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... also red, but with a green border and with a white crescent in it. For an Arab owned her, and a Syed at that. Hence the green border on the flag. He ... ...t “The charitable man is the friend of Allah”? Excellent (and picturesque) Arab owner, about whom one needed not to trouble one’s head, a most excelle... ..., and all bigger than herself, she looked like a creature of high breed—an Arab steed in a string of cart-horses. A voice behind me said in a nasty eq...

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...trickland, and he was in old Y oughal’s employ, attached to Miss Youghal’s Arab. The poor fellow was suffering for an English smoke, and knew that wha... ...hoofs of his horse like a Lon- don coachman! The turnout of Miss Youghal’s Arab was a wonder and a delight. Strickland—Dulloo, I mean—found his reward... ...kka-ponies with hogged manes, and a switch-tailed demirep of a mare called Arab because she has a kink in her flag. Racing leads to the shroff quicker... ...e laugh, and T rejago, knowing that, for all practical pur- poses, the old Arabian Nights are good guides, went forward to the window, and whispered t...

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...tle things, have altered. You lived in the days of the decimal system, the Arab system—tens, and little hundreds and thou- sands. We have eleven numer...

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...nevolent face, who was adjusting his scarlet cloak, before mounting a gray Arab steed looking as old and wor- thy as himself. “Ha! a young Crusader, I... ...ook- ing down from a considerable elevation upon Sir Robert on his slender Arab. “These are the German monsters that our brethren bring over,” said Si... ...ood for nothing but food for foul birds in the East. Purvey yourself of an Arab as soon as you land. There is a rogue at Acre, one Ali by name, who wi... ... we are—pilgrims grown wiser, and runaway cap- tives, and Druses, and bold Arabs too: and the choicest of many a heretic Armenian merchants’ caravan i... ...y a Saracen village; corn and wine, fair dames, and Dam- ascus blades, and Arab steeds. Nothing has been wanting to me but thee and vengeance, and bot... ...ill and angry, and her antago- nists’ replies in Lingua Franca, mixed with Arabic, Latin, and Greek, rang through the tent, till the Prince could bear... ...married. I have ships at sea, and stuffs and jewels coming from Venice and Araby; and I am like to be Lord Mayor ere long; but there’s that I like in ...

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...even in modern times, Niebuhr found it the or- dinary costume of the lower Arabians in Hedsjas; and Shaw assures us, that from its commodious shape, i... ...that from its commodious shape, it is still a favor- ite dishabille of the Arabian women when they are behind the curtains of the tent. From this earl... ...came a universal orna- ment in Palestine. We learn, from Biblical and from Arabic authority, that it was a practice of Patriarchal descent amongst bot... ...and it naturally happened, that, with their lively fancies, some Hebrew or Arabian girl should be prompted to repeat, on her own person, what had so o... ..., this custom passed to all the nations of Asia; Medes, Persians, Lydians, Arabs, &c., and is dwelt on with peculiar delight by the elder Arabic poets... ...ebrew SANDAL may be traced in that little tablet of undrest hide which the Arabs are in the habit of tying beneath the feet of their camels. This prim... ...ter- most row of the Oriental necklace. Philo of Alexandria, and the other Arabian poets, give us some idea of the importance attached by the women of... ...f Isaiah’s time, (chap. iii. 18,) was not derived from Phoenicia, but from Arabia. At an earlier period, (Judges, viii. 21,) the camels of the Midiani... ...let is to be ex- plained out of the primitive religion, which prevailed in Arabia up to the rise of Mahometanism, in the seventh cen- tury of Christia...

