The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... result of his investigations is exhibited with great ingenuity and clearness , in fifteen tables or genealogical trees , in which the descent of the chief tribes and most famous personages of the Peninsula is traced up , with the ...
... result of his investigations is exhibited with great ingenuity and clearness , in fifteen tables or genealogical trees , in which the descent of the chief tribes and most famous personages of the Peninsula is traced up , with the ...
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... result of the present adventure , would favour the earlier date because there is reason for thinking that Judaism was known there before 300 A. D. The whole story is given at length by Hishami , pp . 7 et . seq , and is common among the ...
... result of the present adventure , would favour the earlier date because there is reason for thinking that Judaism was known there before 300 A. D. The whole story is given at length by Hishami , pp . 7 et . seq , and is common among the ...
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... result of the struggle may have given that turn to the legend which con- nects the fall of Zenobia with the princes of Hîra . ( M. C. de Perc , II . , p . 46. ) † M . C. de Perceval mentions on the authority of de Lequieu ( Oriens ...
... result of the struggle may have given that turn to the legend which con- nects the fall of Zenobia with the princes of Hîra . ( M. C. de Perc , II . , p . 46. ) † M . C. de Perceval mentions on the authority of de Lequieu ( Oriens ...
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... result . The Dzobiân party , by an ignoble stratagem , checked the steed of Cays , and Ghabra first reached the goal . A fierce dispute arose as to the palm of victory , and the disposal of the stakes . Arab pride and revenge soon ...
... result . The Dzobiân party , by an ignoble stratagem , checked the steed of Cays , and Ghabra first reached the goal . A fierce dispute arose as to the palm of victory , and the disposal of the stakes . Arab pride and revenge soon ...
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... results from the mesh of tiny silken thread ; nor the stately ship from the un- hewn timber of the forest : nor the splendid palace from un- shapen masses of quarried rock . Had Mahomet , stern to his first convictions , followed out ...
... results from the mesh of tiny silken thread ; nor the stately ship from the un- hewn timber of the forest : nor the splendid palace from un- shapen masses of quarried rock . Had Mahomet , stern to his first convictions , followed out ...
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