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" They facilitated the intercourse of peace and commerce, and, as the dams could be speedily broke down, they armed the despair of the Assyrians with the means of opposing a sudden deluge to the progress of an invading army. To the soil and climate of Assyria... "
The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests ...including the ... - Página 240
por John Gillies - 1820
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumen3

Edward Gibbon - 1804 - 502 páginas
...of opposing a sudden deluge to the progress of an invading army. To the soil and climate of Assyria, nature had denied some of her choicest gifts, the vine, the olive, and the fig-tree ; but the food which supports the life of man, and particularly wheat and barley, were produced with...
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A Tour Through Asia Minor and the Greek Islands: With an Account of the ...

Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 páginas
...of rain, and facilitated the intercourse of peace and commerce. To the soil and climate of Assyria, nature had denied some of her choicest gifts, the vine, the olive, and the fig-tree; but the food which supports the life of man, and particularly wheat and barley, were produced with...
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The History of Ancient Greece: Part the first. From the earliest accounts ...

John Gillies - 1820 - 596 páginas
...Nebuchadnezzar's reign, and the twenty-six years that intervened between his death and the conquest of his 123 Gibbon says, too strongly, " To the soil and climate...palm-trees that anciently covered the whole country. Ammianus Marcellinus, 1. xxiv. '"4 Herodotus, 1.iii. c. 158. & Xenoph. Cyropaed. 1.vii. p. J90. capital...
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The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies and Conquests ..., Volúmenes5-6

John Gillies - 1820 - 1214 páginas
...Nebuchadnezzar's reign, and the twenty-six years that intervened between his death and the conquest of his "' Gibbon says, too strongly, " To the soil and climate...fruits in almost every garden. But these garden-fruits arc poor compensations for the groves of palm-trees that anciently covered the whole country. Ammianus...
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Gibbon's History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, repr ..., Volumen2

Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 páginas
...CHAP, a sudden deluge to the progress of an invading army. _ XI To the soil and climate of Assyria, nature had denied some of her choicest gifts, the vine, the olive, and the fig-tree; but the food which supports the life of man, and particularly wheat and barley, were produced with...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumen2

Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 486 páginas
...of opposing a sudden deluge to the progress of an invading army. To the soil and climate of Assyria, nature had denied some of her choicest gifts, the vine, the olive, and (he fig-tree ;*tbut the food which supports the life of man, and particularly wheat and barley, were...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with ..., Volumen3

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 páginas
...of opposing a sudden deluge to the progress of an invading army. To the soil and climate of Assyria nature had denied some of her choicest gifts — the vine, the olive, and the figtree ;a but the food which supports the life of man, and particularly wheat and barley, were produced with...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumen2

Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 606 páginas
...of opposing a sudden deluge to the progress of an invading army. To the soil and climate of Assyria nature had denied some of her choicest gifts, the vine, the olive, and the fig-tree;50" but the food which supports the life of man, and particularly wheat and barley, were produced...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 28 Selected Chapters

Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 páginas
...of opposing a sudden deluge to the progress of an invading army. To the soil and climate of Assyria nature had denied some of her choicest gifts, the vine, the olive, and the fig-tree; but the food which supports the life of man, and particularly wheat and barley, were produced with...
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The Great Game: pt. 1. A geographical memoir of the Persian Empire

John Macdonald Kinneir - 2004 - 542 páginas
...cultivation. We are informed by Mr. Gibbon, that nature has denied to the soil and climate of Assyria some of her choicest gifts, the vine, the olive, and the fig-tree. This might have been the case in the age of Ammianus Marcellinus, but is not so at the present day...
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