Dreams of Yesterdays: (In the Orient).

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Cochrane Publishing Company, 1908 - 127 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 52 - God is Great! God is Great! I bear witness there is no other God but God ! I bear witness that Mohammed is the Prophet of God! Come to Prayer! Come to Prayer! Come unto Salvation! God is Great! God is Great! There is no other God but God!
Σελίδα 52 - God most high ! I bear witness that there is no God but God : I bear witness that Mahomet is the Prophet of God. Come to prayer ; come to the asylum of salvation. Great God ! There is no God but God...
Σελίδα 56 - And this stream is the inestimable inexhausted treasure of Damascus. The habitations of men must always have been gathered round it, as the Nile has inevitably attracted an immemorial population to its banks. The desert is a fortification round Damascus. The river is its life. It is drawn out into watercourses, and spread in all directions. For miles around it is a wilderness of gardens — gardens with roses among the tangled shrubberies, and with fruit on the branches overhead. Everywhere among...
Σελίδα 117 - ... Animals were held sacred because they were thought to embody some deity, or manifest certain qualities common with the gods. The central figure in this particular form of worship was Apis, the sacred bull. A'pis. A'pis, the Bull of Memphis, was worshipped with the greatest reverence by the Egyptians. He was supposed to be the incarnation of Osiris, the god of the under world. The individual animal who was held to be Apis was recognized by certain signs. It was requisite that he should be quite...
Σελίδα 57 - Straight;' to see the wall from which St. Paul was let down in a basket...
Σελίδα 12 - Ferdinand, the crown and sceptre of Isabella, a missal, and some other ornaments of the King and Queen.

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