Rambles in Bible Lands (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Here in these 'morning lands' the traveller who has exhausted the sights and scenes of civilized Europe will come upon a new world, where all is strange and has for him the charm of perfect novelty, though it actually exhibits a life years old! Whatever we do, they may be said to do the same thing in another way, and they live under an environment foreign to ours at all points. Volney, in his Travels Syria, states this very emphatically. He says it is a wonderful thing that men of like passions with ourselves and of the same indo-european Stock should do everything differently from us, and should live under surrounding conditions Of life foreign to ours at all points. Men with us, when they shave, shave their faces, but never their head. Throughout the East they never let a razor touch their face, but Shave the whole of their head till it is perfectly bald, save one small lock, left by the Mohammedans on the crown. We wear close-fitting, and in most cases far from elegant, healthy, or comfortable garments. They, on the contrary, wear loose, flowing, most artistic, most sanitary, and most elegant clothingwtheir raiment nowhere compressing their person, except where, in the case Of men, women, and children, the girdle, the 207mm.

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