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...h THE CURSE OF KALI 47 century. It, too, is a handsome building, more European than Indian in architecture.’ John MacGregor pointed with his rid... ...ure Moghul palace. Helen was surprised at the incongruity of such a building amidst the European architecture of the Residency until Isabel explaine... ...ning Revenue Collector Word Doonga Meaning a pleasure boat in Kashmir Word Effendi Meaning Arabic for a man of high social standing. Word E...

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...o satisfying, like dining on fine Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 191 Arabic cuisine. Perhaps succulent and tahina-laced Baba Ghanoush followed u... ...et. Agog and head tilted back, he slowly turned and admired the decorative architecture of the main hall's ribbed dome—a precise replica of the arch i...

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...ols have cut a brick out of the wall, and said, Look at this, and believe in the divine architecture of the palace from which it came: they have tak... ...aphrase. From the sight of the face of the Lord of all the earth, says the very ancient Arabic version. Besides, it is confessedly a figurative expre...

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...kanlarda İslam Hukukunun Tarihi (Bosna-Hersek Örneği) History of Islamic Law in the Balkans (Bosnia-Herzegovina Example) Abdullah Kahraman 119 The Architecture of Mosques in Albania During the 15Th to 19Th Centuries Arnavutluk’taki Cami Mimarisi Aleksandër Meksi 157 Bosnian Cultural Communication with the Muslim East during the 20th Century: A Brief Survey 20. Yüzy...

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...cepts); b) material ideas (embodied in art canvas, sculptures, architectures, machines, tools). Creativity and inventiveness belong to us... ...utrality. 61 Politics is dictated by mean interests (Machiavelli). The Arabic philosopher Ibn-Haldun defines history as a repetition in a regular ... ... New Types of Philosophies: a) Object Philosophy: a building through its architecture, a flower, a bird flying, etc. any object are all ideas, or i...

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...t, as well as enrichments in the fields of literature, writing, the arts, architecture, liturgical, and scriptural studies. The bartering system was ... ...reatest invention,‖ then its runner-up must be the numeral system we call Arabic with the once-missing invisible number. Just as the alphabet‘s ad... ...habet‘s advantages tower over pictorial writing‘s shortcomings, so too do Arabic numerals prove infinitely easier to manipulate than Roman numerals. ... ...en in common use from Libya to Morocco. That‘s probably why we call them ―Arabic numerals.‖ Arabs themselves, however, connect them to their origin ... ...m to their origin and call the system ―Hindu numerals.‖ At first, the Arabic numbering system encountered considerable skepticism in Europe. It ... ... a book written by Leonardo of Pisa—Liber Abaci—explained how much easier Arabic numbers could handle complex calculations, as opposed to Roman numer...

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...t, as well as enrichments in the fields of literature, writing, the arts, architecture, liturgical, and scriptural studies. The bartering system was ... ...reatest invention,‖ then its runner-up must be the numeral system we call Arabic with the once-missing invisible number. Just as the alphabet‘s adva... ...habet‘s advantages tower over pictorial writing‘s shortcomings, so too do Arabic numerals prove infinitely easier to manipulate than Roman numerals. ... ...en in common use from Libya to Morocco. That‘s probably why we call them ―Arabic numerals.‖ Arabs themselves, however, connect them to their origin ... ...hem to their origin and call the system ―Hindu numerals.‖ At first, the Arabic numbering system encountered considerable skepticism in Europe. It ... ... a book written by Leonardo of Pisa—Liber Abaci—explained how much easier Arabic numbers could handle complex calculations, as opposed to Roman numer...

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..., religion, literature, music, the visual arts of painting, sculpture and architecture and, of course, war. I want to leave the cruelty of war in the... ... the world‘s language of diplomacy, has only a hundred thousand words and Arabic only 45,000. So you can see how English has much more potential to ... ...as an elective language, just as they can take French, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic or Hindi. Several countries have copied our approach to Simplish. ... ...on; to and two; for, four and fore; and ate and eight. By using only the Arabic number rather than the written number we eliminate some homophones....

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...rier] - paradoxisme [in Dutch, introduced by Henri Thijs] - paradoxisme [in Arabic, introduced by Nadia Idri] - paradoxismus [in German, introduced... ... sont décrits au tout début du livre comme une vision propre à l’auteur, une architecture des sentiments. Ces graphiques, par leur simplicité exprim...

