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Page xiii
... never so much himself , it is all nothing , it does him no good , till poor Mordecai is hanged out of his way . " But I never feared the being censured upon that account . Here in the University , I converse with none but persons of the ...
... never so much himself , it is all nothing , it does him no good , till poor Mordecai is hanged out of his way . " But I never feared the being censured upon that account . Here in the University , I converse with none but persons of the ...
Page xix
... Never was there any person yet that inquired after the age of Livy , in order to know how far he might be accounted a competent relator of what was done in the reigns of Romulus and Numa Pompilius . In these cases it is , as that ...
... Never was there any person yet that inquired after the age of Livy , in order to know how far he might be accounted a competent relator of what was done in the reigns of Romulus and Numa Pompilius . In these cases it is , as that ...
Page xxi
... never likely to be reconciled so long as Mohammed- anism itself shall exist . Some of the Turks , indeed , interpret that fable of Mohammed's having divided the moon , and , after holding one half of it for some time in his sleeve ...
... never likely to be reconciled so long as Mohammed- anism itself shall exist . Some of the Turks , indeed , interpret that fable of Mohammed's having divided the moon , and , after holding one half of it for some time in his sleeve ...
Page xxiv
... never met with such folks in their lives as these Arabians ! They never heard too , they said , of these things before , which they of course must have done , if any body else had . A reverend dignitary asked me , if , when I wrote that ...
... never met with such folks in their lives as these Arabians ! They never heard too , they said , of these things before , which they of course must have done , if any body else had . A reverend dignitary asked me , if , when I wrote that ...
Page xxv
... never so young ; and so great was the respect paid to them , that their authority would turn the scale in almost any debate . For the Saracens preferred to go to a very great extremity , rather than reject the advice of a companion of ...
... never so young ; and so great was the respect paid to them , that their authority would turn the scale in almost any debate . For the Saracens preferred to go to a very great extremity , rather than reject the advice of a companion of ...
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Page 263 - I have taken (said Amrou to the caliph) the great city of the west. It is impossible for me to enumerate the variety of its riches and beauty ; and I shall content myself with observing, that it contains four thousand palaces, four thousand baths, four hundred theatres or places of amusement, twelve thousand shops for the sale of vegetable food, and forty thousand tributary Jews. The town has been subdued by force of arms, without treaty or capitulation, and the Moslems are impatient to seize the...