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It will give an idea of this style of composition to recite the beginning: "In the name of God, most clement and merciful, Also benediction and homage to the prophet Mohammed, In the name of God, listen to the words of the author, This is what the Talebs tell, according to the august Koran.
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There are, undoubtedly, two faults in this passage, which I have endeavoured to take away by reading, --Daggers Unmanly drench'd with gore.-- I saw drench'd with the king's Mood the fatal daggers, not only instruments of murder but evidences of cowardice.
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If the evidence of its being a revelation, or that this is its true sense, be only on probable proofs, our assent can reach no higher than an assurance or diffidence, arising from the more or less apparent probability of the proofs.
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Leith's deviltry had so impressed me that I considered him capable of anything, and if he thought we were out of the way, I had no doubt that he would take immediate steps to break down the courage of the Professor and his daughters by means that were familiar to him.
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When the vessels came to their moorings, close to the land, Alcibiades, from fear of his enemies, was unwilling to disembark at once.
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VIVIE with intense contempt for them If I thought that I was like that--that I was going to be a waster, shifting along from one meal to another with no purpose, and no character, and no grit in me, I'd open an artery and bleed to death without one moment's hesitation.
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So the merry voices become faint, and the bright sunset slowly wanes away, a rosy flush upon the splendid sky, dragging another day of work or idleness, despair or joy, into oblivion!
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There was no doubt or indecision about any part of our affair, was there, little one?"
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Tudor stood by the table facing Piers, his attitude one of supreme indifference.
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He was accustomed to view and review the question, in all its bearings and possible consequences, and to invent fresh causes of delay, till he occasionally incurred the suspicion of irresolution and timidity.
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The City of Brousa--Return to Civilization--Storm--The Kalputcha Hammam--A Hot Bath--A Foretaste of Paradise--The Streets and Bazaars of Brousa--The Mosque--The Tombs of the Ottoman Sultans--Disappearance of the Katurgees--We start for Moudania--The Sea of Marmora--Moudania--Passport Difficulties--A Greek Caique--Breakfast with the Fishermen--A Torrid Voyage--The Princes' Islands--Prinkipo--Distant View of Constantinople--We enter the Golden Horn.
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Their great defect in the time of Ahab was timidity.
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I observe, too, a vacillation in your step, a joyous inquietude in your eyes.
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1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
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But if the reviler has as a stepping-stone (or ladder) the weakness of him who is reviled, then he accomplishes something.
