The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... mind is bewildered with the maze of collateral families and tribes crossing and re - crossing each other's path . M. C. de Perceval is intimately acquainted with the native historians of Arabia , and with its early poets , whose ...
... mind is bewildered with the maze of collateral families and tribes crossing and re - crossing each other's path . M. C. de Perceval is intimately acquainted with the native historians of Arabia , and with its early poets , whose ...
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... mind and tradition . The story of 2,000 years , though possessing often little 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 ...
... mind and tradition . The story of 2,000 years , though possessing often little 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 ...
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... mind and institution . Egypt , Syria , Persia , as well as the Abyssinian kingdom of Axum , adjoined on Arabia , or were severed from it only by narrow inlets of the ocean ; yet they exercised but little influence upon the social and ...
... mind and institution . Egypt , Syria , Persia , as well as the Abyssinian kingdom of Axum , adjoined on Arabia , or were severed from it only by narrow inlets of the ocean ; yet they exercised but little influence upon the social and ...
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Cussai was a man of commanding person , and of an energetic and ambitious mind . He was treated with great distinction by Holeil , the Khozâite King , who gave him his daughter Hobba in marriage , and permitted him , or his wife , to ...
Cussai was a man of commanding person , and of an energetic and ambitious mind . He was treated with great distinction by Holeil , the Khozâite King , who gave him his daughter Hobba in marriage , and permitted him , or his wife , to ...
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... mind against any Christian appeal . Simple idolatry is comparatively powerless against the attacks of reason and the Gospel , but when welded together with some principles of truth , it becomes far more impervious to human agency . The ...
... mind against any Christian appeal . Simple idolatry is comparatively powerless against the attacks of reason and the Gospel , but when welded together with some principles of truth , it becomes far more impervious to human agency . The ...
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