 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pages
...recollections of the Kurdish patriarch. When we sat down to eat, he implored a blessing with grcnt solemnity, and rendered his thanks when we arose....adopt the same form, when necessitated to perform the eatne duty irt the presence of Mussulmans." TRAVELS IN THE EAST. Mr. Suuthgatc was seriously indisposed... | |
 | American essays - 1869 - 796 pages
...evening devotions with apparent meekness and humility ; and I could not but feel how impressive are the Oriental forms of worship when I saw his aged head bowed to the earth in religious homage." Bishop Southgate adds further: "I have never known a Mussulman, sincere in his faith and devout and... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 548 pages
...evening devotions with apparent meekness and humility ; and I could not but feel how impressive are the Oriental forms of worship when I saw his aged head bowed to the earth in religious homage." Bishop Southgate adds further : " I have never known a Mussulman, sincere in his faith and devout and... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 544 pages
...evening devotions with apparent meekness and humility ; and I could not but feel how impressive are the Oriental forms of worship when I saw his aged head bowed to the earth in religious homage." Bishop Southgate adds further : " I have never known a Mussulman, sincere in his faith and devout and... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Religions - 1888 - 570 pages
...evening devotions with apparent meekness and humility ; and I could not but feel how impressive are the Oriental forms of worship when I saw his aged head bowed to the earth in religious homage." Bishop Southgate adds further : " I have never known a Mussulman, sincere in his faith and devout and... | |
 | American essays - 1869 - 960 pages
...evening devotions with apparent meekness and humility ; and I could not but feel how impressive are the Oriental forms of worship when I saw his aged head bowed to the earth in religious homage." Bishop Southgate adds further : " I have never known a Mussulman, sincere in his faith and devout and... | |
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When we sat down to eat, the old Turkish Bey implored a blessing with great solemnity, and rendered his thanks when we arose. Before he left us, he spread his carpet, and offered his evening devotions with apparent meekness and humility ; and I could... 