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" As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing. "
Uncle Oliver's Travels: Persia - Page 98
by John Kitto - 1835
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Oriental Customs: Or, an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by ..., Volume 1

Samuel Burder - Bible - 1804 - 444 pages
...appearance of water. It occurs in the Koran (cap. xxiv.) " But as to the unbelievers, their \vo)'ks are like a vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller...thinketh to be water, until, when he cometh thereto, he findeth.it to be nothing." Mr. Sale's note on this place is, the Arabic word serab signifies that false...
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Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures by ..., Volume 1

Samuel Burder - Bible - 1807 - 438 pages
...the hot countries at a distance has the appearance of water. It occurs in the Korun (cap. xxiv.) " But as to the unbelievers, their works are like a...when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing." Mr. Sale's note on this place is, the Arabic word serab signifies that false appearance, which in the...
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Oriental Customs: Or an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, Volume 1

Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pages
...the hot countries at a distance has the appearance of water. It occurs in the Koran (cap. xxiv.) " But as to the unbelievers, their works are like a...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing." Mr. Sale's note on this place is, the Arabic word serab signifies that false appearance, which in the...
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Oriental customs: or, An illustration of the Sacred scriptures by ..., Volume 1

Samuel Burder - Bible - 1812 - 442 pages
...the hot countries at a distance has the appearance of water. It occurs in the Koran (cap. xxiv.) " But as to the unbelievers, their works are like a...when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing." Mr. Sale's note on this place is, the Arabic word serab signifies that false appearance, which in the...
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Isaiah a New Translation: With a Preliminary Dissertation and Notes ...

Robert Lowth - Bible - 1815 - 436 pages
...the hot countries at a distance has the appearance of water. It occurs in the Koran, chap. xxiv. " But as to the unbelievers, their works are like a...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing." Mr. Sale's note on this place is : " The Arabic word serai signifies that false appearance, which in...
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Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance

Thomas Moore - Bactria - 1817 - 416 pages
...it, with as much accuracy as though it had been the face of a clear and still lake." — Pottinger. " As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour...when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing." — Koran, chap. 24. Page 223. AJlower, that the Bidmusk has just passed over. " A wind which prevails...
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The Koran: Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed, Volume 2

1821 - 560 pages
...pleaseth without measure. But as to the unbelievers, their works are like the vapour in a plain p, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water,...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing ; but he findeth GOD with himq, and he will fully pay him his account; and GOD is swift in taking an...
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Isaiah. A new translation; with a preliminary dissertation, and ..., Volume 2

Isaiah (the prophet) - 1822 - 464 pages
...the hot countries at a distance has the appearance of water. It occurs in the Koran, chap. xxiv. " But as to the unbelievers, their works are like a...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing." Mr. Sale's note on this place is ; "The Arabic word serab signifies that false appearance, which in...
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Antiquities of the Jews ... Compiled from Authentic Sources: And ..., Volume 2

William Brown - Jews - 1823 - 532 pages
...his Note on Isaiah xxxv. 7, tells us that it occurs in the Koran, ch. xxiv. in the following words; " But as to the unbelievers, their works are like a...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing." Mr. Sale's note on the quotation is, that (e the Arabic word serab signifies that false appearance...
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The Works of Thomas Moore: Lalla Rookh

Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...with as much accuracy as though it had been the face of a clear and still lake. " — POTTINGER. " As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour...when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing. " — Koran, chap. 24PAGE 225. A flower that the Bidmusk has just passed over. " A wind which prevails...
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