The People of PersiaReligious Tract Society, 1799 - 192 pàgines |
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Pàgina 20
... effect rather than use , but some of them are occasionally used to contain curious orna- mental articles . Plastering is also often wrought into various diamonds , and curious geometrical figures , and into arabesques , flowers , and ...
... effect rather than use , but some of them are occasionally used to contain curious orna- mental articles . Plastering is also often wrought into various diamonds , and curious geometrical figures , and into arabesques , flowers , and ...
Pàgina 47
... effect . They are also very clever at irony and punning . Endowed with a supple and intriguing dis- position , they have agreeable manners , and extreme politeness ; but this politeness is little better them a jargon of high - flown ...
... effect . They are also very clever at irony and punning . Endowed with a supple and intriguing dis- position , they have agreeable manners , and extreme politeness ; but this politeness is little better them a jargon of high - flown ...
Pàgina 52
... effect does not , in the same notable degree , flow from the same cause in Turkey . Its chief source is to be sought for in the native character of the Persians . Their imaginative- ness of mind , and their love of the marvellous 52 THE ...
... effect does not , in the same notable degree , flow from the same cause in Turkey . Its chief source is to be sought for in the native character of the Persians . Their imaginative- ness of mind , and their love of the marvellous 52 THE ...
Pàgina 53
... effect ; for they will sometimes deceive for the mere sake of pleasing . Their vanity , also , and their love of self , are powerful auxiliaries ; and their inordinate fondness for favour , gain , and emolument , leads them to make many ...
... effect ; for they will sometimes deceive for the mere sake of pleasing . Their vanity , also , and their love of self , are powerful auxiliaries ; and their inordinate fondness for favour , gain , and emolument , leads them to make many ...
Pàgina 89
... effect of this frequent and touching commemoration , ( which we shall have occasion to describe , ) would naturally be to excite a spirit of en- thusiastic reverence for the martyr who died by the hands of his enemies . And so it is ...
... effect of this frequent and touching commemoration , ( which we shall have occasion to describe , ) would naturally be to excite a spirit of en- thusiastic reverence for the martyr who died by the hands of his enemies . And so it is ...
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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
Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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?
Pàgina 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.