 The thing you ask of me is both difficult and useless. Although I have passed all my days in this place, I have neither counted the houses nor have I inquired into the number of the inhabitants ; and as to what one person loads on his mules, and the other...  Publications of the American Statistical Association - Page 352by American Statistical Association - 1916Full view - About this book
 | 1904 - 660 pages
...and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship, thut is no business of mine. But above all, as to the previous...city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusion that the infidels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islam. It were unprofitable for... | |
 | 1883 - 998 pages
...inquired into the number of inhabitants ; and as to what this person loads oil his mules, and that one stows away in the bottom of his ship, that is no business of mine. . . . We, praise be to God, were born here and never desire to quit it. Is it possible, then, that... | |
 | L. H. Gann, Peter Duignan - 1969 - 748 pages
...nor have I inquired into the number of the inhabitants; and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship,...city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusion that the infidels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islam. It were unprofitable for... | |
 | Janet L. Abu-Lughod - 1991 - 466 pages
...houses nor have I inquired into the number of inhabitants; and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship,...city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusion that the infidels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islam. It were unprofitable for... | |
 | Carlo M. Cipolla - 1992 - 212 pages
...nor have I inquired into the number of the inhabitants; and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship,...city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusion that the infidels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islam. It were unprofitable for... | |
 | John Lukacs - 456 pages
...The famous letter of the Khadi to Layard: "The thing you ask of me is both difficult and useless. ... As to the previous history of this city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusion that the infidels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islam. It were unprofitable for... | |
 | Gipsy Petulengro - 1996 - 138 pages
...• bolt™ ? H1?8* ,of T n 108dS on hiS mules, and the other stows ««y inTe bottom of his ships, that is- no business of mine. But, above all, as to the ore *7 of ±B Clty God onl knowa th6 anount of dirt and 'confusion the C0ming of the «ort of Islam.... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 2000 - 324 pages
...nor have I inquired into the number of the inhabitants; and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship,...of this city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusions that the infidels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islam. It were unprofitable... | |
 | Sarah D. Shields - 2000 - 296 pages
...nor have I inquired into the number of the inhabitants; and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship, that is no business of mine." Fourth edition (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985), 3. 55. Donald Quataert, Social Disintegration... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2004 - 276 pages
...nor have I inquired into the number of the inhabitants; and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship,...business of mine. But, above all, as to the previous -*». 22 } history of this city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusion that the infidels... | |
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