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...tapu. Mr. Regler has seen the two ex- tremes of scepticism and implicit fear. In the tapu grove he found one fellow stealing breadfruit, cheerful and ... ...en the scene to any European who could have beheld them there, in the strong sun and the strong shadow of the banyan, rubbed with saffron to throw in ... ...island life, social or international; but I never heard of any banquet—the child’s presence at the daily board per- haps sufficing. We may find the ra... ...fermentation quickens and grows acid; in twelve hours it will be yeast for bread, in two days more a devilish intoxicant, the coun- sellor of crime. T... ...n their open houses; there was no sound of intercourse or business. In that hour before the shadows, the quarter of the palace and canal seemed like a... ...as the leaves were 235 Robert Louis Stevenson consumed the ashes were buried, the green spray was im- bedded in the gravel, and the ceremony was at a...

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...end. She had a vivid imagination; she had, besides, 23 Thackeray read the Arabian Nights and Guthrie’s Geography; and it is a fact that while she was... ...red the pepper which the Princess of Persia puts in the cream-tarts in the Arabian Nights. Do you put cay- enne into your cream-tarts in India, sir?” ... ...ying under a tree in the playground, spelling over a favourite copy of the Arabian Nights which he had apart from the rest of the school, who were pur... ...hree-and-twenty years’ ten- derness! is this the return to your poor, poor Arabella?” “Don’t cry too much, poor Arabella,” the other said (with ever s... ...h you might do it instead.” “Have I not tended that dear couch for years?” Arabella said, “and now—” “Now she prefers somebody else. W ell, sick peopl... ...ancies, and must be humoured. When she’s well I shall go.” “Never, never,” Arabella exclaimed, madly inhaling her salts-bottle. 129 Thackeray “Never ... ...the prettiest and tightest of riding-habits, mounted on a beautiful little Arab, which she rode to perfection (having acquired the art at Queen’s Craw... ...on, there were moments when rest was pleasant to her. As the most hardened Arab that ever careered across the desert over the hump of a dromedary like...

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...assurances that his heart was in the Highlands, and that he wanted but his Arab steed as a preliminary to the achievement of great feats of valour and... ...see through ‘em. If this is not a dream, I have woke up, by mistake, in an Arabian Night, instead of a London one. But I have no doubt I’m asleep. Not... ... and that he saw them, beyond all question, with his waking eyes. ‘It’s an Arabian Night; that’s what it is,’ said Richard. ‘I’m in Damascus or Grand ... ... for his heels!’ The Marchioness jumped up quickly and clapped her hands. ‘Arabian Night, certainly,’ thought Mr Swiveller; ‘they always clap their ha... ...ly afterward she began to laugh, and then to cry; declaring, not in choice Arabic but in familiar English, that she was ‘so glad, she didn’t know what...

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...he foreground was a group of palm-trees, and under them were rest- ing two Arabs and some camels. Philip passed his hand over the picture as if he wan... ...oked at the papers till they wearied him, then he took out Stevenson’s New Arabian Nights; but he found he could not read: the words meant nothing to ...

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...ing out of the box in his bedroom; and there the mighty talisman, the rare Arabian Nights, with Cassim Baba, divided by four, like the ghost of a drea... ...sfaction in seeing that brute of a horse (by this, he meant Mr Pecksniff’s Arab steed) getting very wet; and that he rejoiced, on his account, that it... ...uisite mouth itself, were all as natural as possible. If all the horses in Araby had run away at once, they couldn’t have improved upon it. They soon ...

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...rge bulb with long flat leaves? Do not touch it if your hands are cut; the Arabs use it as blisters for their horses. Is that the same sort? No, take ... ...nother, and soon go out to watch while turbaned, blue-breeched, barelegged Arabs dig holes for the land telegraph posts on the following principle: on... ... screw the earthenware insulators on the posts, strain the wire, and order Arabs about by the generic term of Johnny. I find W– has nothing for me to ... ...long chibouques continue to march solemnly without breaking them; a little Arab in one dirty rag pokes fun at two splendid little T urks with bril- li...

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... of the Quraysh on account of his attack on their idols. On the other hand, he could well have hoped for the Jewish support in his tirade against the Arab idolatry as the Quran co-opted the Torah and the Jewish Prophets alike. Unfortunately, the overbearing Jews made fun of Muhammad’s prophethood and poked holes in his preaching beside. This unexpected development gave r...