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...ically. If, as a Muslim, I accept the belief in the same God, which in the Arabic language is Allah, and the sanctity of the first born son of Abraha... ...sins. But Wanda, on the plus side of your tally, we have the monuments to architecture, sculpture and music, some orphanages and hospitals, and some... ...he highest of human potentials which have produced the pinnacles of human architecture. Look at the celestial achievements of the chisel and pallet—... ... worship Allah they are worshiping a different God. But Allah is just the Arabic word for the same monotheistic God that the Jews and Christians wor... ...r the same monotheistic God that the Jews and Christians worship. In fact Arabic speaking Jews and Christians use the word Allah, just as English sp...

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...e. This will be facilitated by the opening up of the TCP/IP communication architecture and its availability to PCs. A billion USD will go just to fi... ... Otherwise they have to be adapted and fitted with special fonts (Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Russian and Chinese - each present a different set of pr... ...ly to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the Elders (a term of veneration) ove...

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... westward side of this table-land was located the city of Tlatlanquitepec, the architecture of which was vastly more imposing than that of any place t... ...refinement fully equal, if not superior, to that found anywhere in Europe. The architecture would rival that of the Moors, who introduced into Spain a... ...ay at the west end of Java. A negro who accompanied Cavendish, and could speak Arabic, was found to be able to converse with some natives who were see... ...y log cabins, but the further one goes to the south the better is the style of architecture, and not very many miles from the mouth of the Yenesei the...

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...azies are always religious--no offense." Gabriele heard Osama's palaver in Arabic." "Osama wants to know if you play volleyball with us." said Khali... ...ere somewhat agreeable because of their adjacent bullfight arena and Spanish architecture. The unbearable dust colonias (poor suburbs) with the maquil...

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...ccumulation in the present makeup of human culture. This can be seen today in architecture: where modern buildings are still built with facades and ... ...is towards increasing duplication and identicality. Look at the evolution of architecture, look at the evolution of cars, look at how people are dr... ...ure: bringing their petty haggling and cunning and lying ways with them. The Arabic obsession with money and their custom and tradition of cheating... ...ion of cheating their customers is well-known. The culture of Arab greed and Arabic culture and Arab dishonesty is even filthier than their own cult... ...dually anymore, they have to be represented by abstractions, abstract numbers, Arabic numerals; to count the grains of sand in the desert known as Ar... ...plitness Chapter Seven: Entities and the Alternative The entire ancient architecture of temples and large decorated buildings: screaming out th...

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...machus Cathedral except Arthur. The time was not come for heed- ing church architecture or primitive history; and he only wandered about the narrow cr... ... rates only held the two youths tightly, vituperating them no doubt in bad Arabic,—Lanty grinding his teeth with rage, though scarcely feeling the pai... ...ch remained masters of the situation. She heard Lanty haranguing in broken Arabic and lingua Franca, and presently he came in, shaking with suppressed... ...ginable— perhaps more correctly lingua Franca, with a French instead of an Arabic foundation, but it was more comprehensible than that of the Moorish ... ...e who had come hobbling after coaxed in vain. He cried out in a mixture of Arabic and French that he would sleep with Arthur—Arthur must put him to be... ... laddie, I ha tell’t the sheyk;’ and he repeated the same to the slaves in Arabic, dismissing them to hold a parting feast on a lamb stuffed with pist... ...ab dress. The Paris-like block of houses ill replaces the graceful Moorish architecture, undisturbed when the Calypso sailed into the harbour, and the... ...lasped his hand as his protector. The human figures were as strange as the architecture; the glittering of Janissaries in the outer court, which seeme...

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...ays a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters; I can attach no ideas to them. Ideas! my good sir? There... ...gues is not remarkably extensive, being indeed con- fined to two words—the Arabic word for barley and the Turkish for opium (madjoon), which I have le... ...hall. With the same power of endless growth and self-repro- duction did my architecture proceed in dreams. In the early stage of my malady the splendo... ...Homer is I think rightly reputed to have known the virtues of opium. To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery expanses of water: these... ...h any house in this mountainous dis- trict which is wholly waterproof. The architecture of books, I flatter myself, is conducted on just principles in... ...self, is conducted on just principles in this coun- try; but for any other architecture, it is in a barbarous state, and what is worse, in a retrograd...

