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" In a subsequent age the zeal of the Nestorians overleaped the limits which had confined the ambition and curiosity both of the Greeks and Persians. The missionaries of Balch and Samarcand pursued without fear the footsteps of the roving Tartar, and insinuated... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 315
1817
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
...which had confmed the ambition and curiosity both of the Greeks and Persians. The missionaries of Balch and Samarcand pursued without fear the footsteps of...Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the . 116 See the Topographia Christiana of Cestnas, sumamed Indicoplenstes, cIT the Indian Navigator,...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 416 pages
...had confined the ambition and curiosity both of the Greeks and Persians. The missionaries of Balch and Samarcand pursued without fear the footsteps of the roving Tartar, and insinuated themselves jnto the camps of the valleys of Imaus and the banks of the Selinga. They exposed a metaphysical creed...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 pages
...which had confined the ambition and curiosity both of the Greeks and Persians The missionaries of Balch and Samarcand pursued without fear the footsteps of...insinuated themselves into the camps of the vallies of 116 See the Topographia Christiana of Cosmas, surnamed Indicopleustes, or the Indian Navigator, 1....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 17

1817 - 610 pages
...difficult to be traced as Mr. Murray supposes. Prester, or Presbyter John, (it should be, no doubt, Prester Khan,) was the chief of a Tartan clan, who received...insinuated themselves into the camps of the vallies of [mans, and the banks of the Selinga.' — ' In its long progress,' continues Gibbon, • to Mosul,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 85

1859 - 932 pages
...tidings to Ceylon and_ Bombay, we are still more su? read in Gibbon that " ( sionaries from Balkh a pursued without fear the footsteps of the roving Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the valleys of Imaus, and the banks of the Selinga." When India was thus penetrated and surrounded by Christian...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1827 - 916 pages
...derived their ordination from the Catholics * of Babylon. In a subsequent age the Missionaries of Baleh and Samarcand pursued without fear the footsteps of...Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the valley of Imans, and the banks of the Selinga. In their progress by sea and land the Nestorians entered...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 3

Edward Gibbon - 1830 - 442 pages
...had confined the ambition and curiosity both of the Greeks and Persians. The missionaries of Balch and Samarcand pursued without fear the footsteps of the roving Tartar, and insinuated them selves into the camps of the valleys of Imaus, and the banks of the Selinga. They exposed a metaphysical...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 17

1817 - 626 pages
...difficult to be traced as Mr. Murray supposes. Prester, or Presbyter John, (it should be, no doubt, Prester Khan,) was the chief of a Tartan clan, who received...Samarcand pursued, without fear, the footsteps of the rpving Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the valleys of Imaus.and the banks of the...
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An Analytical and Comparative View of All Religions Now Extant Among Mankind

Josiah Conder - 1838 - 724 pages
...had confined the ambition and curiosity both of the Greeks and Persians. The missionaries of Balkh and Samarcand pursued without fear the footsteps of...Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the valleys of Imaus and the banks of the Selinga. They exposed a metaphysical creed to those illiterate...
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The Nestorians: Or, The Lost Tribes

Asahel Grant - 1841 - 376 pages
...true sons of " the missionaries of Balkh and Samarcand," who, according to the testimony of Gibbon, " pursued without fear the footsteps of the roving Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the valleys of Imaus and the banks of the Selinga." If, in the early age of the Church, according to the...
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