The People of PersiaReligious Tract Society, 1799 - 192 pages |
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... scarcely know whether to describe them as of two stories or of one . They are both , or neither ; or rather , partly one , and partly the other . A house consists of a range of rooms , with alternately high and low ceilings ; and over ...
... scarcely know whether to describe them as of two stories or of one . They are both , or neither ; or rather , partly one , and partly the other . A house consists of a range of rooms , with alternately high and low ceilings ; and over ...
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... scarcely the thickness of a common dinner - plate . It assumes this shape almost in a moment by the wonderful tact of the maker , who simply tosses a piece of dough rapidly from hand to hand . Thus drawn out like a mem- brane , it is ...
... scarcely the thickness of a common dinner - plate . It assumes this shape almost in a moment by the wonderful tact of the maker , who simply tosses a piece of dough rapidly from hand to hand . Thus drawn out like a mem- brane , it is ...
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... scarcely inferior to our own . We find in the best Persian dwellings , neither beds sumptuously decorated , nor tables and chairs of costly wood , nor chandeliers and lustres , nor those numberless articles of various forms and ...
... scarcely inferior to our own . We find in the best Persian dwellings , neither beds sumptuously decorated , nor tables and chairs of costly wood , nor chandeliers and lustres , nor those numberless articles of various forms and ...
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... scarcely ever to wear out , owing , perhaps , in part to the extreme dryness of the atmosphere . In Persia , a native never enters a room in boots or slippers ; and a transgression of this usage by foreigners is looked upon as the ...
... scarcely ever to wear out , owing , perhaps , in part to the extreme dryness of the atmosphere . In Persia , a native never enters a room in boots or slippers ; and a transgression of this usage by foreigners is looked upon as the ...
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... scarcely occupies half an hour . The guests sit on the felt carpet along one side , or at the top of the room , with their backs leaning against the wall ; a long narrow strip of chintz , or coloured cotton , called sofra , ( or , as we ...
... scarcely occupies half an hour . The guests sit on the felt carpet along one side , or at the top of the room , with their backs leaning against the wall ; a long narrow strip of chintz , or coloured cotton , called sofra , ( or , as we ...
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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.