Oriental Memoirs: A Narrative of Seventeen Years Residence in India, Част 68, Том 1Richard Bentley, 1834 |
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... valuable and accurate resources , has induced me to alter their original form , and present them to the world in the shape of a connected narrative . I consider this ex- planation necessary to account for the epistolary style ...
... valuable and accurate resources , has induced me to alter their original form , and present them to the world in the shape of a connected narrative . I consider this ex- planation necessary to account for the epistolary style ...
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... valuable fruit varies in shape , colour , and flavour , as much as apples do in Europe : the superior kinds are extremely delicious ; and in the interior resemble the large yellow peach at Venice , heightened by the flavour of the ...
... valuable fruit varies in shape , colour , and flavour , as much as apples do in Europe : the superior kinds are extremely delicious ; and in the interior resemble the large yellow peach at Venice , heightened by the flavour of the ...
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... hour . Mahomet repeated his advice for praise and thanksgiving to Alla , and recorded me in his calendar as a lucky man . Dr. Russell , in his valuable treatise on Indian ser- 30 INDIAN SERPENTS . pents , has distinguished between the.
... hour . Mahomet repeated his advice for praise and thanksgiving to Alla , and recorded me in his calendar as a lucky man . Dr. Russell , in his valuable treatise on Indian ser- 30 INDIAN SERPENTS . pents , has distinguished between the.
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... valuable animal . The Hindoos estimate the delinquency of these apostate spirits , by the class of mortal forms which they are doomed to inhabit ; thus all voracious and unclean animals , whether inhabitants of earth , air , or water ...
... valuable animal . The Hindoos estimate the delinquency of these apostate spirits , by the class of mortal forms which they are doomed to inhabit ; thus all voracious and unclean animals , whether inhabitants of earth , air , or water ...
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... valuable articles . Thus was the oriental commerce enlarged ; and numerous con- verts , from the Red Sea to the remotest of the eastern islands , were added to the Mahomedan faith . I shall conclude this account of the Mahomedans in ...
... valuable articles . Thus was the oriental commerce enlarged ; and numerous con- verts , from the Red Sea to the remotest of the eastern islands , were added to the Mahomedan faith . I shall conclude this account of the Mahomedans in ...
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Страница 198 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Страница 194 - And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish ; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God.
Страница 420 - He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow ; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Страница ix - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind.
Страница 354 - And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel : and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.