Selections from the Kur-án, Volume 30; Volume 457Trübner, 1879 - 173 pages |
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Page xi
... earth - a people whom the great empires of the ancient world in vain essayed to conquer , against whom the power of Persia , Egypt , Rome , Byzan- tium was proven impotence , and at whose hands even the superb Alexander , had he lived ...
... earth - a people whom the great empires of the ancient world in vain essayed to conquer , against whom the power of Persia , Egypt , Rome , Byzan- tium was proven impotence , and at whose hands even the superb Alexander , had he lived ...
Page xii
... earth . Yet beneath the dried - up torrent - beds a rivulet trickles at times , and straightway there spreads a rich oasis dearly prized by the wanderers of the desert . All else is bare and desolate . Climb hill after hill , and the ...
... earth . Yet beneath the dried - up torrent - beds a rivulet trickles at times , and straightway there spreads a rich oasis dearly prized by the wanderers of the desert . All else is bare and desolate . Climb hill after hill , and the ...
Page xxix
... the Kata's downy brood , unkindly thrust from door to door as hard , Far would I roam and wide to seek my bread in earth that has no lack of breadth and length ; } Nay , but our children in our midst , THE ARABS BEFORE MOḤAMMAD . xxix.
... the Kata's downy brood , unkindly thrust from door to door as hard , Far would I roam and wide to seek my bread in earth that has no lack of breadth and length ; } Nay , but our children in our midst , THE ARABS BEFORE MOḤAMMAD . xxix.
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... his solitary wanderings with the sheep he gained that mar- vellous eye for the beauty and wonder of the earth and sky which resulted in the gorgeous nature - painting of the Kuran . Yet he was glad to change this Xxxviii INTRODUCTION .
... his solitary wanderings with the sheep he gained that mar- vellous eye for the beauty and wonder of the earth and sky which resulted in the gorgeous nature - painting of the Kuran . Yet he was glad to change this Xxxviii INTRODUCTION .
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... earth , when before they looked only towards the things of heaven ; and petty social rules , ' general orders , ' selfish permissions , are promulgated with the same authority and as from the same divine source as the command to worship ...
... earth , when before they looked only towards the things of heaven ; and petty social rules , ' general orders , ' selfish permissions , are promulgated with the same authority and as from the same divine source as the command to worship ...
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