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... spirit , and pleasantly told ; but we agree with M. Renan in thinking that there is no great exhibition of critical power on the part of the biographer . It remains to say a few words upon the Lec- tures , by the author of ' Loss and ...
... spirit , and pleasantly told ; but we agree with M. Renan in thinking that there is no great exhibition of critical power on the part of the biographer . It remains to say a few words upon the Lec- tures , by the author of ' Loss and ...
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... spirit on their own part . Great energy and strength of will seem conspicuous among them ; and the strong attachment between those of the same tribe produced , as of old among the High- land clans of our own kingdom , much pure and ...
... spirit on their own part . Great energy and strength of will seem conspicuous among them ; and the strong attachment between those of the same tribe produced , as of old among the High- land clans of our own kingdom , much pure and ...
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... spirit is en- gendered by the frequent use of camel's flesh as food ; the camel being an animal most revengeful and tenacious of its anger : but the genuine Arab would hardly , we suspect , care to invent this , or any other palliation ...
... spirit is en- gendered by the frequent use of camel's flesh as food ; the camel being an animal most revengeful and tenacious of its anger : but the genuine Arab would hardly , we suspect , care to invent this , or any other palliation ...
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... spirit of a barbaric race , untaught by civilization even to approximate to a just estimate of the gifts of any nation , beyond themselves , yet the critiques of Oriental scholars seem to justify the Arabs in not thinking meanly of the ...
... spirit of a barbaric race , untaught by civilization even to approximate to a just estimate of the gifts of any nation , beyond themselves , yet the critiques of Oriental scholars seem to justify the Arabs in not thinking meanly of the ...
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... spirit and purpose . ' Here , as in some other respects , this distinguished writer is perhaps paullò iniquior to the countrymen of Mahomet . Their loves , their liberality , their hospitality , their pride in their steeds , their ...
... spirit and purpose . ' Here , as in some other respects , this distinguished writer is perhaps paullò iniquior to the countrymen of Mahomet . Their loves , their liberality , their hospitality , their pride in their steeds , their ...
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Page 73 - We have had enough of action, and of motion we, Roll'd to starboard, roll'd to larboard, when the surge was seething free, Where the wallowing monster spouted his foamfountains in the sea. Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Page 76 - They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; To gods whom they knew not, To new gods that came newly up, Whom your fathers feared not.
Page 76 - But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God : and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils : ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
Page 76 - And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: And the land was polluted with blood.
Page 30 - Ishmael was to become a great nation, — that he was to be a wild man, — his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him.
Page 28 - Yet these exceptions are temporary or local ; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies ; the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia...
Page 69 - O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows, are an abomination of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper.
Page 82 - O men, verily we have created you of a male and a female ; and we have distributed you into nations, and tribes, that ye might know one another. Verily the most honourable of you, in the sight of GOD, is the most pious of you : and GOD is wise and knowing.
Page 86 - is essentially religious, and the offspring of the Koran, as Gothic architecture is of the Bible ; the prohibition to represent animal life caused them to seek for other means of decoration— inscriptions from the Koran, interwoven with geometrical ornaments, and flowers, not drawn decidedly from nature, but translated through the loom, for it would seem that the Arabs, in changing their wandering for a settled life, in striking the tent to plant it in a form more solid...
Page 128 - Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.