The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... feet , so long , as in that notion , they may yet serve to polish and brighten the armoury of truth , even for that respect , they were not utterly to be cast away . " - MILTON . CALCUTTA : PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR , BY SANDERS ...
... feet , so long , as in that notion , they may yet serve to polish and brighten the armoury of truth , even for that respect , they were not utterly to be cast away . " - MILTON . CALCUTTA : PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR , BY SANDERS ...
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... feet ; it is the well of Zamzam . A tribe of Amalekites are tempted , by the fountain , to the spot , and among them the youthful Ishmael grows up . On an eminence in the vicinity , Abraham , in fulfilment of the divine behest , was ...
... feet ; it is the well of Zamzam . A tribe of Amalekites are tempted , by the fountain , to the spot , and among them the youthful Ishmael grows up . On an eminence in the vicinity , Abraham , in fulfilment of the divine behest , was ...
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... feet below the mouth of the well he agrees with Burkhardt as to the temperature , but states that the water is " rather brackish and heavy , but very limpid ... It is wholesome , nevertheless , and so abundant , that at the period of ...
... feet below the mouth of the well he agrees with Burkhardt as to the temperature , but states that the water is " rather brackish and heavy , but very limpid ... It is wholesome , nevertheless , and so abundant , that at the period of ...
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... feet bare- he has left his slippers at the door - the turban over his eyes- he sits upon a chair with the embarrassment of a man accus- tomed to fold his legs under him , and the lesson begins . The munshi is not deficient in knowledge ...
... feet bare- he has left his slippers at the door - the turban over his eyes- he sits upon a chair with the embarrassment of a man accus- tomed to fold his legs under him , and the lesson begins . The munshi is not deficient in knowledge ...
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... feet long , but not more than five or six inches in diameter , whereas , of the ⚫ entire quantity of full - grown timber brought to Calicut , not an eighth part will average twenty - five feet in length . Trees that are only half grown ...
... feet long , but not more than five or six inches in diameter , whereas , of the ⚫ entire quantity of full - grown timber brought to Calicut , not an eighth part will average twenty - five feet in length . Trees that are only half grown ...
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