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...ce in the roads and rail- ways and shipping it will be for the worse; that architecture, domestic equipment, and so on, will be fortunate if in 1924 t... ...een times—the European settlement of America and Siberia, for example, the Arabic sweep across North Africa, the invasion of Britain by the Low German... ...h the French and the British have the strongest interest in the revival of Arabic culture. Let the German learn T urkish if it pleases him. Through al... ...stroke of the pick at the open- ing of the mine. English, French, Russian, Arabic, Hindustani, Spanish, Italian; these are the great world languages t... ...e Americans, Russian or Spanish, for the French and Belgians and Italians, Arabic. These are the directions in which the duty of under- standing is mo... ... with that. And when I foreshadow this necessary liaison of the French and Arabic cultures, I am thinking not only of the Arab that is, but of the Ara...

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...her before, enormous wheels. The churches I saw were of the florid periwig architecture— I mean of that pompous cauliflower kind of ornament which was... ...solute; and I have always fancied that the bloated artificial forms of the architecture partake of the social disorganisation of the 13 Thackeray tim... ...man Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan architecture, and a Court-house with a portico which is said to be an imita... ...s place is very wide and picturesque:there is a pretty church of Byzantine architecture at the further end; and in the midst of the court a magnificen... ...Gibraltar and Malta, nothing can be less romantic than the modern military architecture; which sternly regards the fight- ing, without in the least he... ... who had just been making a tour in Syria, and who professed to speak both Arabic and Turkish quite fluently—which I thought he might have learned whe... ...se up from the divan, shouting, screaming, ejaculating, expectorating (the Arabic spoken language seems to require a great employment of the two latte...

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...mrah, which is not found in Century Dictionary, is itself really plural of Arabic amir (ameer), a commander, noble- man. 15 23 THE 6TH OF EDWARD LONGS... ...ng the word Ionic, De Quincey doubtless has in mind the character of Ionic architecture, with its tall and graceful column, differ- ing from the sever... ...he following version of the old story of the origin of the styles of Greek architecture in Vitruvius, IV , Chap. I (Gwilt’s translation), quoted by H... ...um, Oct. 6, 1888, quoted by Hart, the word is explained as a corruption of Arabic burghul. 101 30 ENGLISH PRINCE, REGENT OF FRANCE: John, Duke of Bedf...

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...would feel interrupted by the overflowing notes on painting, sculpture and architecture which fill the corre- spondence, yet without them, it is scarc... ...ve all impressive in the ex- traordinary loveliness of the early decorated architecture, and the space and loftiness of the choir. The whole, pre-emin... ...tical errors, that these studies were almost relinquished, and gave way to Arabic and Hebrew. Before we left Dresden, Patteson had read large portions... ...o surprise his sisters on his return to England by playing chants, but the Arabic and He- brew studies proved too absorbing; he grudged the time, and ... ...ure I shall make it useful; and so I tell you without fear I am working at Arabic. I hope you won’t think it silly. It is very hard, and for ten days ... ...dy who writes Hebrew grammars and lexicons necessarily has much to do with Arabic; and a knowl- edge of it may be of great use in clearing up difficul... ...in all these long apologies and strenu- ous desire for secrecy about these Arabic studies that reminds one that the character was a self-conscious int... ...ake fresh holidays on the Continent and enjoy those de- lights of scenery, architecture, art and music, which he loved with an appreciation and enthus... ...nces of devotion fell heavily and coldly on one trained to beauty, both of architecture and music, though perhaps the variety of employment was the ch...

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...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... ...s, Lydians, Arabs, &c., and is dwelt on with peculiar delight by the elder Arabic poets. That it had spread to the westernmost parts of Africa, early ... ...of mere natural beauty in its gorgeous prime, with the images of elaborate architecture and of human workmanship; as a place of per- fect innocence in... ...dly arise but upon some foundation,) that Charlemagne had cul- tivated the Arabic so far as to talk it; 6 having no motive to that attainment more ur... ...o have accredited his narrative by those indications of research. NOTE 6. ‘Arabice loquutum esse Aigolando Saracenorum regulo, T urpinus (the famous A...

