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All the synagogues of the kingdom of Persia falling thereupon into great fear of the matter, sent letters therefore unto the heads of the captivity, and to the heads of all the assemblies in Bagdat to this purpose: Why should we die before your eyes, as well we as all the universities subject unto this kingdom?
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(MY BROTHER HEARD IT) - In the most civilized street of Istanbul (Bagdat street) there were restaurants having announcements: “The income of today will be donated to the Gazans”.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The word was variously written Baghdád, Bághdád, (our old Bughdaud and Bagdat),
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Bagdat, where I made vast sums of my pepper, wood of aloes, and pearls.
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always kept holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but, instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul; but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveller, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat.
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This gentleman is this afternoon arrived from Denmark; and that is my Lord Ride, who came yesterday from Bagdat; here is Captain Friese, from Cape Turnagain; and
Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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[247] "They fasten some writing to the wings of a Bagdat, or Babylonian pigeon."
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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It is not twelve years since a certain man named David Elroi arose in the city of Omaria, who was the disciple of Chasdai, the head of the captivity, and of Jacob the honourable head of the assembly of Levi, in the metropolitan city of Bagdat; he became very learned in the law of Moses, and in the books of doctrine, and also in all wisdom; in the language of the
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