The Lebanon: (Mount Souria) : a History and a Diary, Volume 2T. C. Newby, 1860 - Ethnology |
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... • 369 CHAPTER XX . An Emir Beshir . 391 CHAPTER XXI . Agony of Ten Years CHAPTER XXII . Christianity of the Lebanon Public Meeting . CATASTROPHE . . 403 · 433 CHAPTER XXIII . . 437 445 DIARY IN THE LEBANON . CHAPTER I. MARONITE CONVENTS .
... • 369 CHAPTER XX . An Emir Beshir . 391 CHAPTER XXI . Agony of Ten Years CHAPTER XXII . Christianity of the Lebanon Public Meeting . CATASTROPHE . . 403 · 433 CHAPTER XXIII . . 437 445 DIARY IN THE LEBANON . CHAPTER I. MARONITE CONVENTS .
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... Christian Arabs apply to those who shew the way to ours ; and what I had taken for an accomplished lady , turned out to be a blooming Prebendary . Dec. 20th . - As it was little out of my road , I de- termined to take the village of ...
... Christian Arabs apply to those who shew the way to ours ; and what I had taken for an accomplished lady , turned out to be a blooming Prebendary . Dec. 20th . - As it was little out of my road , I de- termined to take the village of ...
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... Christian rayas . I soon found that they differed not from the Mus- sulmans . I put the case to them in all its gra- vity ; two great powers threatening Turkey with war if she did not surrender some fugitives and outlaws , and asked ...
... Christian rayas . I soon found that they differed not from the Mus- sulmans . I put the case to them in all its gra- vity ; two great powers threatening Turkey with war if she did not surrender some fugitives and outlaws , and asked ...
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... Christians ! there was Emir Hydar , and Emir Halil , and Emir Mach- moud , and they were Christians . There was an old man , with long white beard and turban , 30 DIARY IN THE LEBANON .
... Christians ! there was Emir Hydar , and Emir Halil , and Emir Mach- moud , and they were Christians . There was an old man , with long white beard and turban , 30 DIARY IN THE LEBANON .
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... Christians in possession of every form , ceremony , circumstance and device , which to our eyes stamps the Mussul- And the Mussulmans are abandoning these things to become like unto Christians ! while again the Christians of Europe are ...
... Christians in possession of every form , ceremony , circumstance and device , which to our eyes stamps the Mussul- And the Mussulmans are abandoning these things to become like unto Christians ! while again the Christians of Europe are ...
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