. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . She reigned forty-two years. Her death was like her infancy. The doves nursed her in the shepherdscountry ; and her spirit, as it departed, took the form of a dove, and so mountedto the sky and the abodes of the immortal gods. So says mythology ; but inthe light of to-day the dove would seem to be a very inappropriate emblem ofthe false heart and ambitious life of Semiramis. According to Ctesias, the Assyrian empire of Nineveh lasted thirteenhundred and six years.
. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . She reigned forty-two years. Her death was like her infancy. The doves nursed her in the shepherdscountry ; and her spirit, as it departed, took the form of a dove, and so mountedto the sky and the abodes of the immortal gods. So says mythology ; but inthe light of to-day the dove would seem to be a very inappropriate emblem ofthe false heart and ambitious life of Semiramis. According to Ctesias, the Assyrian empire of Nineveh lasted thirteenhundred and six years. It was founded by Ninus and Semiramis, and wasreigned over by thirty effeminate kings, who succeeded one another in the 8o ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE LEVANT. relation of father and son in uninterrupted order, — a most marvellous record ofhistory, could it be accepted as strictly true. By effeminate is meant kin^without martial spirit, — devotees to pleasure rather than to ambition, to the artsof peace rather than to the arts of war. None of these kings, except the last,seems to have inherited the heroic spirit of -fe*^
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