The Syrian ChristHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 425 pages |
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Page vii
... thoughts of an essay , the task becomes rather difficult . How far I have suc- ceeded in my effort to relate the passages I have treated in this book to one another according to their intellectual and social affinities , the reader is ...
... thoughts of an essay , the task becomes rather difficult . How far I have suc- ceeded in my effort to relate the passages I have treated in this book to one another according to their intellectual and social affinities , the reader is ...
Page 4
... thought and life and his method of teaching , he was a Syrian of the Syrians . According to authentic history Jesus never saw any other country than Palestine . There he was born ; there he grew up to manhood , taught his Gos- pel , and ...
... thought and life and his method of teaching , he was a Syrian of the Syrians . According to authentic history Jesus never saw any other country than Palestine . There he was born ; there he grew up to manhood , taught his Gos- pel , and ...
Page 8
... thought and life in a strange land mean to him , but does that necessarily mean that his understanding of such things is also the understanding of the people of that land themselves ? With the passing of the years , this thought gains ...
... thought and life in a strange land mean to him , but does that necessarily mean that his understanding of such things is also the understanding of the people of that land themselves ? With the passing of the years , this thought gains ...
Page 9
Abraham Mitrie Rihbany. With the passing of the years , this thought gains in significance with me , as a Syrian im ... thought , the deeper I penetrate the Amer- ican spirit , the more enlightened my associa- tions become with American ...
Abraham Mitrie Rihbany. With the passing of the years , this thought gains in significance with me , as a Syrian im ... thought , the deeper I penetrate the Amer- ican spirit , the more enlightened my associa- tions become with American ...
Page 10
... thought and life of the East . But these are not of the " tourist " type . Such writers have been those who , first , had the initial wisdom to realize that the beggars for bakhsheesh in the thoroughfares of Syrian cities , and those ...
... thought and life of the East . But these are not of the " tourist " type . Such writers have been those who , first , had the initial wisdom to realize that the beggars for bakhsheesh in the thoroughfares of Syrian cities , and those ...
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