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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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Dissertations on Unaccomplished Prophecy

W. Snell Chauncy - Bible - 1838 - 456 pages
...hot countries, at a distance, has the appearance of water. The Koran, speaking of unbelievers, says, 'Their works are like a vapour in a plain, which the...thinketh to be water, until when he cometh thereto he finiluth it to be nothing.' Mr. Sale informs us, that the Arabic word serab, signifies that false appearance...
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Biblical topography, lectures

Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 pages
...the hot countries, at a distance, has the appearance of water. It occurs in the Koran, chap. 24, ' But as to the unbelievers, their works are like a...be water, until, when he cometh thereto, he findeth to be nothing.' Mr. Sale's note on this place is, ' The Arabic word serab signifies that false appearance...
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Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia and ..., Volume 2

Horatio Southgate - Armenia - 1840 - 406 pages
...of the finest similes in the Koran. " As to the unbelievers, their works are like the vapour in the plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be...he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing."* Just before entering the city, I left the mule and got upon my horse again, lest my forlorn appearance...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore: Lalla Rookh

Thomas Moore - 1841 - 366 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...thinketh to be water, until when he cometh thereto he nudeth it to be nothing." — Koran, chap. 24. LALLA ROOKH. LALLA ROOKH had, the night before, been...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Volume 6

Thomas Moore - 1841 - 392 pages
...with as much accuracy as though it had been the face of a clear and still lake. " — Pottinger. " A s to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour...thinketh to be water, until when he cometh thereto he nndeth it to be nothing." — Koran, chap. 24. LALLA ROOKH had, the night before, been visited by a...
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The Bible cyclopędia: or, Illustrations of the civil and natural history of ...

William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 734 pages
...which in the hot countries at a distance has the appearance of water. It occurs in the Koran, c. 24; 'But as to the unbelievers, their works are like a...thinketh to be water, until, when he cometh thereto, he findcth it to be nothing.' Mr. Sale's note on this passage is, 'The Arabic word serab, signifies that...
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A New Translation of the Hebrew Prophets: Joel ; Amos ; Hosea ; Isaiah ; and ...

George Rapall Noyes - 1843 - 328 pages
...an allusion to it in the Koran, ch. xxiv. " But as to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapor in a plain ; which the thirsty traveller thinketh...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing." Dr. Shaw, in his Travels, observes, that the phenomenon " is caused by the quivering undulating motion...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore - 1844 - 800 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...the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until i wben he Cometh thereto he findcth it to be nothing."— Koran, I chap. M. I ' '• Л wind which...
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A Pastor's Memorial of Egypt, the Red Sea, the Wildernesses of Sin and Paran ...

George Fisk - Eretz Israel - 1845 - 562 pages
...that/ail?" (Margin, "benot sure.") In the Koran, chap. xxiv. we f,nd a similar allusion — " Rut as to unbelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain,...thinketh to be water, until, when he cometh thereto, he rindcth it to be nothing." 120 DESERT OF SUEZ — DYING CAMEL. in motion between five and six in the...
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Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance

Thomas Moore - 1845 - 298 pages
...face of a clear and still lake." — Pottinger. " A* to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapor in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to...when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing." — Koran, chap. 24. LALLA ROOKH had, the night before, been visited by a dream which, in spite of...
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