 The nice sensibility of honor, which weighs the insult rather than the injury, sheds its deadly venom on the quarrels of the Arabs : the honor of their women, and of their beards, is most easily wounded ; an indecent action, a contemptuous word, can be...  Mount Sinai, Petra, and the Desert, Described and Illustrated - Stran 148avtor: William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 165 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Edward Gibbon - 1789 - 424 strani
...venom on the quarrels of the Arabs : the honour of their women , and of their beards, is moft eafily wounded ; an indecent action, a contemptuous word...be expiated only by the blood of the offender; and fuch is their patient inveteracy, that they expect whole months and yearsthe opportunity of revenge.... | |
 | Joseph Lomas Towers - 1796 - 518 strani
...: the honour of their ' women, and of their beards, is moft eafily wounded ; an * indecent aftion, a contemptuous word, can be expiated ' only by the blood of the offender; and fuch is their pa' tient inveteracy, that they expeft whole months and ' years the opportunity of revenge.... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 474 strani
...venom on the quarrels of the Arabs : the honour of their women, and of their beardi, is molt eafily wounded; an indecent action, a contemptuous word,...be expiated only by the blood of the offender ; and fuch is their patient inveteracy, that they expect whole months and years the opportunity of revenge.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1802 - 524 strani
...Arabs : the honour of their women, and of their beards, is moft eafily wounded ; an indecent attion, a contemptuous word, can be expiated only by the blood of the offender ; and fuch is their patient inveteracy, that they expect whole months and years the opportunity of revenge.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 strani
...than the injury, shed its deadly venom on the quarrels of the Arabs: the honour of their women, and of their beards, is most easily wounded ; an indecent...patient inveteracy, that they expect whole months 35 Observe the first chapter of Job, and tlie long wall of 1500 stadia (which Sesostris built from... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 strani
...Arabs: the honour of their women, and of their beards, is most easily wounded. An indelicate action, or a contemptuous word, can be expiated only by the blood...they expect whole months and years the opportunity for revenge. In every inhabited district, fires are lighted up at night, which are called the fires... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1807 - 492 strani
...the reft of the tribe. Among the Arabs, the honour of their women, and their beards, is moft eafily wounded ; an indecent action, a contemptuous word,...be expiated only by the blood of the offender ; and fuch is is their patient inveteracy, that they will wait whole months and years the opportunity of... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 strani
...the injury, sheds its deadly venom on the quarrels of the Arabs : the honor of their women, and of their beards, is most easily wounded ; an indecent...the offender ; and such is their patient inveteracy j that they expect whole months and years the opportunity of revenge. The refined malice of the Arabs... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 strani
...shed its deadly venom on the quarrels of the Arabs : the honour of their women, and of their leards, is most easily wounded ; an indecent action, a contemptuous...the offender : and such is their patient inveteracy, 35 Observe the first chapter of Job, and the lonpr wall of 1500 stadia (which Srsostris built from... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 strani
...weighs the insult rather than the injury, sheds its deadly venom on the quarrels of the Arabs : — an indecent action, a contemptuous word, can be expiated...whole months and years the opportunity of revenge."* And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing,... | |
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