Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63)Macmillan and Company, 1865 |
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... readers will be somewhat startled on learning that this great functionary was jet - black , a negro , in fact , though not a slave , having obtained his freedom from Turkee , the father of the present king . He was tall , and , for a ...
... readers will be somewhat startled on learning that this great functionary was jet - black , a negro , in fact , though not a slave , having obtained his freedom from Turkee , the father of the present king . He was tall , and , for a ...
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... readers , even though of East Norfolk , to guess for an hour together what was this well - omened platter , they would hardly , I think , hit on dried shrimps , the article now before us . My Syrian companion , who had never seen these ...
... readers , even though of East Norfolk , to guess for an hour together what was this well - omened platter , they would hardly , I think , hit on dried shrimps , the article now before us . My Syrian companion , who had never seen these ...
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... readers may perhaps know that Mahomet- ans divide sins into classes - the " great , " to be punished in the next world , or at least deserving it ; and the " little " sins , whose forgiveness is more easily obtained , and whose penalty ...
... readers may perhaps know that Mahomet- ans divide sins into classes - the " great , " to be punished in the next world , or at least deserving it ; and the " little " sins , whose forgiveness is more easily obtained , and whose penalty ...
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... readers may say . However , I must notice , as a sort of apology for our Mahometan , and above all for our Nejdean friends , that this belief is in their ideas not quite so savage as it looks at first sight . For in their glorious ...
... readers may say . However , I must notice , as a sort of apology for our Mahometan , and above all for our Nejdean friends , that this belief is in their ideas not quite so savage as it looks at first sight . For in their glorious ...
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... readers cannot fail to understand that the answer to this query must throw considerable light on the moral character of the sect ; the most important point , perhaps , where national creeds are concerned . Accordingly I expressed to my ...
... readers cannot fail to understand that the answer to this query must throw considerable light on the moral character of the sect ; the most important point , perhaps , where national creeds are concerned . Accordingly I expressed to my ...
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