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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 Pictorial Bible: Psalms-Malachi

John Kitto - Bible - 1856 - 750 pages
...their distress.' — SODTHF.Y. The following reference to this delusion occurs in the Koran : — ' si8V 0 Major Skinner, in his Journey Overland to India, gives this description of the appearance of the sarab...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Volume 6

Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1856 - 424 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. LAXLA ROOKH had, the night before, been visited by a dream which, in spite of...
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The Koran: Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed

1856 - 692 pages
...he pleaseth without measure. But as to the unbelievers, their works are like the vapour in a plain,1 which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until, when he cometh thereto, a part of their ransom. Some suppose these words are directed, not to the masters only, but to all...
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Poetical works, with a life of the author (abridged from W. Howitt).

Thomas Moore - 1859 - 606 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...thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he uometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing." — Koran, chap. 24. Page 381. " A flower that the Rid-musk...
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Evangelical Christendom, Volumes 13-14

Christian union - 1859 - 1240 pages
...alluded to in the Koran, Sur xxiv. 39 : " But as to the unbeliever, their works are like the mirage in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to...when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing." How much more of beauty would there be found in the passage if we render it " And the mirage shall...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore: With Life

Thomas Moore - 1866 - 580 pages
...it, with as mnch accuracy as thongh it had been the face of a clear and still lake." — Pottinger. " As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain, whleh the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be...
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The Land and the Book, Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the ..., Volume 2

William McClure Thomson - Bible - 1859 - 650 pages
...translates serab by vapor: "The works of unbelievers are like the vapor serab in a plain which the thirsty thinketh to be water, until, when he cometh thereto, he findeth it nothing." Mohammed meant the mirage, and gave the proper name for it. The peasants of Sharon differ...
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The Land and the Book, Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the ..., Volume 2

William McClure Thomson - Bible - 1859 - 636 pages
...translates serab by vapor: "The works of unbelievers are like the vapor serab in a plain which the thirsty thinketh to be water, until, when he cometh thereto, he findeth it nothing." Mohammed meant the mirage, and gave the proper name for it. The peasants of Sharon differ...
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The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed

1860 - 688 pages
...bestoweth on whom he pleaseth without measure. But at 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, a pan of their ransom. Some suppose these words ore directed, not to the masters only, but to all Moslems...
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The Land and the Book, Volume 2

William McClure Thomson - Bible - 1860 - 640 pages
...translates serab by vapor : " The works of unbelievers are like the vapor serab in a plain which the thirsty thinketh to be water, until, when he cometh thereto, he findeth it nothing." Mohammed meant the mirage, and gave the proper name for it. The peasants of Sharon differ...
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