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  • Greece and Arabia, and the metropolis of an Empire exceeding in extent the widest limits of Rome, it was essentially a city of pleasure, a Paris of the ixth century.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Al – Abbás to shed tears; the Prophet sings a song of victory in the ixth year of the Hijrah (he died on the xth) and implores the pardon of his Lord.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Upone the Fryday, the [ixth [520]] of September, the Engliss army marched towardis Leyth, and the Scottishe army marched from Edinburgh to

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • In the ixth and xth Books of his De Trinitate Hilary refers to this, and says that the Father is called ` greater 'propter auctoritatem, meaning by auctoritas not power, but what the Greeks understand by aitiotes, causation, principle or authorship of being.

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • Honours -- according unto our duties -- such letters as we have found about the parties apprehended; and so resting in all duty at your Honours 'further command, we take leave, from Stourbridge this Saturday morning, being the ixth of this instant November 1605.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • -- How, one humbly asks, does the Reverend writer reconcile it to his conscience not only to have signed the ixth Article, but to employ the Baptismal Service, and to teach the little ones of the flock their Catechism?

    Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews." 1813-1888 1861

  • Hammer from Khumárawayh, second of the Banu-Tulún dynasty, at the end of the ixth century A.D., when stained glass was introduced into Egypt.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • "Mayyidí," an abbreviation of "Muayyadí," the Faddah, Nuss or half-dirham coined under Sultan al-Muayyad, A.H. ixth cent.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The Encyclopedia Britannica (ixth edit. of MDCCCLXXVI.), which omits the name of Professor Galland, one of the marking

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The centre of human civilisation, which was then confined to Greece and Arabia, and the metropolis of an Empire exceeding in extent the widest limits of Rome, it was essentially a city of pleasure, a Paris of the ixth century.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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