Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 130
what strange contrasts were presented by theAssyrian character—a character at once sanguinary and voluptuous,brutal and refined, mystical and truculent. It is not only by what it says, it is by what it leaves untold, bywhat it forgets to tell, that art has left us such a sincere account of 1… … The PeoPLK AXU CioVKUNMKXT. 111 this singular nation. The kincr and his heutenants, his ministersand household officers, the veterans who formed the strength of hislegions and the young men from whom their numbers wererecruited, did not constitute the whole of the Assyrian nation.There were also…
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