Travels in Mesopotamia, Volumen1H. Colburn, 1827 - 571 páginas |
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... dress , manners , and lan- guage of the country , were adopted , and continued throughout the whole of the way ; and that the utmost care was taken to ensure as much accuracy as was attainable , by recording all the observations that ...
... dress , manners , and lan- guage of the country , were adopted , and continued throughout the whole of the way ; and that the utmost care was taken to ensure as much accuracy as was attainable , by recording all the observations that ...
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... dress and arms were like those of his nephew , Hadjee Abd- el - Ateef , a young man of twenty - five , who had accompanied his venerable uncle on the pilgrimage . The former consisted of the blue cloth sherwal , jubba , and benish , of ...
... dress and arms were like those of his nephew , Hadjee Abd- el - Ateef , a young man of twenty - five , who had accompanied his venerable uncle on the pilgrimage . The former consisted of the blue cloth sherwal , jubba , and benish , of ...
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... dress of the females was mostly of blue cotton cloth ; some of the younger girls were pretty , and all had fairer and more ruddy complexions than we had lately been accustomed to see . From hence , the high range of Mount Taurus was ...
... dress of the females was mostly of blue cotton cloth ; some of the younger girls were pretty , and all had fairer and more ruddy complexions than we had lately been accustomed to see . From hence , the high range of Mount Taurus was ...
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... dress and arms were plain , yet of the best qualities of their kind ; before his tent were two fine mares , well caparisoned , and every thing about his establishment wore an appearance of wealth and comfort . Others of the caravan ...
... dress and arms were plain , yet of the best qualities of their kind ; before his tent were two fine mares , well caparisoned , and every thing about his establishment wore an appearance of wealth and comfort . Others of the caravan ...
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... dress of the men is nearly the same as at Aleppo ; and among them are quite as great a proportion of green - turbanned Shereefs . † It would seem remarkable that these immediate descendants of the Prophet should be so numerous ...
... dress of the men is nearly the same as at Aleppo ; and among them are quite as great a proportion of green - turbanned Shereefs . † It would seem remarkable that these immediate descendants of the Prophet should be so numerous ...
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Aleppo ancient appearance Arabs Arbela arch Arrian Babylon Bagdad banks bazārs Belus Benjamin of Tudela bricks building built called camels caravan caravanserai castle centre chief chiefly Christians colour court Ctesiphon D'Anville Desert Diarbekr distance dress dwellings east eastern Edessa edifice Egypt encamped Euphrates feet fifty gardens gate going ground Hadjee halted height Herodotus Hillah hills horses hour hundred inhabitants inscriptions journey khan Koords l'Euphrate le Tigre Mardin masonry Memoir Mesopotamia miles minarets Mohammedan mosque mounds mountains Mousul nearly night Nineveh Nisibeen Nisibis observed Orfah palace party Pasha passed Persian piastres plain portion present qu'il remains Rennel Rich river road Roman ruins says seemed seen Seleucia Sheikh side Sinjar square stadia stone Strabo stream summit sun-set Syria Tartars temple tent thought thousand Tigre Tigris tomb towers town travellers Turkish Turks village Wahabis walls whole Yezeedis Yézidis
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Página 417 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Página 303 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Página 230 - 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.
Página 70 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to -go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Página 428 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Página 303 - The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, And of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: And there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases ; And there is none end of their corpses ; they stumble upon their corpses...
Página 441 - Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Página 229 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him; and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, ' Give this man place ;' and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
Página 309 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it...
Página 19 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.