"Ashur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal, And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance ...
— Bible Stories and Religious Classics • Philip P. Wells
... and fifty students in New Haven at that time, with a faculty consisting of a Professor of Divinity, who performed the duties of President, a Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and three tutors. Joel Barlow was a classmate, and so were Oliver Wolcott, Zephaniah Smith, Ashur Miller, and others who occupied high judicial positions afterward in the young republic. In Dr. Stiles's Diary there is an entry June 14, 1778, Webster's senior year. "The students disputed forensically this day a twofold question; ...
— Noah Webster - American Men of Letters • Horace E. Scudder
... and Lorna, German and Herman, Josanna and Johanna, Alfred and Talfred, Hamar and Tamar, Ashur and Jasher, Baruch and Saruch, Mollyetta and Pollyetta, Are all good names ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole
... son of Noah, had five sons, who inhabited the land that began at Euphrates, and reached to the Indian Ocean. For Elam left behind him the Elamites, the ancestors of the Persians. Ashur lived at the city Nineve; and named his subjects Assyrians, who became the most fortunate nation, beyond others. Arphaxad named the Arphaxadites, who are now called Chaldeans. Aram had the Aramites, which the Greeks called Syrians; as Laud founded the Laudites, which are now called Lydians. ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus |
