The Ansayrii, (or Assassins,): With Travels in the Further East, in 1850-51. Including a Visit to Ninevah, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1851 |
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... of the Men described - Mosquos - Christian Churches- Mosque of the Dancing Dervishes - Probable Population of Damascus , and of whom composed - The Castle 80 90 CONTENTS . CHAPTER VIII . Origin of Damascus - Supposed.
... of the Men described - Mosquos - Christian Churches- Mosque of the Dancing Dervishes - Probable Population of Damascus , and of whom composed - The Castle 80 90 CONTENTS . CHAPTER VIII . Origin of Damascus - Supposed.
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... Mosque and College of the Patriarch described - Birthplace and Tomb of Abraham - Moslem Veneration for Abraham - Account of the Patriarch in the Book of Jasher - Terah and Nimrod - Caves and Tombs in the Rocks described - Pillars of the ...
... Mosque and College of the Patriarch described - Birthplace and Tomb of Abraham - Moslem Veneration for Abraham - Account of the Patriarch in the Book of Jasher - Terah and Nimrod - Caves and Tombs in the Rocks described - Pillars of the ...
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... mosque and many pretty cafés . On our return , we rode through the Armenian quarter , almost destroyed a few years ago by fire , but now in process of rebuilding . The Saracenic bridge — a stone work -over the Meles is well worth a ...
... mosque and many pretty cafés . On our return , we rode through the Armenian quarter , almost destroyed a few years ago by fire , but now in process of rebuilding . The Saracenic bridge — a stone work -over the Meles is well worth a ...
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... mosques appearing amidst the other buildings ; the quaint old domes , the spiral cypress in large groves ; the various - hued mountains , and far off , the high land of Scio floating on the sea . Round the hills are numerous traces of ...
... mosques appearing amidst the other buildings ; the quaint old domes , the spiral cypress in large groves ; the various - hued mountains , and far off , the high land of Scio floating on the sea . Round the hills are numerous traces of ...
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... mosque with its domed roof or minaret appears , and the fragile building speaks , how truly , in its contrast to the massive walls and ponderous works of former rulers , that the battle is not always to the strong . On the northern ...
... mosque with its domed roof or minaret appears , and the fragile building speaks , how truly , in its contrast to the massive walls and ponderous works of former rulers , that the battle is not always to the strong . On the northern ...
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Aintab Aleppo amidst ancient Ansayrii antique appears Arabs arches Armenian arrived baggage banks bazaars beauty Bedawee beneath Beyrout built called carpets castle Christians church Constantinople curious Dahhal Damascus Desert Diarbekr Djebel dress East Eastern encampment entered Euphrates feet fellow gardens gate half Hamath hand handsome Haran hill Homs horses houses huge Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants inscription khan Koords Latakia Mahomet mare Maronite minaret Montselim Moslem mosque Mosul mountains Mussulman nargilleh native night Orfa ornamented passed perhaps piastres pipe plain poor portions prayer pretty probably Prophet river road rock rode round ruins Saphi Saracenic seemed servants sheik sherbets side Sidon smoke spot Stamboul standing stone Sultan Syria tents Terah tobacco tombs tower town traveller trees tribe trousers Turkish Turkomans Turks village visited walk walls whole wild women
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Page 69 - Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted : they have torn me, and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Page 154 - The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.
Page 221 - And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
Page 125 - ... ought, if you can, to go on the first and hold back the bough of the rose-tree. And through this wilderness there tumbles a loud rushing stream, which is halted at last in the lowest corner of the garden, and there tossed up in a fountain by the side of the simple alcove. This is all. Never for an instant will the people of Damascus attempt to separate the idea of bliss from these wild gardens and rushing waters.
Page 184 - See the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very tombs now vanished like their dead!
Page 354 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing mill be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Page 55 - Of those who have made a schism in their religion, and are divided into various sects, every sect rejoice in their own opinion.
Page 224 - Go to her tomb and there thou wilt find a weed. Pluck it, place it in a reed, and inhale the smoke as you put fire to it. This will be to you wife and mother, father and brother, and, above all, will be a wise counsellor and teach thy soul wisdom and thy spirit joy.
Page 214 - That in the latter days there should be men who should bear the name of Moslems, but should not be really such; and that they should smoke a certain weed, which should be called TOBACCO." However, the eastern nations are generally so addicted to both, that they say, "A dish of coffee and a pipe of tobacco are a complete entertainment;" and the Persians have a proverb that coffee without tobacco...
Page 55 - Be constant in prayer, and give alms ; and what good ye have sent before for your souls, ye shall find it with God; surely God seeth that which ye do.