The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 8J. Ridgeway amd sons, 1839 - English periodicals |
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... Arabic writers themselves . It was not , therefore , until a few years ago , that Conde withdrew the veil which covered this part of Spanish history . That learned author , after devoting many years of his life to the perusal of the Arabic ...
... Arabic writers themselves . It was not , therefore , until a few years ago , that Conde withdrew the veil which covered this part of Spanish history . That learned author , after devoting many years of his life to the perusal of the Arabic ...
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... Arabic language and antiquities , —since it still retains many of the customs and man- ners introduced by the conquerors , with a language which owes a great deal of its richness and flexibility to the Arabic be- sides one eighth of its ...
... Arabic language and antiquities , —since it still retains many of the customs and man- ners introduced by the conquerors , with a language which owes a great deal of its richness and flexibility to the Arabic be- sides one eighth of its ...
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... Arabs , distinguished from them by few pe- culiarities , and whose history almost reaches to our own times , should be ... Arabic letters , forming a literature of their own which lay unnoticed , if not altogether forgotten , in most of ...
... Arabs , distinguished from them by few pe- culiarities , and whose history almost reaches to our own times , should be ... Arabic letters , forming a literature of their own which lay unnoticed , if not altogether forgotten , in most of ...
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... Arabic , although with the Latin or " Spanish letters † , which he supposes were intended for the " use of those who understood Arabic , although they could " not read it in Arabic letters . So while , in the first instance , they ...
... Arabic , although with the Latin or " Spanish letters † , which he supposes were intended for the " use of those who understood Arabic , although they could " not read it in Arabic letters . So while , in the first instance , they ...
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... Arabic : and we feel assured , as much by what we have read as by many important works quoted , but now we fear lost ... Arabs made their conquests with a rapidity which stands unequalled even by the Macedonian conqueror himself . Ninety ...
... Arabic : and we feel assured , as much by what we have read as by many important works quoted , but now we fear lost ... Arabs made their conquests with a rapidity which stands unequalled even by the Macedonian conqueror himself . Ninety ...
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