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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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The works of Thomas Moore, comprehending all his melodies, ballads ..., Volume 1

Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 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 2?5. A flower that the Bidmusk has juit passed over. " A wind which prevails...
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Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land

William Rae Wilson - Egypt - 1824 - 506 pages
...deserts, the paths across which are marked out * Isaiah, xxxv. 7. Job, xxiv. 2. Jeremiah, xv. 18. " As to unbelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain,...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing." Koran, c. xxiv. by heaps of stones to insure a safe track to the traveller, and prevent his going astray,...
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Abdallah, an oriental poem. With other pieces

Horace Gwynne - English poetry - 1824 - 186 pages
...traveller on Its dim, unreal waves to taste; — " But as to the unbelievers, their works are like the vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing." — Koran, c, 24. " Towards evening many persons were astonished with the appearance of a long lake,...
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The London Magazine, Volume 9

1824 - 706 pages
...alone his thirst will cease. Love» of the Angelí. But as to the unbelievers, their works are like the vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he cometh thereto he fmdeth it to be nothing. Al Koran, c. 24, by Sak. Where right and wrong so close resemble, That what...
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1825 - 896 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...thinketh to be water, until, when he cometh thereto, he findetb it to be nothing." Mr. Sale's note on this place is; " The Arabic word scrub signifies that...
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Isaiah. A new translation; with a preliminary dissertation, and notes, by R ...

Isaiah (the prophet) - 1825 - 450 pages
...distance has the appearance of water. It occurs in the Koran, chap. xxiv. " But as to the unhelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain ; which the thirsty traveller thinketh to he water, until, when he cometh thereto, he flndeth it to ho nothing." Mr. Sale's note on this place...
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The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq, Volume 1

Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 326 pages
...accuracy as though it had been the face of a clear and still l&}iQ."—FoUingw, "As to the unhelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinkeflt to tu wnter. until when he cometh thereto, t)g pu.dlTt|i .if to be DQtlung.".— Kfrgn, dfy....
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A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Holy Scriptures: For the Use of ...

William Carpenter - Bible - 1826 - 858 pages
...on the passage he remarks, that there is a reference to the same thing in the Koran (ch.xxiv.) — " But as to the unbelievers, their works are like a...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing." On this quotation Mr. Sale's note is, that " the Arabic word serab signifies that false appearance...
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Critica Biblica: or, Depository of sacred literature, comprising remarks on ...

William Carpenter - 1824 - 604 pages
...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 vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketb to be water, until, when he cometb thereto, he findeth it to be nothing.' Mr. Sale's note...
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The poetical works of Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore - 1827 - 426 pages
...much accuracy as though it had beeu ' the face of a clear and still lake.» — Ротпяскв. « As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour , in a plain, which tbe thirsty traveller thinketh to be | water, until when he cometh thereto he finde th it t i benothing.»...
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