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...appeared in Persia after the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1738. Designer is thought to have been Ustad Isa, reputed creator of the Taj Mahal. Before it was stripped of most of its appurtenances, silver steps led up to the throne proper, a peacock tail canopy overspread it, diamonds, rubies, precious gems, thick as stars on an autumn night, encrusted it. Eastern imagination placed its original value at ?12,000,000 sterling...
...myself I say that if I did not feel . . . and hope that some day-perhaps millions of years hence-the Kingdom of God would overspread the whole world, then ... I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take...
Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire in its western provinces. At the fall of the Assyrian empire it overspread Asia, except Arabia, and supplanted the Semitic languages. The reason it spread is unknown; but the conquest was almost as complete as was that of Arabic later at the time of the Moslem conquest...
...greatly off-off-fended. I am much in-in-in-in - " but he had to give this up, and as the greatness of his affliction came home to him, unspeakable distress overspread his face and he exclaimed, "I wish-sh-sh I were d-d-dead...
...anxious fears entertained during his illness for his recovery were only too sadly confirmed by his death, intelligence of which was first conveyed to the students by the touching words which fell from the lips of our Chaplain. The depression of spirits which has overspread society in consequence of this event comes with peculiar force upon the College with which he was connected. It needs an eloquent pen to pay a fitting tribute to Agassiz, and it is impossible in these moments of general grief to assign him the place among the world's great naturalists which the future will...