The History of Arabia: Ancient and Modern ...Harper & brothers, 1834 ... Containing a description of the country, an account of its inhabitants, antiquities, political condition, and early commerce, the life and religion of Mohammed, the conquests, arts and literature of the Saracens, the Caliphs of Damascus, Bagdad, Africa, and Spain, the civil government and religious ceremonies of the modern Arabs, oriign and suppression of the Wahabees, the institutions, character, manners and customs of the Bedouins and a comprehensive view of its natural history. |
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Página 408 - Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. —The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing."* Even the choice which the domestic ass makes of the narrow and irregular paths by the wayside
Página 336 - wounds on the assailants though she has no dislike to the lover; for the more she struggles, bites, kicks, cries, and strikes, the more she is applauded ever after by her own companions. Sometimes she escapes to the neighbouring mountains, and several days elapse before the bridegroom can find her ; her female friends, meantime, being
Página 390 - it drops from the prickles of the tamarisk upon the fallen leaves and twigs, which always cover the ground beneath the branches, in its natural state. The Arabs collect it in the morning, when it is coagulated, but it dissolves as soon as the sun shines upon it. They
Página 54 - wives, concubines, and black eunuchs, amounted to 6300 persons ; and he was attended to the field by a guard of 12,000 horsemen, whose belts and scimitars were studded with gold. Granada was equally celebrated for its luxury and its learning. The royal demesnes extended to the distance of twenty miles, the revenues of which were set apart to maintain the
Página 230 - to pierce one's heart, to behold so many in their garments of humility and mortification, with their naked heads, and cheeks watered with tears ; and to hear their grievous sighs and sobs, begging earnestly for the remission of their sins.
Página 227 - entrance to which was guarded by eunuchs in splendid dresses. Around this enclosure were pitched the tents of the men who formed her numerous suite. The beautiful embroidery on the exterior of this linen palace, with the various colours displayed in every part of it,
Página 54 - took place in the beginning of January in the year of our Lord 1492, being 3655 years from the population of Spain by the patriarch Tubai ; 3797 from the general deluge ; 5453 from the creation of the world;
Página 245 - to admit the eunuchs, whose office it is to clean the floor and light the lamps. What appears of the interior is merely a curtain carried round on all sides, resembling a bed, which is of the same height as the railing, and fills nearly the whole