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 1 Pre      |            and an anecdote, such as Oriental historians love, reveals
 2 Pre      |             much as it attracts the Oriental mind. "Give us a working
 3 Pre      |             the running sore of all Oriental countries."~Unfortunately,
 4 Pre      |       points out, the conditions of Oriental life are such as to enforce
 5 Pre      |              delighting, as only an Oriental can, in the necessity of
 6 Pre      |         phrases caught and held the Oriental ear; and the Oriental mind
 7 Pre      |           the Oriental ear; and the Oriental mind is faithful to a formula
 8 Pre      |         mental food supplied by the Oriental is as good as the other.
 9 Pre      |          the natural leaning of the Oriental poet towards a picturesque
10 Pre      | full-fledged mysticism worthy of an Oriental poet. St. Francis addresses
11 V(*)     |            Stanza 3.--Joseph is the Oriental type of perfect beauty.
12 IX(*)    |           are nothing more than the Oriental way of saying, "Awake, my
13 XXVIII(*)|             Stanza 1.--According to Oriental belief, Jesus Christ's gift
14 XXXV(*)  |        quite possibly be merely the Oriental way of writing a letter