Works, Volume 41Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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Page 44
... whilst Klaproth quite reviles him for the stupidity which induces him to cram his readers with rigmaroles about Mahomedan saints and spiritualists , when details of the places he had seen would have been of extreme interest and value ...
... whilst Klaproth quite reviles him for the stupidity which induces him to cram his readers with rigmaroles about Mahomedan saints and spiritualists , when details of the places he had seen would have been of extreme interest and value ...
Page 62
... whilst recent gold discoveries are lowering it again . Minor influences of like kind no doubt acted before . Such authorities as I have been able to refer to say that in the time of the early Roman Empire the relation was 12 to 1 ...
... whilst recent gold discoveries are lowering it again . Minor influences of like kind no doubt acted before . Such authorities as I have been able to refer to say that in the time of the early Roman Empire the relation was 12 to 1 ...
Page 247
... whilst with the rest he maintained his party for a whole year . Meanwhile the caravan of merchants with their chief arrived . Bene- dict was obliged to exercise hospitality , and in course of time was reduced to such straits that he had ...
... whilst with the rest he maintained his party for a whole year . Meanwhile the caravan of merchants with their chief arrived . Bene- dict was obliged to exercise hospitality , and in course of time was reduced to such straits that he had ...
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Central Arabia third pilgrimage crosses the Red Sea and travels | 7 |
residence in India his extravagance 13 he falls into disfavour | 15 |
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