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... front of the municipal buildings. CHAPTER XII What the Wives Saved THE RATHHAUS, OR MUNICIPAL BUILDING, is of the quaintest and most picturesque Midd... ...from a great distance down the bends of the river, and with just exactly room on the top of its head for its steepled and turreted and roof-clustered ... ...from a crevice in his upper teeth, laid him low, and said with composure: “Whar’s the boss?” “I am the boss,” said the editor, following this curious ... ....” “Don’t you do it! No Americans there! You stop at one of those big hotels over the bridge—they’re packed full of Ameri- cans.” “But I want to pract... ... to practice my Arabic.” “Good gracious, do you speak Arabic?” “Yes—well enough to get along.” “Why, hang it, you won’t get along in Geneva—they don’t... ...ose to them. This pile of stone is peculiar. From its base to the soaring tops of its mighty towers, all its lines and all its details vaguely suggest... ... work as this must necessarily be imperfect, yet they are of value. The top of the Trunk is arched; the arch is a perfect half-circle, in the Roman st...

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...more sumptuous of these apart- ments, give interest and variety to Utopian architecture. There are sometimes little cooking corners in these flats—as ... ... rather admires that inconvenient and gawky muddle of ironwork and Flemish architecture, the London T ower Bridge. When before this, temerarious antic... ...ery London twilight mysteriously beau- tiful. We shall go along avenues of architecture that will be emancipated from the last memories of the squat t... ...great facade of the University buildings. But I am in no mood to criticise architecture. Why should a modern Utopia insist upon slipping out of the ha... ...qually spacious and equally regardless of tongues and peoples is the great Arabic- speaking religion of Mahomet. Both Christendom and Is- lam are inde...

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...esque outlines against the sky; and betrayed no fear of the dangers of the Arabic Gulf, which the old histori- ans always spoke of with horror, and up... ...d marvellous temples enriched by the ex- haustless ornamentation of Indian architecture. Then they came upon vast tracts extending to the horizon, wit... ...epartout beheld beautiful fir and cedar groves, sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the midst of bamboos and reeds, temples s...

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... oppressive thirst than I have this day experienced.” “It is called in the Arabic language,” answered the Saracen, “by a name which signifies the Diam... ...as it were, with appropriate ornaments, were all in the finest tone of the architecture of the age. Corresponding to the line of pillars, there were o... ...swered by the ap- pearance of two black slaves. He gave them his orders in Arabic, received the answer that “to hear was to obey ,” when, taking the a... ...r of cloth of gold, within which was a letter from Saladin in the original Arabic, with a trans- lation into Norman-English, which may be modernized t... ...e Soldan!” She hastily ran over the contents, which were expressed both in Arabic and French, and when she had done, she laughed in bitter anger. “Now...

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...spoken on the shores of that large lake called the Mediterranean, from the Arabic to the Provencal, and this, while it spared him inter- preters, pers... ... before the sun, we are here to ease your fall.” He then said something in Arabic to Ali, who made a sign of obedience and withdrew, but not to any di... ...” They found the carriage where they had left it. The count said a word in Arabic to Ali, and the horses went on at great speed. It was just two o’clo... ...Between the court and the garden, built in the heavy style of the imperial architecture, was the large and fashionable dwelling of the Count and Count... ... down his head. “It is not your fault, my good Ali,” said the count in the Arabic language, and with a gentleness none would have thought him capable ... ...ment. “You seen incredulous,” said Monte Cristo who repeated to Ali in the Arabic language what he had just been saying to Baptistin in French. The Nu...

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...into chapters on the model of “Amadis,” invented the fable of a mysterious Arabic manuscript, and set up Cide Hamete Benengeli in imitation of the alm... ... boy had for sale, and saw that it was in characters which I recognised as Arabic, 82 Don Quixote and as I was unable to read them though I could rec... ...as if to ask him what they meant and what she was to do. He said to her in Arabic that they asked her to take off her veil, and thereupon she removed ... ...d the knot and I found forty Span- ish gold crowns with a paper written in Arabic, and at the end of the writing there was a large cross drawn. I kiss... ...gh filled with joy at what had taken place; and as none of us under- stood Arabic, great was our curiosity to know what the paper con- tained, and sti... ... skilful construction and ingenu- ity of the vast fabric and its wonderful architecture, and when they had left the skylight he said to the emperor, ‘...

