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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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Introduction to Meteorology

David Purdie Thomson - Meteorology - 1849 - 516 pages
...xxxv. 7,— Ijowth's Transla., note ; Ib. xli. 18; Psal. cvii. 35; Jcr. xv. 18, marginal reading. as to unbelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing." The Arabian and Persian writers often describe the magical effects of the mirage, in the glowing language...
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Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance

Thomas Moore - 1849 - 304 pages
...face of a clear and still lake." — fottinger. " As to tile unbelievers, their works are like a vapor in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he coineth thereto he Dndcth it to be nothing." — Koran, chap. 24. LALLA ROOKH had, the night before,...
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Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance

Thomas Moore - English fiction - 1850 - 322 pages
...it, with as much accuracy as though it had been the face of a clear and still lake." — FOTTINOER. " As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour...thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he conreth thereto he findeili it to be nothing."— Koran, chap. 24. LALLA ROOKH had, the night before,...
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, According ..., Volume 4

Bible - 1851 - 922 pages
...water. It occurs in the 'Koran. (cA. 24.) 'Bui as to the unbelievers, ' 'their works are like a vapor r" ' Bp. Lowth. V. 8—10. The knowledge of the truth and will of God, and of the way of acceptance and...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore - 1851 - 918 pages
...face of a clear and still lake."— rottiiiffir. " As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapor in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he comiHh thereto he Ihulelh it tu be nothing.'*— Аш-зн, chap. 34. (267) u A wind which prevails...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Volume 6

Thomas Moore - 1853 - 368 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...thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he comcth thereto he findeth it to be nothing. "— Koran, chap. 24. LALLA ROOKH had, the night before,...
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Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance

Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1854 - 316 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. LALLA EOOKH had, the night before, been visited by a dream which, in spite of...
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The Mediterranean: A Memoir Physical, Historical, and Nautical

William Henry Smyth - Mediterranean Region - 1854 - 544 pages
...which shall become a pool' of Isaiah (xxxv. 7); the Sar&b (vapouv of the desert) which Mahomet says 'the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until,...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing!' (Koran, chapter xxiv.); and the deceitful sea of the desert of Sogdiana, described by Quintus Curtius...
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The Anvár-i Suhailí, Or The Lights of Canopus: Being the Persian Version of ...

Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī - Fables of Bidpai - 1854 - 818 pages
...Kur'an, Fl. xxiv. 40; Mar. 41 ; Sale, p. 269, 1. 1 : 'But as to the unbelievers, their works ure like the vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, nntil, when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing ; but he findeth God with him, and he will...
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The Anvár-i Suhailí, Or The Lights of Canopus: Being the Persian Version of ...

Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī - Fables of Bidpai - 1854 - 698 pages
...Kur'an, Fl. xxiv. 40 ; Mar. 41; Sale, p. 269, 1. 1 : 'But as to the unbelievers, their works are like the vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, nntil, when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing ; but fae fiudeth God with him, and he willfully...
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