Selections from the Kur-án, Volume 30; Volume 457Trübner, 1879 - 173 pages |
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... lived to test his dream , might for once have learnt the lesson of defeat . Witnessing the struggle and fall of one and another of the great tyrannies of antiquity , yet never entering the arena of the fight ; - swept on its northern ...
... lived to test his dream , might for once have learnt the lesson of defeat . Witnessing the struggle and fall of one and another of the great tyrannies of antiquity , yet never entering the arena of the fight ; - swept on its northern ...
Page xiii
... lived the aimless , satisfied life of some child ; he sought no change ; he was supremely content with the exquisite sense of simple existence ; he was happy because he lived . He wished no more . He dreaded the dark After - death ; he ...
... lived the aimless , satisfied life of some child ; he sought no change ; he was supremely content with the exquisite sense of simple existence ; he was happy because he lived . He wished no more . He dreaded the dark After - death ; he ...
Page xvi
... lived mainly by plunder . His land did not yield him food - unless it were dates , the Bedawee's bread - and he relied on the success of his foraging expeditions for his support . These he conducted with perfect good - breeding ; he ...
... lived mainly by plunder . His land did not yield him food - unless it were dates , the Bedawee's bread - and he relied on the success of his foraging expeditions for his support . These he conducted with perfect good - breeding ; he ...
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... which is a treasury of Arab life , and abounds in those anecdotes which reveal more of the character of the people than whole volumes of ethnological treatise . lived his happy child's life , enjoying to the uttermost xxii INTRODUCTION .
... which is a treasury of Arab life , and abounds in those anecdotes which reveal more of the character of the people than whole volumes of ethnological treatise . lived his happy child's life , enjoying to the uttermost xxii INTRODUCTION .
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... lived but in to - day and yesterday . The future is nought to him ; he seizes the present with too thorough abandonment to have an emotion left for anything beyond . He troubles him- self not with what fate the morrow may bring forth ...
... lived but in to - day and yesterday . The future is nought to him ; he seizes the present with too thorough abandonment to have an emotion left for anything beyond . He troubles him- self not with what fate the morrow may bring forth ...
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