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... souls 68 The future state and transmigration of souls Hindu Sects 69 The Casts 71 The Pariahs or Chandalahs . 73 74 175 176 78 PART II . The Peculiarities in the Creed of the Hindu , which stand in the way of Conversion to the Christian ...
... souls 68 The future state and transmigration of souls Hindu Sects 69 The Casts 71 The Pariahs or Chandalahs . 73 74 175 176 78 PART II . The Peculiarities in the Creed of the Hindu , which stand in the way of Conversion to the Christian ...
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... souls , as well as the custom of leaving a camel to perish on the grave of the master , who might require his services in another world , attested their belief of a general resur- rection : The funeral rites were duly paid , We bound a ...
... souls , as well as the custom of leaving a camel to perish on the grave of the master , who might require his services in another world , attested their belief of a general resur- rection : The funeral rites were duly paid , We bound a ...
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... souls , or that he excluded them from Paradise . There are , on the contrary , passages in the Koran3 which affirm , that women , in the next life , will not only be punished for their evil actions , but will also receive the reward of ...
... souls , or that he excluded them from Paradise . There are , on the contrary , passages in the Koran3 which affirm , that women , in the next life , will not only be punished for their evil actions , but will also receive the reward of ...
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... soul not to energy for some great object , but to indifference , languor , and the submis- sion that means despair , the patience of a Turk must even yet oftentimes awaken our homage and our shame3 . The Persian poets , too , and ...
... soul not to energy for some great object , but to indifference , languor , and the submis- sion that means despair , the patience of a Turk must even yet oftentimes awaken our homage and our shame3 . The Persian poets , too , and ...
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... soul's virtues into flower1 . " The temple of Mecca has been held in singular veneration by the Arabs from great antiquity . The Mahometans are generally persuaded that the Caaba is almost coeval with the world ; that Adam , after his ...
... soul's virtues into flower1 . " The temple of Mecca has been held in singular veneration by the Arabs from great antiquity . The Mahometans are generally persuaded that the Caaba is almost coeval with the world ; that Adam , after his ...
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