The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... reader , 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 ...
... reader , 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 ...
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... reader ; and we purpose , therefore , to throw it together in as brief a form as may be possible . The reader , to whom the subject is uninviting , now fully forewarned of the nature of what follows , will be able , without farther ...
... reader ; and we purpose , therefore , to throw it together in as brief a form as may be possible . The reader , to whom the subject is uninviting , now fully forewarned of the nature of what follows , will be able , without farther ...
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... reader has no doubt followed , with 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 ...
... reader has no doubt followed , with 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 ...
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... reader will not fail to observe that the Arab histories contain no farther clue to this memorable inroad of the Roman army . Yet it was a circumstance which , from its unprece- dented novelty , from the lasting marks of devastation ...
... reader will not fail to observe that the Arab histories contain no farther clue to this memorable inroad of the Roman army . Yet it was a circumstance which , from its unprece- dented novelty , from the lasting marks of devastation ...
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... reader will not fail to observe the ridiculous " fore- shadowing " of Mahomet's flight to Medina . ( See Journal Asiatique , November , 1838 , p . 444. ) Two valuable papers by M. PERRON , in that and the previous num- ber , may be ...
... reader will not fail to observe the ridiculous " fore- shadowing " of Mahomet's flight to Medina . ( See Journal Asiatique , November , 1838 , p . 444. ) Two valuable papers by M. PERRON , in that and the previous num- ber , may be ...
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