The People of PersiaReligious Tract Society, 1799 - 192 pages |
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... probably by any other Asiatic nation that has remained in the same land in which their progenitors lived , and come down unbroken from so early a period . This is not the case , however , with the territorial limits of the country ...
... probably by any other Asiatic nation that has remained in the same land in which their progenitors lived , and come down unbroken from so early a period . This is not the case , however , with the territorial limits of the country ...
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... ( probably from its having some rough resemblance to what we call Roman cement , ) especially when , as is often the case , the margins of the doors and windows are dressed with white plaster , which , alternating with the spaces of brown ...
... ( probably from its having some rough resemblance to what we call Roman cement , ) especially when , as is often the case , the margins of the doors and windows are dressed with white plaster , which , alternating with the spaces of brown ...
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... probably known to most of our readers that these carpets , which are so much prized by us , under the name of " Turkey carpets , " are really the manufacture of Persia . The walls in the interior of the rooms are not dead surfaces , but ...
... probably known to most of our readers that these carpets , which are so much prized by us , under the name of " Turkey carpets , " are really the manufacture of Persia . The walls in the interior of the rooms are not dead surfaces , but ...
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... probably , the practice has been adopted in our courts of law at Westminster Hall . An attending servant raises the curtain at the approach of a visitor , and drops it when he has entered . B CHAPTER III . HABITS OF LIFE . THE daily ...
... probably , the practice has been adopted in our courts of law at Westminster Hall . An attending servant raises the curtain at the approach of a visitor , and drops it when he has entered . B CHAPTER III . HABITS OF LIFE . THE daily ...
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... probably engaged with them till nine o'clock , listening to the reports of the morning , settling disputes , and arranging domestic concerns . It is the time for him to visit the court of the prince or governor , where he pays his obei ...
... probably engaged with them till nine o'clock , listening to the reports of the morning , settling disputes , and arranging domestic concerns . It is the time for him to visit the court of the prince or governor , where he pays his obei ...
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Abraham Abubekr Amer ancient appear Arabian Arabic Armenians Baghdad believe British and Foreign caliph caliphat called carpets Caspian Sea chief Christ Christian claims courts death declare descendants dish Divine doctrine dove's dung earth Euphrates European faith favour give gospel habit hand Harro Hassan honour Hossein houses imaum inhabitants Isfahan Islam Jews Justin Perkins Kerbelah Koran Kufah learned Lord Martyn matter Mecca medan Meerza ment Meshid missionaries Mohammed Mohammedan mollah Moses Moslem Moslem doctors mosques Nadir Shah nations observed occasion Omar peculiar Persian language Persians person pilgrimage plastered prayers present priest prince principles prophet racter Ramazan received regard religion religious respect Romanist roof sacred says scarcely Scott Waring Scripture sect servant Shah Sheahs sheikh-ul-islam Shiraz Sooffeeism Sooffees successor Sunnees supposed thee tion translation truth Turkey Turks unclean unto usually walls whole words worship Yezid
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Page 58 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Page 179 - And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Page 178 - And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee : Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly ; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Page 57 - I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Page 179 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth. and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Page 42 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 58 - Nay, my lord, hear me : the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee ; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
Page 155 - Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Page 130 - Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst 1 leave it, and come down to you?
Page 58 - My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.