 | Arabic prose literature - 1841 - 660 pages
...given to the loadstone a secret property by virtue of which everything of iron is attracted towards it. On that mountain is such a quantity of iron as...ships have been destroyed by the influence of that mountain.78 There is, upon the summit of the mountain, a cupola of brass supported by ten columns,... | |
 | 1841 - 664 pages
...given to the loadstone a secret property by virtue of which everything of iron is attracted towards it. On that mountain is such a quantity of iron as...ships have been destroyed by the. influence of that mountain.7* There is, upon the summit of the mountain, a cupola of brass supported by ten columns,... | |
 | Arabic literature - 1847 - 550 pages
...given to the loadstone a secret property by virtue of which everything of iron is attracted towards it. On that mountain is such a quantity of iron as no one knowcth but God, whose name be exalted; for from times of old great numbers of ships have been destroyed... | |
 | 1848 - 622 pages
...adhere to it; for God hath given to the loadstone a secret property by virtue of which every thing of iron is attracted toward it. On that mountain is...of this cupola is a horseman upon a horse of brass, having in his hand a brazen spear, and upon his breast suspended a tablet of lead, upon which are engraved... | |
 | 1853 - 896 pages
...to the loadstone a secret property by virtue of which everything of iron is attracted towards it. 0n that mountain is such a quantity of iron as no one...of this cupola is a horseman upon a horse of brass, having in his hand a brazen spear, and upon his breast suspended a tablet of lead, upon which are engraved... | |
 | Edward Stanley Poole - Fables, Arabic - 1859 - 594 pages
...given to the loadstone a secret property by virtue of which everything of iron is attracted towards it. On that mountain is such a quantity of iron as...ships have been destroyed by the influence of that mountain.72 There is, upon the summit of the mountain, a cupola of brass supported by ten columns,... | |
 | Arabian nights - 1859 - 612 pages
...seeret property by virtuc of whieh everything of iron is attraeted towards it. 0n that mountain is sueh a quantity of iron as no one knoweth but God, whose...great numbers of ships have been destroyed by the influcnee of that mountain.7* There is, upon the summit of the mountain, a eupola of brass supported... | |
 | Edward William Lane - 1859 - 602 pages
...seeret property by virtue of whieh everything of iron is attraeted towards it. On that mountain is sueh a quantity of iron as no one knoweth but God, whose...great numbers of ships have been destroyed by the influenee of that mountain.7* There is, upon the summit of the mountain, a eupola of brass supported... | |
 | Edward William Lane - Arabs - 1865 - 598 pages
...given to the loadstone a secret property by virtue of which everything of iron is attracted towards it. On that mountain is such a quantity of iron as...of this cupola is a horseman upon a horse of brass, having in his hand a brazen spear, and upon his breast suspended a tablet of lead, upon which are engraved... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Adventure and adventurers - 1881 - 372 pages
...called loadstone : the current is now bearing us violently toward it, and the ship will fall in pieces ; for God hath given to the loadstone a secret property,...been destroyed by the influence of that mountain." On the following morning we drew near to the mountain ; the current carried us toward it with violence,... | |
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There is, upon the summit of the mountain, a cupola of brass supported by ten columns, and upon the top of this cupola is a horseman upon a horse of brass, having in his hand a brazen spear, and upon his breast suspended a tablet of lead, upon •which... 
