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... death Ali was passed over , and the first caliph , or vicar and lieutenant of Maho- met in the government of the State was Abu - Bekr : only the spiritual inheritance of Mahomet , the dignity of Imam , or Primate , devolved by right on ...
... death Ali was passed over , and the first caliph , or vicar and lieutenant of Maho- met in the government of the State was Abu - Bekr : only the spiritual inheritance of Mahomet , the dignity of Imam , or Primate , devolved by right on ...
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... death is commanded in the writ- ing which thou wearest on thine arm . " This writing is the testament of his father Hassan . He bears it in triumph to the Imam Hussein , who finds written there that he should , on the death - plain of ...
... death is commanded in the writ- ing which thou wearest on thine arm . " This writing is the testament of his father Hassan . He bears it in triumph to the Imam Hussein , who finds written there that he should , on the death - plain of ...
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... death of the Imam himself . The narrative of Gibbon well sums up the events of this great tenth day . " The battle at length expired by the death of the last of the companions of Hussein . Alone , weary , and wounded , he seated himself ...
... death of the Imam himself . The narrative of Gibbon well sums up the events of this great tenth day . " The battle at length expired by the death of the last of the companions of Hussein . Alone , weary , and wounded , he seated himself ...
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... death , surrounded by a crowd of beings almost as badly off as herself . The next form is that of a woman , who scrapes from the ground a handful of melon - seed and filth , which she divides between her two children . " This is one ...
... death , surrounded by a crowd of beings almost as badly off as herself . The next form is that of a woman , who scrapes from the ground a handful of melon - seed and filth , which she divides between her two children . " This is one ...
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... death . I turned , flung away my alpenstock , and fled for my life . Fled blindly , breathlessly , wildly , with the horrible grinding sound of the imprisoned waterfall in my ears , and the gathering torrent at my heels ! Never while I ...
... death . I turned , flung away my alpenstock , and fled for my life . Fled blindly , breathlessly , wildly , with the horrible grinding sound of the imprisoned waterfall in my ears , and the gathering torrent at my heels ! Never while I ...
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Page 281 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Page 125 - The fair round face, the snowy beard, The velvet of her paws, Her coat that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes — She saw ; and purr'd applause.
Page 11 - But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 223 - I can give not what men call love ; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not : The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?
Page 291 - L , because he was so handsome and spirited a youth, and a king to the rest of us; and, instead of moping about in solitary corners, like some of us, he would mount the most mettlesome horse he could get, when but an imp no bigger than themselves, and make it carry him half over the...
Page 291 - And then I told how, when she came to die, her funeral was attended by a concourse of all the poor, and some of the gentry too, of the...
Page 235 - MOST sweet it is with unuplifted eyes To pace the ground, if path be there or none. While a fair region round the traveller lies Which he forbears again to look upon ; Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene, The work of Fancy, or some happy tone Of meditation, slipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone.
Page 290 - ... watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish pond at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a great sulky pike hanging midway down the water in silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings.
Page 221 - Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banished lover, or some captive maid; They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires...
Page 232 - Many a green-gown has been given, Many a kiss, both odd and even: Many a glance, too, has been sent From out the eye, love's firmament: Many a jest told of the keys...