The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... never reach the sea : but here and there between the hills , the soil is fertilized by the streams or fountains ; and the Wâdi or Oasis , contrasting with the wild bleak wilderness around , charms the traveller with an unspeakable ...
... never reach the sea : but here and there between the hills , the soil is fertilized by the streams or fountains ; and the Wâdi or Oasis , contrasting with the wild bleak wilderness around , charms the traveller with an unspeakable ...
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... to the borders of Egypt . + Waekidi , p . 50 . See also the account of an embassy from Mahomet to certain rulers in Ammân . ( Wûckidi , p . 50 } ) from which it never recovered ; and it is remarked GHASSANIDE DYNASTY , 37.
... to the borders of Egypt . + Waekidi , p . 50 . See also the account of an embassy from Mahomet to certain rulers in Ammân . ( Wûckidi , p . 50 } ) from which it never recovered ; and it is remarked GHASSANIDE DYNASTY , 37.
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... never permitted the successful encroachment of foreign arms . But the dynasties of Hîra and the Ghassânides were native to Arabia , and composed of materials which blended with the Arab mind , and struck an impression upon it . Both in ...
... never permitted the successful encroachment of foreign arms . But the dynasties of Hîra and the Ghassânides were native to Arabia , and composed of materials which blended with the Arab mind , and struck an impression upon it . Both in ...
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... never traced his pedigree higher than Adnân , * and de- clared all who went further back guilty of fabrication and falsehood . Even in the time of Adnân , we find ourselves encompassed with legend and with doubt . Bakht - nassar , or ...
... never traced his pedigree higher than Adnân , * and de- clared all who went further back guilty of fabrication and falsehood . Even in the time of Adnân , we find ourselves encompassed with legend and with doubt . Bakht - nassar , or ...
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... never contradicted on that point by his enemies , the Jews . " I accept then the legend interpreted in this sense , that at a time more or less posterior to Nebuchadnezzar II . , some feeble relics of the race of Ishmael , desig- nated ...
... never contradicted on that point by his enemies , the Jews . " I accept then the legend interpreted in this sense , that at a time more or less posterior to Nebuchadnezzar II . , some feeble relics of the race of Ishmael , desig- nated ...
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