| Joseph A. Graves - 1900 - 170 pages
...southwest, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapor; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean,...armies, have been lost and buried in the whirlwind. CIV. The common benefits of water are an object of desire and contest; and such is the scarcity of... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...southwest, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapor; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean,...navigable rivers, which fertilize the soil, and convey its produce to the adjacent regions ; the torrents that fall from the hills are imbibed by the thirsty... | |
| Helmuth Graf von Moltke - Europe - 1893 - 670 pages
...and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan , could never achieve the conquest of Arabia." 245) ©ibbon VI, 250: .,The common benefits of -water are an object of desire and contest." 246) ©ibbon VI, 261: „They pretend, that, in the division of the earth, the rich and fertile climates... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1923 - 578 pages
...south-west, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapour ; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean...whirlwind. The common benefits of water are an object of <Jesire ^ffid" contest ; and such is the scarcflj^ofwood that some art is requisite to preserve and... | |
| Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1897 - 426 pages
...southwest, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapor; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean,...navigable rivers, which fertilize the soil and convey its produce to the adjacent regions; the torrents that fall from the hills are imbibed by the thirsty earth;... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 640 pages
...and oven deadly vapor ; the hillocks of sand which they alternate^ raise and scatter, are compare i to the billows of the ocean, and whole caravans, whole...navigable rivers, which fertilize the soil, and convey its produce to the adjacent regions : the torrents that fall from the hills are imbibed by the thirsty... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 676 pages
...the SW, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapor; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean,...navigable rivers, which fertilize the soil, and convey ita produce to the adjacent regions: the torrents that fall from the hills are imbibed by the thirsty... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 570 pages
...south-west, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapour; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean...preserve and propagate the element of fire. Arabia opened to us the Arabia of Abulfeda, the most copious and correct account of the peninsula, which may... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 612 pages
...southwest, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapor; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean,...navigable rivers, which fertilize the soil and convey its produce to the adjacent regions; the torrents that fall from the hills are imbibed by the thirsty earth;... | |
| Archibald Henry Sayce - Arabian Peninsula - 1906 - 612 pages
...southwest, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapor; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean,...scarcity of wood that some art is requisite to preserve anil propagate the element of fire. Arabia is destitute of navigable rivers, which fertilize the soil... | |
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