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... has yet to make an ecological comeback. These first cities also created the Arabian Desert. They and their farms; turned green, lush ecosystems i... ... The Effect of Civilization on Humans 460 we would not have 90% of all the arable land on earth totally destroyed and covered by concrete and asph... .... The Gobi Desert. The Namib Desert, the Sahara Desert, the Desert of Saudi Arabia, the Arizona desert, The Desert of Los Angeles, the desert of N... ... any time. The artificial States of Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, guarantee that there will never be at peace in the mid-east. ... ...ple leave their own culture’s ranks and thrive in other cultures as French, or Arabs, or Spaniards, or Jews, etc. But that small fact is ignored. T... ...lture, or race… except in lip service. Look at the geographical joke of the Arab Emirates: their boundaries… conveniently drawn around huge oil re... ... how to identify ethnic identity? As the owner of a certain oil reserve? The Arabs could not fight for land anymore because that land had already b... ...ies that actually work? Poor Nations are not allowed to have them? But rich Arab Nations do not have democracy either. And they are the richest p... ...rs? Who do you think sold their own children and bondsmen into slavery to the Arabs? Who were the Arabs? They were desert insects. Scarabs. Sca...

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... Nor liken it—I never saw the like: Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Two” 44 An Arab horse, a stately stag, a barb New broke, a cameleopard, a gazell... ... grave; Because the good old man had so much ‘nous,’ Unlike the honest Arab thieves so brave, He would have hospitably cured the stranger, A... ... when it drains the breast, A devotee when soars the Host in sight, An Arab with a stranger for a guest, A sailor when the prize has struck in... ..., Of secret treasures found in hidden vales, Of wonderful replies from Arab jokers, Of charms to make good gold and cure bad ails, Of rock... ...d fruits, and date bread loaves closed the repast, And Mocha’s berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine China cups, came in at last; Gold cups o... ...uth, Agree to a short armistice with truth. He had travell’d ‘mongst the Arabs, Turks, and Franks, And knew the self loves of the different na... ...er, the slaves gone, The dwarfs and dancing girls had all retired; The Arab lore and poet’s song were done, And every sound of revelry expir... ...heeks as pale as snowdrops blowing; These words went through his soul like Arab spears, So that he spoke not, but burst into tears. She was a go... ...sunrise on the main. These quench’d a moment her ambition’s thirst— So Arab deserts drink in summer’s rain: In vain!— As fall the dews on quen...

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... produces vast quantities of corn and forage. When this produce belongs to Arabs, we take it from them under various pretences; when it belongs to us,... ..., we take it from them under various pretences; when it belongs to us, the Arabs try to get it back again. There is a great deal of fighting over the ... ...e do in the Paris market, or the hay as it is sold in the Rue d’Enfer. The Arab chiefs, like our Spahis, prefer hard cash, and sell the plunder at a v... ...out like women, yet the cli- mate has given them the tough constitution of Arabs. The Pole, sublime in suffering, has tired his oppressors’ arms by sh... ...e to lose more men through the extortion that limits their rations than by Arab steel or the fierce heat of the climate. We await further information ... ...n’t know yer,’” said the singer. The slang words, borrowed from the Street Arab, and spo- ken by these women, may be a poem on their lips, helped by t...

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...y guests, before he dies? Why should not our furniture be as simple as the Arab’s or the Walden 33 Indian’s? When I think of the benefactors of the r... ... a singular allowance? nthat our furniture should be more complex than the Arab’s, in proportion as we are mor ally and intellectually his superiors!... ...to human muscles alone, on record, is that of certain Walden 35 wandering Arabs, who are said to have cleared twenty five feet on level ground. With... ...compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. If we respected only what is inevi table a... ... fishes, they are so foreign to the streets, even to the woods, foreign as Arabia to our Concord life. They possess a quite dazzling and transcendent ...

