New voyages and travels: originals and translations [ed. by sir R. Phillips].1823 |
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... Five and forty years after our first acquaintance , I now availed myself of the opportunity which the interval of prepa- ration for our further progress afforded , to find him out , and to solicit his blessings for the country with ...
... Five and forty years after our first acquaintance , I now availed myself of the opportunity which the interval of prepa- ration for our further progress afforded , to find him out , and to solicit his blessings for the country with ...
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... five o'clock all was in order . The wind was throughout contrary ; but tacking and cruizing soon removed us from the sight of the Dutch coast . The continent gradually disappeared as we sailed over the wide expanse of sea , whilst we ...
... five o'clock all was in order . The wind was throughout contrary ; but tacking and cruizing soon removed us from the sight of the Dutch coast . The continent gradually disappeared as we sailed over the wide expanse of sea , whilst we ...
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... five o'clock . This supper takes place between the hours of nine and ten . It is natural , however , to imagine , from the way of life led by the great , that when we read of the supper commencing at four or five o'clock in the morning ...
... five o'clock . This supper takes place between the hours of nine and ten . It is natural , however , to imagine , from the way of life led by the great , that when we read of the supper commencing at four or five o'clock in the morning ...
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... five old women , whose united ages amounted to two hundred and eighty years : these persons , when they began to go to school , were scarcely acquainted with the alphabet ; but at the end of the year they were capable of reading very ...
... five old women , whose united ages amounted to two hundred and eighty years : these persons , when they began to go to school , were scarcely acquainted with the alphabet ; but at the end of the year they were capable of reading very ...
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... five hundred warriors , who are worn out by service , but gives a pension to ten thousand . There is a school also here for the education of orphans of meritorious officers and soldiers . OF THE STATE OF THE THEATRICAL PROFESSION in ...
... five hundred warriors , who are worn out by service , but gives a pension to ten thousand . There is a school also here for the education of orphans of meritorious officers and soldiers . OF THE STATE OF THE THEATRICAL PROFESSION in ...
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Page 66 - No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn : Taught by that power that pities me, I learn to pity them : ' But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. ' Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong : Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Page 109 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 16 - The Mahometans divide their religion into two general parts, faith and practice; of which the first is divided into six distinct branches : Belief in God, in his angels, in his scriptures, in his prophets, in the resurrection and final judgment, and in God's absolute decrees. The points relating to practice are, prayer, with washings, &c., alms, fasting, pilgrimage to Mecca, and circumcision.
Page 108 - Canighul, decorated with innumerable tents and pavilions, which displayed the luxury of a great city and the spoils of a victorious camp. Whole forests were cut down to supply fuel for the kitchens ; the plain was spread with pyramids of meat, and vases of every liquor, to which thousands of guests were courteously invited...
Page 96 - W]K> sent a horse for Scott to ride upon, and 27 dollars to buy provisions. After recruiting himself for three days longer, Scott, accompanied by the Moor, set off, and arrived safe at Mogador in five days, during which they travelled at the rate of at least thirty miles per day. As the place where Scott encountered the Moor is not above a mile and a half from Wadnoon, that place may be considered as about 150 miles from Mogador. Near the Moor's house was a river as large as canals usually are in...
Page 96 - Scott by the hand, told him he was safe, led him to his house, and gave him food. He afterwards desired Scott to write to the English Consul at Mogador ; and Scott did so. This man, leaving Scott under the care of his brother and his son, set off with the letter ; and after an absence of eight days, returned with a letter from William Willshire, Esq.