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... praying for your long life . ' And to this language he steadfastly adhered . When I perceived that he spoke in sincerity , and not out of mere etiquette , I assigned him a yearly stipend of 1200 gold miscals , payable from the Nishapúr ...
... praying for your long life . ' And to this language he steadfastly adhered . When I perceived that he spoke in sincerity , and not out of mere etiquette , I assigned him a yearly stipend of 1200 gold miscals , payable from the Nishapúr ...
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... prayers , and of disguising his private opinions , but for all that , they were no secret . In astronomy and in philosophy he was with- out a rival , and his eminence in those sciences would have passed into a proverb had he only ...
... prayers , and of disguising his private opinions , but for all that , they were no secret . In astronomy and in philosophy he was with- out a rival , and his eminence in those sciences would have passed into a proverb had he only ...
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... prayer , ' Tis prayer that church - bells chime unto the air ; Yea , Church and Ka'ba , Rosary and Cross , Are all but divers tongues of world - wide prayer . 23. ( 35 ) " Twas writ at first , whatever was to be , By pen unheeding bliss ...
... prayer , ' Tis prayer that church - bells chime unto the air ; Yea , Church and Ka'ba , Rosary and Cross , Are all but divers tongues of world - wide prayer . 23. ( 35 ) " Twas writ at first , whatever was to be , By pen unheeding bliss ...
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... prayer and fasting when my heart inclined , All my desire I surely hoped to find ; Alas ! my purity is stained with wine , My prayers are wasted like a breath of wind . 97. ( 183. ) Why spend life in vainglorious essay All Being and Not ...
... prayer and fasting when my heart inclined , All my desire I surely hoped to find ; Alas ! my purity is stained with wine , My prayers are wasted like a breath of wind . 97. ( 183. ) Why spend life in vainglorious essay All Being and Not ...
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... prayer . 115. ( 206. ) For me heaven's sphere no music ever made , Nor yet with soothing voice my fears allayed ; If e'er I found brief respite from my woes , Back to woe's thrall I was at once betrayed . 116. ( 207. ) Sooner with half ...
... prayer . 115. ( 206. ) For me heaven's sphere no music ever made , Nor yet with soothing voice my fears allayed ; If e'er I found brief respite from my woes , Back to woe's thrall I was at once betrayed . 116. ( 207. ) Sooner with half ...
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