Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 324William Blackwood, 1978 - England |
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Page 187
... learned - first , tolerance for all races and all cultures , perhaps the most valuable lesson of all . But I also learned certain specific lessons from Arab culture and temperament . Some of their practices seemed to me to be better ...
... learned - first , tolerance for all races and all cultures , perhaps the most valuable lesson of all . But I also learned certain specific lessons from Arab culture and temperament . Some of their practices seemed to me to be better ...
Page 192
... learned from the Arabs to accept disasters cheerfully , believing that God controls all that happens to us . I al- ways remained a Christian , but the belief that God rules the world is com- mon to Christianity and Islam alike ...
... learned from the Arabs to accept disasters cheerfully , believing that God controls all that happens to us . I al- ways remained a Christian , but the belief that God rules the world is com- mon to Christianity and Islam alike ...
Page 241
... learned enough from my contacts on those excursions to understand that they , on the con- trary , felt sorry for anyone obliged to leave them . What to me was an inhospitable , dangerous shore was to its inhabitants a delectable coast ...
... learned enough from my contacts on those excursions to understand that they , on the con- trary , felt sorry for anyone obliged to leave them . What to me was an inhospitable , dangerous shore was to its inhabitants a delectable coast ...
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