The Wanderer in SyriaDix, Edwards & Company, 1857 - 350 pages |
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... mosques , broadly striped with red and blue , and because in the shaded silence of the interior you will see the strange spec- tacle of a house of God made also a house of man . There congregate the poor and homeless , and ply their ...
... mosques , broadly striped with red and blue , and because in the shaded silence of the interior you will see the strange spec- tacle of a house of God made also a house of man . There congregate the poor and homeless , and ply their ...
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... cafés tell the old tales . The splendors of the Caliphat flash , a boreal brilliance , over an unreal past ; and Islam wanes and withers in its sunny mosques . Thus oriental life is an echo and a ghost . 12 THE HOWADJI IN SYRIA .
... cafés tell the old tales . The splendors of the Caliphat flash , a boreal brilliance , over an unreal past ; and Islam wanes and withers in its sunny mosques . Thus oriental life is an echo and a ghost . 12 THE HOWADJI IN SYRIA .
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... mosque , we saw the silent devotee steeped in the red light of the westering sun , and dreaming in his squalid rags , which the sun's golden finger touched into a gor- geous robe , of the paradise where " the comely -OUTSKIRTS.
... mosque , we saw the silent devotee steeped in the red light of the westering sun , and dreaming in his squalid rags , which the sun's golden finger touched into a gor- geous robe , of the paradise where " the comely -OUTSKIRTS.
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... mosques no less than tombs , and travellers , leaving or entering the city , pause in them to pray . But their austerity is unrelieved by the gladness of any green thing . Over our western graves , we love the sweet consolations of ...
... mosques no less than tombs , and travellers , leaving or entering the city , pause in them to pray . But their austerity is unrelieved by the gladness of any green thing . Over our western graves , we love the sweet consolations of ...
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... mosque only red and white plaster , or in the Parthenon but a mass of broken marble , should not expose himself to the trouble of con- templating those objects . There are prints of them . engraved with restored proportions , a ...
... mosque only red and white plaster , or in the Parthenon but a mass of broken marble , should not expose himself to the trouble of con- templating those objects . There are prints of them . engraved with restored proportions , a ...
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