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...oun- tains, donkey and all, which would have been the devil. Have finished Arabian Nights and Edinburgh book, and am a free man. Next address, Poste R... ... the reviews I ever had; the one I liked best be- fore that was –’s on the Arabians. These two are the flow- ers of the collection, according to me. T... ...moon- light nights we have are incredible; love, poetry and music, and the Arabian Nights, inhabit just my corner of the world – nest there like mavis... ...EAR HENLEY, – We are all to pieces in health, and heavily handicapped with Arabs. I have a dreadful cough, whose attacks leave me aetat. 90. I never l... ... a dreadful cough, whose attacks leave me aetat. 90. I never let up on the Arabs, all the same, and rarely get less than eight pages out of hand, thou... ...e Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 all, I should be nearly through this Arabian desert; so can tackle something fresh. – Yours ever, R. L. S. Lette... ... to appear in April; 291 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 More New Arabian Nights as soon as possible. Moreover, I am neck deep in Wellington;... ...olice-Officer Cole is the only man that I see to admire. I dedicate my New Arabs to him and Cox, in default of other great public characters. – Y ours... ...ago; but it was only day before yesterday that I settled the new volume of Arabs. However, for the future, you and the sons of the deified Scribner ar...

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...nhabited by poor people, who set up their rest among its faded glories, as Arabs of the desert pitch their tents among the fallen stones of the Pyrami... ... velvets and filigree, Neapolitan coral, Roman cam- eos, Geneva jewellery, Arab lanterns, rosaries blest all round by the Pope himself, and an infinit... ...iece of carpet, bought for forty purses by one of the three princes in the Arabian Nights, and had that moment been transported on it, at a wish, into...

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...d the advantage over me that he could appar ently read, Hebrew as well as Arabic, and he had studied the Kabbalah in the original.’ ‘ And much good i... ...as they stood chest on, they appeared as huge as the strange beasts of the Arabian tales. I aimed at the lioness which stood nearest to me and fired. ... ...ich was an Eastern name. Roughly painted on sail cloth was a picture of an Arab charming snakes, and above were certain words in Arabic. At the en tr... ...y uttered a barbaric cry. With a leer and a flash of his bright teeth, the Arab thrust his hand into the sack and rum maged as a man would rummage in... ...said Haddo. ‘That is the miracle which Moses did before Pharaoh.’ Then the Arab took a reed instrument, not unlike the pipe which Pan in the hills of ... ...ar snakes are poisonous.’ Oliver turned to the charmer and spoke to him in Arabic. Then he answered Arthur. ‘The man has a horned viper, cerastes is ... ...tepped forward to the centre of the tent and fell on his knees. He uttered Arabic words, which Dr. Porhoët translated to the others. ‘O viper, I adjur... ...nce. The writhing snake dangled from his hand. He re peated a sentence in Arabic, and, with the peculiar sudden ness of a drop of water falling from... ...an whom I operated upon for cataract.’ He showed her a beautifully written Arabic work, with wonderful capitals and headlines in gold. ‘You know that ...

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...f English racehorses have come to surpass in fleetness and size the parent Arab stock, so that the latter, by the regulations for the Goodwood Races, ... ...and even the pure offspring subsequently produced from the mare by a black Arabian sire, were much more 153 Charles Darwin plainly barred across the ... ...euter, structure of Aphides attended by ants Aphis, development of Apteryx Arab horses Aralo-Caspian Sea Archiac, M. de, on the succession of species ... ...uagga, striped Quince, grafts of Rabbit, disposition of young Race-horses, Arab; English Races, domestic, characters of Ramond on plants of Pyrenees R...

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...n, and for two long years Sixte du Chatelet led a wandering life among the Arab tribes of the desert, who sold and resold their captive—his talents be...

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... Thrilling Incidents! Sagacious Elephant! Dance of Arab Coursers!! Acrobatic Feats!! &c., &c. “Oh, daddy! daddy! do t...