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...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... ...ised gateway, were in the most elaborate and ma- jestic style of defensive architecture; and the main building rose to a great height, filled with gal...

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...ts of human existence, whether public or private, are so closely allied to architecture that the majority of observ- ers can reconstruct nations and i... ...stible vocation. ‘ And I see you recog- nize as I do,’ he added, ‘that gum arabic, sugar, and starch, reduced to powder, each yield a substance absolu...

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...resembling shark’s teeth, which appears so often in the more ancient Saxon architecture. A belfry rose above the porch on four small pillars, within w... ...higher degree of ornament, which the Normans had al- ready introduced into architecture. Cedric paced the apartment, filled with indignant reflec- tio... ...at I can- not expound unto you this jargon, which, whether it be French or Arabic, is beyond my guess.” He then gave the letter to Gurth, who shook hi... ...rt of theory on the subject, which, from some recent acquaintance with the architecture of the ancient Scandinavians, seemed to me peculiarly interest... ...e are many others, all of them built after a peculiar 462 Ivanhoe mode of architecture, which argues a people in the most primi- tive state of societ... ...se- cure any sheep or cattle which they might possess. Such is the general architecture of that very early period when the Northmen swept the seas, an...

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...genas.” “Thou must have mistaken the surname of this ‘Cide’—which means in Arabic ‘Lord’—Sancho,” observed Don Quixote. “Very likely,” replied Sancho,... ...n that connoisseur who took the trouble of having it translated out of the Arabic into our Castilian vulgar tongue for the universal entertainment of ... ... skilful construction and ingenu- ity of the vast fabric and its wonderful architecture, and when they had left the skylight he said to the emperor, ‘... ...h are borcegui, zaquizami, and maravedi. Alheli and alfaqui are seen to be Arabic, as well by the al at the beginning as by the they end with. I menti...

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...ter. Wrangerton is a most forlorn place, an old den of the worst period of architecture, set down just beyond the pretty country, but in the programme... ...to silence, and perhaps his meditations were as much perplexed by the nine Arabic figures as those of Violet’s convalescence had once been, only where...

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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 ... ...as, roughly speaking, all derived from Latin treatises ultimately based on Arabic originals; and it was the Koran which, though indirectly, gave the f... ...table cases been adopted, helps to bring out much of the wild charm of the Arabic. Not the least among its recommendations is, perhaps, that it is sch... ...es, owed much of her knowledge of dialectic phi- losophy, of medicine, and architecture, to Arabian writers, and that Muslims formed the connecting li...

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...; the observations of the Arabs and Indians; the ceremonies of the Jews; the architecture of the Babylonians; the agriculture of Noah the magic arts o... ... or Gentile, cannot be understood. And we must come to a like judgment as to Arabic in numerous astronomical treatises, and as to Hebrew as regards th... ...rol our natural composition, so that some men choose to devote themselves to architecture, others to agriculture, others to hunting, others to naviga ...

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...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... ...ted in Afghanistan.A week later, it appeared in Al Quds al Arabi, the same Arabic-language newspaper in London that had first published Bin Ladin’s Fe... ... counter- terrorism agents. It lacked sufficient translators proficient in Arabic and other key languages, resulting in a significant backlog of untra... ...d language, pretending to be students discussing various fields of study: “architecture” referred to the World Trade Center,“arts” the Pentagon,“law” ... ...rson might be the appropriate official. 15. For the information technology architecture, see Ruth David interview (June 10, 2003). For the necessity o...

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...onautical interests go, or as an ecclesiasti- cal architect, so far as his architecture goes. The ideal environment should, without any doubt at all, ... ... a child to grasp a number at a glance. The child should not be taught the Arabic numerals until it has counted for a year or more. Experience speaks ... ... It should, for the reason given in the footnote, be still ignorant of the Arabic numerals. It should be able to handle a pencil and amuse itself with... ...d—if not to its nurse. know one case only too well of a man who learnt his Arabic numerals prematurely, before he had acquired any sound experimental ... ...e middle ages, and such it is to-day to the Roman Catholic priest; such is Arabic to the Malay, written Chinese to the Cantonese or the Corean, and En... ... too many schools it is still a thing of tomorrow. The arithmetic (without Arabic numer- als, be it remembered) and the geometry of the mediaeval quad... ...hat may very well be disre- garded here. We are concerned with the general architecture now, and not with the tactical necessities of the clerk of the...

