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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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Lalla Rookh, with 69 illustr. by J. Tenniel

Thomas Moore - 1861 - 426 pages
...it with as much accuracy as though it had been the face of a clear and still lake." — Potlinger. " As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour...when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing." — Koran, chap. 24. Note 266, p. 215. — The Bidmwik had just passed oeer. — "A wind which prevails...
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Poetical Works

Thomas Moore - 1861 - 778 pages
...As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapor In a plain, which the thirsty traveller thlnkelh to be water, until when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be Bothlng." — Koran, chap. £1. to her Ladies, when FERASIORZ appeared at the door of the pavilion....
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The poetical works of Thomas Moore, with illustr. by K. Halswelle

Thomas Moore - 1863 - 580 pages
...it, with as much accuracy as though it had been the face of a clear and still lake." — Pottingtr. "As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour...when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing." — Koran, chap. 24. Page 99. A flower that the Bidmusk has just pass'd over. " A wind which prevails...
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First love and last love, Volume 2; Volume 175

James Grant - 1868 - 328 pages
...thereto a scrap of paper, on which was written the following lines from the 24th chapter of the Koran : " As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour...when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing." Beyond lay the College and the dreadful debris of the exploded magazine, the long fa.fa.de of the beautiful...
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First Love and Last Love: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny

James Grant - India - 1869 - 464 pages
...a scrap of paper, on which was written the following lines from the 24th chapter of the Koran : — "As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour...which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, uutil when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing." Beyond lay the College and the dreadful...
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The Koran, Commonly Called The Alcoran of Mohammed

1870 - 482 pages
...bestoweth on whom he pleaseth without measure. But as to the unbelievers, their works are like the vapor in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing ; but he findeth GOD with him, and he will fully pay him his account ; and GOD is swift in taking an...
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The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and ...

William McClure Thomson - Bible - 1870 - 784 pages
...serab by vapour: " The works of unbelievers are like the vapour serai in a plain, which the thirsty thinketh to be water, until, when he cometh thereto, he findeth it nothing." Mohammed meant the mirage, and he gave the proper name for it. The peasants of Sharon differ...
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Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance

Thomas Moore - 1871 - 356 pages
...face of a clear and still lake." — Pottinger. " As to tin- unbelievers, their works are like a vapor in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he cometh thereto be Bndoth it to be nothing." — Koran, chap. 24. LALLA ROOKH had, the night before, been visited by...
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The Koran: Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed; Translated Into English ...

1871 - 694 pages
...he pleaseth without measure. But os 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 nre directed, not to the musters only, but to all...
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The poetical works of Thomas Moore, with notes, Issue 354

Thomas Moore - 1872 - 662 pages
...it, with as much accuracy as though it had boon the face of a clear and still lake.'— Pottinger. ' As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain, which the thirst* traveller thinketh to be water, until when he eometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing.'—...
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