The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... cultivation , it exhibits , for the most part , a barren and dreary waste of rock and sand . Most of the rivers lose themselves in the sandy plains , and never reach the sea : but here and there between the hills , the soil is ...
... cultivation , it exhibits , for the most part , a barren and dreary waste of rock and sand . Most of the rivers lose themselves in the sandy plains , and never reach the sea : but here and there between the hills , the soil is ...
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... cultivated poetry , and they sang only in the Arabic language : we meet with no tradition mentioning a single verse composed in the Himyar tongue . † met . * From Himyar we may pass over fifteen or twenty reigns , some of which are of ...
... cultivated poetry , and they sang only in the Arabic language : we meet with no tradition mentioning a single verse composed in the Himyar tongue . † met . * From Himyar we may pass over fifteen or twenty reigns , some of which are of ...
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... cultivation . And no doubt , many an Arab heart , before Mahomet , responded to the casually received truths of Christianity and Judaism : -many an honest Bedouin spirit confessed of the law that it was just and good many an aspiring ...
... cultivation . And no doubt , many an Arab heart , before Mahomet , responded to the casually received truths of Christianity and Judaism : -many an honest Bedouin spirit confessed of the law that it was just and good many an aspiring ...
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... cultivated lands , paying revenue to Government , while the proprietor himself , unless expressly permitted by the conservator , was prevented from cutting a piece of wood on his own property , or removing the young seedling plants that ...
... cultivated lands , paying revenue to Government , while the proprietor himself , unless expressly permitted by the conservator , was prevented from cutting a piece of wood on his own property , or removing the young seedling plants that ...
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... cultivated the power of abstraction so assiduously and so suc- cessfully , that he was quite able to conceive of a Lord Mayor apart from his sword , and his chain and his horse , yea , apart from his arms and legs and paunch , and body ...
... cultivated the power of abstraction so assiduously and so suc- cessfully , that he was quite able to conceive of a Lord Mayor apart from his sword , and his chain and his horse , yea , apart from his arms and legs and paunch , and body ...
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