To Bagdad and BackCentury Company, 1928 - 298 páginas |
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... temples among whose ruins Mary and the Child sought shelter from the wrath of Herod ; old , nay , hoary with age when Moses , the Infant of the Nile led forth half a million freed slaves and gave them an Empire and a Book . Set back the ...
... temples among whose ruins Mary and the Child sought shelter from the wrath of Herod ; old , nay , hoary with age when Moses , the Infant of the Nile led forth half a million freed slaves and gave them an Empire and a Book . Set back the ...
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... temples and palaces , although at Barsiffa , three hundred miles away , still stands the tower of Babel credited in Genesis as being the first building after the Deluge . And again the Ctesiphon Arch , as well as the Ishtar Gate , at ...
... temples and palaces , although at Barsiffa , three hundred miles away , still stands the tower of Babel credited in Genesis as being the first building after the Deluge . And again the Ctesiphon Arch , as well as the Ishtar Gate , at ...
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... clattered into the age - old city of tombs and temples , minarets and mud , saints and smells - the draggled , disheveled shell of what was once the metropolis of the ancient world Chastened in spirit , I continued my rambles about the.
... clattered into the age - old city of tombs and temples , minarets and mud , saints and smells - the draggled , disheveled shell of what was once the metropolis of the ancient world Chastened in spirit , I continued my rambles about the.
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... Temple cere- monial in New York were cool and refreshing in comparison . To rest my weary anatomy , I changed cars at this junction , seating myself beside Jerry Nairn , one of the Nairn brothers , who came to Palestine from Australia ...
... Temple cere- monial in New York were cool and refreshing in comparison . To rest my weary anatomy , I changed cars at this junction , seating myself beside Jerry Nairn , one of the Nairn brothers , who came to Palestine from Australia ...
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... temples surrounded by their students and discussed with them all manner of philosophy , poetry , religion , and kindred topics . Centuries ago these old profes- sors practiced a method of teaching which you are beginning to realize is ...
... temples surrounded by their students and discussed with them all manner of philosophy , poetry , religion , and kindred topics . Centuries ago these old profes- sors practiced a method of teaching which you are beginning to realize is ...
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Africa American ancient Arabian Nights Arabic Bagdad baksheesh banks began Beirut Bethlehem blue Blue Nile boys British Cairo called camel caravans centuries Chaldea CHAPTER Christ Christian civilization color consul Damascus declared desert distance donkeys dreams dust East Egypt Egyptian England English eyes feel feet gazed glory hand Holy Land hour human hundred Iraq Jeff Jerusalem Jews Khartoum King live looked Mesopotamia miles millions Mohammed Mohammedan morning Moslem mosque nation native never Nile o'clock Omar Khayyám Omdurman once Orient palace Palestine Pasha passed Persia picture pyramids race railroad region reminded river Rubáiyát of Omar ruins sand scene seemed sheik Shullas Siddik Esee smiled Sowash stars stood story streets Sudan Sudanese Syrian Syrian Desert Temple Thou thought thousand Tigris tiny tion told tomb tower trees valley visited Wady Halfa walls women wonder Zaghloul
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Página 148 - Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Página 16 - Awake! for morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And lo! the hunter of the east has caught The sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Página 98 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Página 296 - Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me - in vain!
Página 111 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End!
Página 296 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Página 84 - And those who husbanded the Golden grain, And those who flung it to the winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
Página 136 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Página 250 - Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give — and take ! KUZA-NAMA LIX Listen again.
Página 84 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep ; And Bahrain, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.