The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... interest and curiosi- ty , the successive discoveries which have been made of Himy- ar inscriptions at Sanâ , Hisn al Ghorâb , Khariba , and Mâreb . These were ancient seats of Himyar rule , and as we are assur- ed that writing was ...
... interest and curiosi- ty , the successive discoveries which have been made of Himy- ar inscriptions at Sanâ , Hisn al Ghorâb , Khariba , and Mâreb . These were ancient seats of Himyar rule , and as we are assur- ed that writing was ...
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... interest , is told with freshness and circumstantiality , while this most striking and remarkable of all other events , is , after a lapse of five or six centuries , unnoticed and unknown ! The grand - daughter of Aleishra was the ...
... interest , is told with freshness and circumstantiality , while this most striking and remarkable of all other events , is , after a lapse of five or six centuries , unnoticed and unknown ! The grand - daughter of Aleishra was the ...
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... interest in this struggle . They needed a barrier between Syria and the Persian frontier , but they were indifferent whether it should be composed of the Bani Salîh , or of the Bani Ghassân . When the latter accord- ingly agreed to be ...
... interest in this struggle . They needed a barrier between Syria and the Persian frontier , but they were indifferent whether it should be composed of the Bani Salîh , or of the Bani Ghassân . When the latter accord- ingly agreed to be ...
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... interest , ever ready , at the most insignificant cause , to separate , as by an atomic repulsiveness , and abandon themselves to an implacable hostility . These qualities made Arabia to exhibit , like a kaleidescope , an ever varying ...
... interest , ever ready , at the most insignificant cause , to separate , as by an atomic repulsiveness , and abandon themselves to an implacable hostility . These qualities made Arabia to exhibit , like a kaleidescope , an ever varying ...
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... interest and selfishness . ' When the daughters of the superior tribes contract alli- ances with the men of inferior tribes , the dowry compen- sates for the social inferiority ; but it is the dowry of primi- tive times , that payed by ...
... interest and selfishness . ' When the daughters of the superior tribes contract alli- ances with the men of inferior tribes , the dowry compen- sates for the social inferiority ; but it is the dowry of primi- tive times , that payed by ...
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