The British Quarterly Review, Volume 18Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1853 - Christianity |
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... Shamyl . Born in the year 1797 , of Tartar blood , and in a family of ordinary condition , as well as in an obscure province , Darghestan , lying on the south - east of the Caucasus , along the Caspian , Shamyl gave at first no signs of ...
... Shamyl . Born in the year 1797 , of Tartar blood , and in a family of ordinary condition , as well as in an obscure province , Darghestan , lying on the south - east of the Caucasus , along the Caspian , Shamyl gave at first no signs of ...
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... Shamyl was wont to tarry deep into the night , indulging in thoughts which he could scarcely distinguish from dreams . Those thoughts turned on the condition of his country . The tendency to reflection was nursed in the young man by his ...
... Shamyl was wont to tarry deep into the night , indulging in thoughts which he could scarcely distinguish from dreams . Those thoughts turned on the condition of his country . The tendency to reflection was nursed in the young man by his ...
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Henry Allon. SHAMYL AND HIS NEW RELIGION . 429 condition has been so sublimed , that man enters into immediate personal union with God . This old mystical philosophy has been revived by Shamyl , under whose hands it has received the ...
Henry Allon. SHAMYL AND HIS NEW RELIGION . 429 condition has been so sublimed , that man enters into immediate personal union with God . This old mystical philosophy has been revived by Shamyl , under whose hands it has received the ...
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... Shamyl lay at his feet , pierced by two balls . How he escaped death he him- self knew not ; and his followers ascribed the happy result to miracle . The story is , that Allah breathed new life into his corpse ; and that as a council of ...
... Shamyl lay at his feet , pierced by two balls . How he escaped death he him- self knew not ; and his followers ascribed the happy result to miracle . The story is , that Allah breathed new life into his corpse ; and that as a council of ...
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... Shamyl became a marked man . The Russian authorities felt it to be of the greatest conse- quence to get him into their hands , dead or alive . The campaign . of 1839 had this for its chief object . On his part , the hero of the Caucasus ...
... Shamyl became a marked man . The Russian authorities felt it to be of the greatest conse- quence to get him into their hands , dead or alive . The campaign . of 1839 had this for its chief object . On his part , the hero of the Caucasus ...
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