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... entered , low upper rooms are built , whose roofs rise but little , if at all , above those of the high ones of the lower story . The windows completely fill the whole front of the rooms , except the spaces occupied by two pillars in ...
... entered , low upper rooms are built , whose roofs rise but little , if at all , above those of the high ones of the lower story . The windows completely fill the whole front of the rooms , except the spaces occupied by two pillars in ...
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... enter the interior of a good Persian house , we forget the narrow approach , and that the walls and exterior surface are of mud . The rooms are beautifully plastered with an admirable white gypsum , much firmer , harder , and more ...
... enter the interior of a good Persian house , we forget the narrow approach , and that the walls and exterior surface are of mud . The rooms are beautifully plastered with an admirable white gypsum , much firmer , harder , and more ...
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... entered by different doors from those which conduct to the apart- ments of the family . The premises in the vil- lages are contiguous to each other for the sake of security ; and it is possible to walk over the roofs through the whole ...
... entered by different doors from those which conduct to the apart- ments of the family . The premises in the vil- lages are contiguous to each other for the sake of security ; and it is possible to walk over the roofs through the whole ...
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... entering it there , to convey air to the fire . This hole is inter- nally coated with clay , which soon hardens into tile . The bread is drawn out in thin cakes , from two to three feet long , eight or ten inches wide , and scarcely the ...
... entering it there , to convey air to the fire . This hole is inter- nally coated with clay , which soon hardens into tile . The bread is drawn out in thin cakes , from two to three feet long , eight or ten inches wide , and scarcely the ...
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... 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 routine DWELLINGS AND DOMESTIC HABITS . 3383.
... 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 routine DWELLINGS AND DOMESTIC HABITS . 3383.
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Abubekr Amer ancient appear Arabian Arabic Armenians Baghdad believe British and Foreign caliph caliphat called carpets Caspian Sea character chief Christ Christian claims courts death declare descendants dish Divine doctrine dove's dung earth Euphrates European faith favour give gospel habit hand Harro honour Hossein houses imaum inhabitants Isfahan Islam Jews Justin Perkins Kerbelah Koran Kufah learned Lord manner Martyn matter Mecca medan Meerza ment Meshid missionaries Mohammed Mohammedan mollah Moses Moslem Moslem doctors mosques nations observed occasion Omar peculiar Persian language Persians person plastered prayers present priest prince principles prophet racter Ramazan received regard religion RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY respect Romanist roof sacred says scarcely Scott Waring Scripture sect 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 children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Page 57 - I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
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 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 101 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
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 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.
Page 44 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him : but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. 25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
Page 58 - Hear us, my lord : thou art a mighty prince among us : in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead ; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
Page 136 - And he returned to the man of GOD, he and all his company, and came and stood before him : and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no GOD in all the earth, but in Israel : now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.