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...on their smooth surface the initials of the newly wedded pair in nonpareil arabesques. A confectioner of Yvetot had been intrusted with the tarts and ... ...ircle gathered round a very young man who the week before had beaten “Miss Arabella” and “Romolus,” and won two thousand louis jumping a ditch in Engl... ...m the box, droning through a curtain of pink taffeta under a brass claw in arabesque. They were airs played in other places at the theatres, sung in d... ...h distinct physiognomies—all on the left is pasture land, all of the right arable. The meadow stretches under a bulge of low hills to join at the back... ...“Vichy , Seltzer, Barege waters, blood purifiers, Raspail patent medicine, Arabian racahout, Darcet lozenges, Regnault paste, trusses, baths, hygienic... ...I dare say! Quiet Vincart! You don’t know him; he’s more ferocious than an Arab!” Still Monsieur Lheureux must interfere. “Well, listen. It seems to m...

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...se an either/or judgement, for example we ask is there a tree or not; is he an Arab or not ? This is the 'label' style most common to our descriptiv...

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...ng conditions; it is even possible for us to glance at the helplessness of Arabia, Palestine, and Mesopotamia, as yet incapable of self-government, he... ...ole negro population of Africa is now rotten with diseases intro- duced by Arabs and Europeans during the last century, and such African statesmen as ... ...e the safety of such liberated popu- lations as those of Palestine, of the Arab regions of the old T urkish empire, of Armenia, of reunited Poland, an...

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...n there might be a reward. It was an old Mohammedan, with a strong dash of Arab—a smallboned, bald-headed chap, and I was just wondering how it had ke... ...d him properly. Just to show you how demoralized the brute must have been (Arabs often go dotty after a defeat), he’d snapped up four or five utterly ... ...ter of the pack fleeing up the gang-plank, and the tramp of the Governor’s Arab behind them. They would pass over the brow into the dewless crops wher...

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... has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious organisations of the Muhammedan world which are one of the great forces with which Europe and the East have to reckon to-day....

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...THE KORAN Translated from the Arabic by the Rev. J.M. Rodwell, M.A. with an Introduction by the Rev. G. M... ...n equal opportunity university. 3 The Koran The Koran Translated from the Arabic by the Rev. J.M. Rodwell, M.A. with an Introduction by the Rev. G. M... ...r r reface eface eface eface eface Sura Number (this edition) Sura Number (Arabic text) Title 1 96 Thick Blood or ... ...acter. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of he- roes, and then proceeded to create t... ...tions addressed to turbulent and largely hostile as- semblies of untutored Arabs. As a book it was published af- ter the prophet’s death. In Muhammed’... ...comparison is made between the ethics of the Koran and the moral tenets of Arabian and other forms of heathenism which it supplanted. The method follo... ...istian and Jewish traditions of the time; and it is, besides some original Arabian legends, to those only that the book stands in any close relationsh... ...as, roughly speaking, all derived from Latin treatises ultimately based on Arabic originals; and it was the Koran which, though indirectly, gave the f... ...hich, though indirectly, gave the first impetus to these studies among the Arabs and their allies. Linguistic investigations, poetry, and other branch...

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...icacy will be lost. In its acuter stages every religion must be a homeless Arab of the desert. The church knows this well enough, with its everlasting... ...l fours for some distance back, and then ran for life with the speed of an Arab horse for about half an hour, and fortunately happened to come to a sm... ...their pantheism is so at variance with the hot and rigid monotheism of the Arab mind, it has been suggested that Sufism must have been inoculated into... ... of mys- [247] A. Schmolders: Essai sur les ecoles philosophiques chez les Arabes, Paris, 1842, pp. 54- 68, abridged. 394 The V arieties of Religious...

