The People of PersiaReligious Tract Society, 1799 - 192 pages |
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... tion . The climate is very various . It is not more affected by the difference of latitude than by the remarkable inequalities of surface in almost all the provinces . The greater part of the country is a succession of plains , at the ...
... tion . The climate is very various . It is not more affected by the difference of latitude than by the remarkable inequalities of surface in almost all the provinces . The greater part of the country is a succession of plains , at the ...
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... tion . " . The doors by which the mud walls are thus pierced , lead by a narrow , blind passage , to open courts or squares , on the further side of which , and sometimes on all sides , is the dwell- ing . If the buildings occupy but ...
... tion . " . The doors by which the mud walls are thus pierced , lead by a narrow , blind passage , to open courts or squares , on the further side of which , and sometimes on all sides , is the dwell- ing . If the buildings occupy but ...
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... tion was followed by this operation of baking bread , which there were thus frequent oppor- tunities of observing . But the baking of bread is not the only use of the tanoor , or oven of the peasants . It serves also the important ...
... tion was followed by this operation of baking bread , which there were thus frequent oppor- tunities of observing . But the baking of bread is not the only use of the tanoor , or oven of the peasants . It serves also the important ...
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... tion from the society of foreigners , and profit by their knowledge ; they receive them kindly , patronize them , tolerate their religion , and seem generally to regard them with pity rather than with contempt . In illness and ...
... tion from the society of foreigners , and profit by their knowledge ; they receive them kindly , patronize them , tolerate their religion , and seem generally to regard them with pity rather than with contempt . In illness and ...
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... tion . I have repeatedly heard them compli- ment a person , either in his hearing or in the presence of some one who would convey the adulation to his ears ; and the instant that he has departed , their praises have turned into abuse ...
... tion . I have repeatedly heard them compli- ment a person , either in his hearing or in the presence of some one who would convey the adulation to his ears ; and the instant that he has departed , their praises have turned into abuse ...
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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.