. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . TRANSPOBT OF A WINGED action, when it is desired to show how the victor employedhis prisoners for the greater honour of his gods and his own THE EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS 75 glory, the picture is no less detailed and realistic. Therewe see them, the noble and the great of all the conquered. BULL ON A SLEDGE. nations, Chaldffians and Elamites, inhabitants of CiHcia, 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Layard. 76 SENNACHERIB Phoenicia, and Judaea, harnessed to ropes and goaded bythe whips of the overseers, dragging the colossal bull whichis de
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . TRANSPOBT OF A WINGED action, when it is desired to show how the victor employedhis prisoners for the greater honour of his gods and his own THE EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS 75 glory, the picture is no less detailed and realistic. Therewe see them, the noble and the great of all the conquered. BULL ON A SLEDGE. nations, Chaldffians and Elamites, inhabitants of CiHcia, 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Layard. 76 SENNACHERIB Phoenicia, and Judaea, harnessed to ropes and goaded bythe whips of the overseers, dragging the colossal bull whichis destined to mount guard at the gates of the palace : withbodies bent, pendant arms, and faces contorted with pain,they, who had been the chief men in their cities, now takethe place of beasts of burden, while Sennacherib, erect onhis state chariot, with steady glance and Hps compressed,watches them as they pass slowly before him in theirignomiuy and misery. After the destruction of Babylon there is a pause in thehistory of the conqueror, and with him in that of Assyriaitself. It seems as if Nineveh had been exhausted bythe greatness of her effort, and was stopping to takebreath before setting out on a fresh career of conquest:the other nations also, as if overwhelmed by the magnitudeof the catastrophe, appear to have henceforth despairedof t
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