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... then “hoo!” when the queen, understanding these words (which are no doubt Arabic) to signify that he was all attention, and would do his best not to ... ...site her cham- ber window—what, then, could there be in its shadows—in its architecture—in its ivy-wreathed and solemn cornices— that the Marchesa di ... ... he had not retired to bed during the whole of the preceding night. In the architecture and embellishments of the chamber, the evident design had been... ...t my apartment—at my statues—my pictures—my origi- nality of conception in architecture and upholstery! absolutely drunk, eh, with my magnificence? Bu... ...e, which bears some relation to the domestic Gothic or English Elizabethan architecture. Whatever may be said against the abuses of the artificial lan... ...pringing con- fusedly from amid all, a mass of semi-Gothic, semi-Saracenic architecture sustaining itself by miracle in mid-air, glittering in the red...

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...be distinguished from the other. Owing to the vast antiquity, the style of architecture is some- what odd, but it is not for that reason the less stri... ... the Chinese. With the aid of this you may either get along without either Arabic, or Sanscrit, or Chickasaw. There is no passing muster, however, wit... ... city, I had leisure to survey the church in which I was, and the delicate architecture of the steeple. I observed that the aperture through which I h... ... which bears some relation to the do- mestic Gothic or English Elizabethan architecture. Whatever may be said against the abuses of the artificial lan...

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... had been dug yesterday.” In the Holy Land he gags desperately at the hard Arabic and Hebrew Biblical names, and finally concludes to call them Baldwi... ...hall go in there for to look the interior. Admire this master piece gothic architecture’s. The chasing of all they figures is astonishing’ indeed. The... ... itself apart like a derrick; so I think it is a reptile, though it may be architecture. I was afraid of it at first, and started to run every time it...

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... of the abbey; and of this by letters patent passed a very good grant. The architecture was in a figure hexagonal, and in such a fashion that in every... ..., without which a man may be ashamed to account himself a scholar, Hebrew, Arabic, Chaldaean, and Latin. Printing likewise is now in use, so elegant a... ...d then the Hebrew, for the Holy Scrip- ture sake; and then the Chaldee and Arabic likewise, and that thou frame thy style in Greek in imitation of Pla... ...should the walls be built, rang- ing them in good symmetry by the rules of architecture, and placing the largest in the first ranks, then sloping down... ...Life. It is all with live stones that I set up and erect the fabrics of my architecture, to wit, men. It was, according to my opinion, quoth Pantagrue... ...hem in hi- eroglyphic characters; others in the Ionic dialect; some in the Arabic, Agarenian, Slavonian, and other tongues; of which Epistemon took an... ...d cages. The cages were spacious, costly, magnificent, and of an admirable architecture. The birds were large, fine, and neat accordingly, looking as ...

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...ff, the missionary, distributed copies of Robinson Crusoe, translated into Arabic, among the Arabs, and they made a great sensation. “Robinson Crusoe’... ...wonderfully with their astronomy, and matching in grandeur and harmony the architecture of the heavens them selves, seems to point to a time when a m... ...y to that which Dante rendered to Italy. If Greek sufficeth for Greek, and Arabic for Arabian, and Hebrew for Jew, and Latin for Latin, then English s...

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...ford strong confirmation of Peters’ idea. The upper range is evidently the Arabic verbal root {image}. “T o be white,” whence all the inflections of b... ... Lady Rowena Trevanion, of Tremaine. There is no individual portion of the architecture and deco- ration of that bridal chamber which is not now visib...

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...people’s names, some with a Greek or Latin word, or one of the curious old Arabic signs, for which her father had always a turn, having, as his mother... ...with steep streets dividing the rows. These were of very mixed quality and architecture, but, as a general rule, improved the higher they rose, and we... ...ill-top, one of which, being constructed on supposed Chinese principles of architecture, was known to its friends as “the Pagoda,” to its foes as “the... ...te repair, and two rooms, showing a sublime indifference to consistency of architecture, had been lately built out with sash windows and a slated roof...