 ... religion, whatever it be, which is reflected upon them from the persons with whom they happen to converse. With Christians they profess themselves Christians ; with Turks they are good Mussulmans ; with Jews they pass for Jews ; being such proteuses...  Syria and Asia Minor - Page 267by Josiah Conder - 1824Full view - About this book
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1785 - 718 pages
...Proteus's in religion, that no body was ever able to difcover what fhape or ftandard their confciences are really of. All that is certain concerning them is, that they make very good wine, and are great drinkers. Friday, March 5. This whole day we fpent at Jebilee to recruit ourfelves... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1811 - 804 pages
...Proteus's in religion that no body was ever able to difcover what ihape or ftandard their confciences are really of. All that is certain concerning them...make very much and good wine, and are great drinkers. Friday, March 5. — This whole day we fpent at Jebilee, to recruit ourfelves after our late fatigues... | |
 | Henry Maundrell - Jerusalem - 1836 - 294 pages
...With Christians they profess themselves Christians ; with Turks they are good Mussulmans ; with Jews they pass for Jews ; being such proteuses in religion,...make very much and good wine, and are great drinkers. FRIDAY, MARCH 5. THIS whole day we spent at Jebilee to recruit ourselves after our late fatigues ;... | |
 | George Robinson - Eretz Israel - 1837 - 486 pages
...Christians; with Turks they are good Mussulmen ; with Jews they pass for Jews, being such Pretenses in religion, that nobody was ever able to discover...very much and good wine, and are great drinkers." Note 12, page 84. Travellers in these unfrequented parts cannot be too circumspect in the choice of... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1838 - 724 pages
...Sooffees, outwardly conform to the religion of those they mix with. Maundrell, after describing them as " such Proteuses in religion, that nobody was ever able...shape or standard their consciences are really of," adds : " All that is certain concerning them is, that they make very much and good wine, and are great... | |
 | John Relly Beard - Bible - 1847 - 660 pages
...(hey pass for Jews; being such Proteases in religion that nobody was ever able to discover what shape their consciences are really of. All that is certain...make very much and good wine, and are great drinkers' (16) CHAMOIS is, in zoology, the common name of the Antílope rupicapra. The antílope is a gregarious... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1848 - 566 pages
...Christians; with Turks they are good Mussulmans; with Jews they pass for * The Nosairi, or Anaariuns. Jews ; being such Proteuses in religion, that nobody...make very much and good wine, and are great drinkers. March 5. — This whole day we spent at Jebilee, to recruit ourselves after our late fatigues ; having... | |
 | Thomas Wright - History - 1848 - 564 pages
...are good Mussulmans; with Jews they pass for * The Nosairi, or Ansarians. Jews ; being such Proteases in religion, that nobody was ever able to discover...make very much and good wine, and are great drinkers. March 5. — This whole day we spent at Jebilee, to recruit ourselves after our late fatigues ; having... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1850 - 656 pages
...they pass for Jews ; being such Proteases in religion that nobody was ever able to discover what shape their consciences are really of. All that is certain...make very much and good wine, and are great drinkers' (18) CHAMOIS is, in zoology, the common name of the Antilope rupicapra. The antilope is a gregarious... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1852 - 516 pages
...With Christians they profess themselves Christians ; with Turks, they are good Mussulmans ; with Jews, they pass for Jews ; being such Proteuses in religion,...very much and good wine, and are great drinkers." This last statement is fathered by Mr. Walpole on Pococke. The latter learned traveller says of the... | |
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