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...so excited). Bravo, Switzerland! Ma- jor: I bet my best charger against an Arab mare for Raina that Nicola finds the coat in the blue closet. PETKOFF ... ...est char— CATHERINE (hastily interrupting him). Don’t be foolish, Paul. An Arabian mare will cost you 50,000 levas. 51 Shaw RAINA (suddenly coming ou... ... are going to take the jewellery , I don’t see why you should grudge me my Arab. (Nicola comer back with the coat and brings it to Petkoff, who... ...er: I didn’t take that bet of yours, Sergius. You’d better give Raina that Arab steed yourself, since you’ve roused her expectations. Eh, Raina? (He l...

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...ts, not it, Are but a narrow pound.’ Said Solomon to Sheba, And kissed her Arab eyes, ‘There’s not a man or woman Born under the skies Dare match in l... ...h different things at school. SOLOMON AND THE WITCH AND thus declared that Arab lady: ‘Last night, where under the wild moon 176 THE COLLECTED POEMS ... ...ntasy decrees We shift about — all that great glory spent — Like some poor Arab tribesman and his tent. We were the last romantics — chose for theme T... ...feat; but I Who have accepted the Byzantine faith, That seems unnatural to Arabian minds, Think when I choose a bride I choose for ever; And if her ey... ...tative dream, Even those truths that when my bones are dust Must drive the Arabian host. The voice grew still, And she lay down upon her bed and slept... ...uty is a storm tossed banner; Under it wisdom stands, and I alone — Of all Arabia’s lovers I alone — Nor dazzled by the embroidery, nor lost In the co...

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...isov, showing his white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred Arab, which twitched its ears as the bayo- nets touched it, and snorted, sp... ...lue cloak which he had worn on his Italian campaign, sat on his small gray Arab horse a little in front of his marshals. He gazed silently at the hill... ...drew ribbon over his shoulder. He was riding a very fine thoroughbred gray Arab horse with a crimson gold-embroidered saddlecloth. On approaching Alex... ...d and pulled at his horse. Natasha sat easily and confidently on her black Arabchik and reined him in without effort with a firm hand. “Uncle” looked ... ...anding on the hill. On the thirteenth of June a rather small, thoroughbred Arab horse was brought to Napoleon. He mounted it and rode at a gallop to o...

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...d, patient, disciplined, and lethal.The enemy rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its... ...red years earlier, most notably in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax ... ...sician,Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquar- ters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in th... ... Bin Ladin. Further, there is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English.We have relied on a mix of common sense... ...lf-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.The long, disjointed document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allow... ... 9:12 AM Page 48 inveighed against the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam’s holiest sites. He spoke of the suffering of the... ... Ummah—thus was a Sunni institution that continued until 1924, first under Arab and eventually under Ottoman Turkish control. Many Muslims look back a... ...to the Prophet Mohammed as a golden age. Its memory is strongest among the Arabs.What happened then—the spread of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula thr... ...din offers an extreme view of Islamic history designed to appeal mainly to Arabs and Sunnis. He draws on fundamentalists who blame the eventual destru...

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...th respectability. A street-dog was once adopted by a lady. While still an Arab, he had done as Arabs 90 Robert Louis Stevenson do, gambolling in the... ...pare with these, and that was on the night when I brought back with me the Arabian Entertainments in the fat, old, double- columned volume with the pr... ...lity of incident? often, if you will, impossible; often of the order of an Arabian story; and yet all based in human nature. For if you come to that, ... ...re, that captivates in childhood, and still de- lights in age – I mean the Arabian Nights – where you shall look in vain for moral or for intellectual... ...d is found enough. Dumas approaches perhaps nearest of any modern to these Arabian authors in the purely material charm of some of his romances. The e...

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...ssion. He is now upon a larger venture, promising us at last that complete Arabian Nights to which we have all so long looked forward. CHARLES OF ORLE... ...y poet, with a smack of the Paris student, and a smack of the Paris street arab, posting along the highways, in rain or sun, among the green fields an... ...ho should happen to be a man of genius; his levity that of a bitter street arab, full of bread. On a first reading, the pathetic passages preoccupy th...