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Identifier: homeofgodspeople00gage (find matches)
Title: The home of God's people
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Dustin, Gilman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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SENNACHERIB ON HIS TIIRONB. 662 INTERESTING MEMORIALS OF SENNACHERD3. ruins opposite Mosul, on the Tigris, are full of interest, andj confirm all thaiwe might infe:^from the allusions Iof the Scriptures toSennacherib. Butmost interesting ofall the memorialsof him, is the onefrom a little northof the city of Bey-rout, near themouth of the DogRiver. On the es-carped walls whichshut in that littlestream,maybeseenfour tablets whichrepresent entirelydifferent phases ofthe worlds history,commemorate thelives of men ofmarked diversity ofcharacters, andbring together thetwo ends of thegreat continuousline of history in thehappiest manner.Most interestingof them all is onewhich is aboutthree thousandfive hundred years
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KOMAN AS. Old, on which the mighty Sesostris of Egypt, Rameses the ADVANCE OF THE ASSYRIAN ARMY. 3G3 Great, has recorded his name and his exploits, in Egyptianhieroglyphics, as he went out to the conquest of the world,his world. Then comes another tablet, one thousand yearsyounger, on which the haughty Sennacherib engraved in thewedge-shaped letters of Assyria, the story of his invasion.Then comes another, still a thousand years younger, on whichthe Roman Emperor Antoninus has recorded in Latin the storyof his exploits ; and then with a leap of fifteen hundred yearsmore, we have the name of Napoleon III., Emperor of France,and the brief history, told in the language of Paris, of thebloodless invasion of Syria in 1860. Close by these tabletsruns the narrow road, between the base of the Lebanon moun-tains and the sea, over which millions of pilgrims, warriors,and adventurers have passed, from the morning of historydown to the present time. After passing this point, the Ass)Tian army, wh

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