The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... nature of what follows , will be able , without farther enquiry , to pass on to a more congenial article ; while ... natural and convenient to consider it as an irregular parallelogram , approaching to rectangular , which ( if we detach ...
... nature of what follows , will be able , without farther enquiry , to pass on to a more congenial article ; while ... natural and convenient to consider it as an irregular parallelogram , approaching to rectangular , which ( if we detach ...
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... nature of Arab tradition has been discussed , and it has been shown that as regards genealogical and phylar- chal reminiscences , it has peculiar claims upon our belief . † In the case of the Himyar empire , in the south of Arabia ...
... nature of Arab tradition has been discussed , and it has been shown that as regards genealogical and phylar- chal reminiscences , it has peculiar claims upon our belief . † In the case of the Himyar empire , in the south of Arabia ...
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... natural expectation , that we should find in the neighbourhood permanent memorials of ancient greatness , " graven in the rock with a pen of steel . " Notwithstanding many learned and ingenious attempts to unravel these inscrip- tions ...
... natural expectation , that we should find in the neighbourhood permanent memorials of ancient greatness , " graven in the rock with a pen of steel . " Notwithstanding many learned and ingenious attempts to unravel these inscrip- tions ...
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... nature of remote Mahometan tradi- tion . She is held to have been no less a personage than the veritable Queen of Sheba , who visited Solomon , the son of David , a thousand years before ! Her mother is said to have been one of the ...
... nature of remote Mahometan tradi- tion . She is held to have been no less a personage than the veritable Queen of Sheba , who visited Solomon , the son of David , a thousand years before ! Her mother is said to have been one of the ...
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... natural . The author of the Periplus mentions Caribael as reigning at Zhafâr . This is supposed to have been about 200 A. D. Caribael may either have been this Abu Cariba - al Himyarî , or his father Calay Cariba - al Himyarî . ( C. de ...
... natural . The author of the Periplus mentions Caribael as reigning at Zhafâr . This is supposed to have been about 200 A. D. Caribael may either have been this Abu Cariba - al Himyarî , or his father Calay Cariba - al Himyarî . ( C. de ...
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