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DAMASCUS.
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stupidity ; in short, nothing but a sense of duty could carry any European through the Koran.
We read it, as we might in the State Paper Office unreadable masses of lumber, that we may
get some glimpses of a remarkable man." And yet there are Mohammedan doctors who are
reported to have read the Koran
seventy thousand times ! What a differ-
ence of national and religious taste !
Emanuel Deutsch finds the grandeur
of the Koran chiefly in its Arabic diction,
" the peculiarly dignified, impressive,
sonorous nature of Semitic sound and
parlance ; its sesqui-pedalia verba, with their crowd of prefixes and affixes, each of them
affirming its own position, while consciously bearing upon and influencing the central root,
which they envelop like a garment of many folds, or as chosen courtiers move round the
anointed person of the king."
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RUINED TOMBS, PALMYRA.
In the Wady el Kubur. The largest one, on the right, is eighty feet high.
There is an inscription on it which states that it was built as a family
tomb by Elabelos, in the Seleucian year 414 (a.d. 102).
425
stupidity ; in short, nothing but a sense of duty could carry any European through the Koran.
We read it, as we might in the State Paper Office unreadable masses of lumber, that we may
get some glimpses of a remarkable man." And yet there are Mohammedan doctors who are
reported to have read the Koran
seventy thousand times ! What a differ-
ence of national and religious taste !
Emanuel Deutsch finds the grandeur
of the Koran chiefly in its Arabic diction,
" the peculiarly dignified, impressive,
sonorous nature of Semitic sound and
parlance ; its sesqui-pedalia verba, with their crowd of prefixes and affixes, each of them
affirming its own position, while consciously bearing upon and influencing the central root,
which they envelop like a garment of many folds, or as chosen courtiers move round the
anointed person of the king."
55
RUINED TOMBS, PALMYRA.
In the Wady el Kubur. The largest one, on the right, is eighty feet high.
There is an inscription on it which states that it was built as a family
tomb by Elabelos, in the Seleucian year 414 (a.d. 102).