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Arabs, the
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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"a noble-gifted people, swift-handed, deep-hearted, something most agile, active, yet most meditative, enthusiastic in their character; a people of wild, strong feelings, and iron restraint over these. In words too, as in action, not a loquacious people, taciturn rather, but eloquent, gifted when they do speak, an earnest, truthful kind of men, of Jewish kindred indeed, but with that deadly terrible earnestness of the Jews they seem to combine something graceful, brilliant, which is not Jewish." Such is Carlyle's opinion of the race from whom Mahomet sprang, as given in his "Heroes."
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Arabs, the'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/a/arabs-the.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Arabs, the'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/a/arabs-the.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
