 | 1853 - 486 страници
...Thomson, Director of the Natural-History Department at the Crystal Palace. Mr. Douglas read the following extract from Layard's ' Discoveries in the Ruins of...Professors Goeppert and Cohn, of a Lecture by Professor von Sic-bold on Strepsiptera, at a meeting of the Silesian ' Gesellschaft fur vaterl. Cultur,' at Breslau,... | |
 | Sir Austen Henry Layard - 1853 - 752 страници
...one hand small green boughs to drive away the flies. Then came men bearing hares, partridges, find dried locusts fastened on rods. The locust has ever...banquet, it was probably highly prized by the Assyrians. The locust-bearers were followed by a man with strings of pome* No. XLIX. Plan I. f No. LI. aame Plan.... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1853 - 658 страници
...ever been an article of food in the East, and is still sold in the markets of many towns in Arabia.J Being introduced in this basrelief amongst the choice...banquet, it was probably highly prized by the Assyrians. The locust-bearers were followed by a man with strings of pomegranates ; then came, two by two, attendants... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1856 - 642 страници
...ever been an article of food in the East, and is still sold in the markets of many towns in Arabia. t Being introduced in this basrelief amongst the choice...banquet, it was probably highly prized by the Assyrians. The locust-bearers were followed by a man with strings of pomegranates ; then came, two by two, attendants... | |
 | Joseph A. Meen - 1860 - 216 страници
...of food in the east, and is still sold in the markets of many towns ef Arabia. Being introduced into this bas-relief amongst the choice delicacies of a banquet, it was probably prized by the Assyrians." The Hebrews had many names for the locust. They were employed by God in the... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 720 страници
...says of one of these which represented a procession of servants carrying supplies for a banquet :— " The attendants who followed carried clusters of ripe...banquet, it was probably highly prized by the Assyrians. " — (" Nineveh and Babylon," p. 338.) Thus the main idea is not, that their rulers would be slain... | |
 | Joseph A. Meen - 1865 - 274 страници
...of food in the East, and is still sold in the markets of many towns of Arabia. Being introduced into this bas-relief amongst the choice delicacies of a banquet, it was probably prized by the Assyrians." The Hebrews had many names for different sorts of locusts. These insects... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1871 - 442 страници
...of food in the East, and is still sold in the markets of many towns of Arabia. Being introduced in a bas-relief amongst the choice delicacies of a banquet,...it was probably highly prized by the Assyrians."« 6, 8. Then went ;* some remembered the words of the last prophet,' and expected the Messiah : others,... | |
 | 1882 - 526 страници
...locust has ever been an article of food in the East, and is still sold in the markets of many towns of Arabia. Being introduced in this bas-relief amongst...banquet, it was probably highly prized by the Assyrians." Myriads of these insects are annually destroyed while attempting their flight across the Black Sea... | |
 | Royal Entomological Society of London - 1853 - 520 страници
...following extract from Layard's ' Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon,' 1853, page 338. at Konyunjik. — The walls were panelled with sculptured...Strepsiptera form such a remarkable and isolated group of insect5, that the oldest French and English entomologists, who were the first to draw the attention... | |
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The attendants who followed carried clusters of ripe dates, and flat baskets of osier-work filled with pomegranates, apples, and bunches of grapes. They raised in one hand small green boughs to drive away the flies. Then came men bearing hares, partridges,... 