - 514 pàgines
...bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick work of no determinate figure, tumbled together, and converted...fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, the layers of the bricks being perfectly discernible — a curious fact, and one for which I am incapable of accounting.... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1816 - 452 pàgines
...bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick work of no determinate figure, tumbled together and converted...fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, the layers of the bricks perfectly discernible, — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable of... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pàgines
...elsewhere? It seems probable that the Babel of Genesis is the Birs Nemroud of Mr. Rich *; and that " the immense fragments of brick-work of no determinate...together, and converted into solid vitrified masses," which occupy the summit of this vast artificial hill, and which are described by Captain Frederick... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pàgines
...elsewhere ? It seems probable that the Babel of Genesis is the Birs Nemroud of Mr. Rich *; and that " the immense fragments of brick-work of no determinate...together, and converted into solid vitrified masses," which occupy the summit of this vast artificial hill, and which are described by Captain Frederick... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pàgines
...is nearly impossible to extract one of the bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work, of...fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, the layers of the bricks being perfectly discernible, — a curious fact, and one for which I am utterly incapable... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pàgines
...is nearly impossible to extract one of the bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work, of...determinate figure, tumbled together and converted into K:t/ii/ vitrified masses, as if they had undergone the action of the fiercest fire, or been blown up... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1827 - 602 pàgines
...is nearly impossible to extract one of the bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work, of...masses, as if they had undergone the action of the present fire, or been blown up with gunpowder, yet the layers of the bricks are perfectly discernible."*... | |
 | 1831 - 982 pàgines
...is nearly impossible to extract one of the bricks whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill o prospect of recovery till after it had endured the...faith became the " saving of his house " (Heb. xi. of the bricks perfectly discernible : " a curious fact," says Mr. Rich, " and one for which I am utterly... | |
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... whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work of no determinate figure, tumbled together and converted into solid vitrified masses... 
