Scenes in Asia,: For the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-home Travellers

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Harris and Son, 1822 - Asia - 118 pages

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Page 100 - And I will make thee like the top of a rock : thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon ; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
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Page 59 - ... shall tell the truth." On the contrary, it is related that when Petrarch, an Italian poet, a man of strict integrity, was summoned as a witness, and offered in the usual manner to take an oath before a court of 'justice, the judge closed the book, saying, "As to you, Petrarch, уинг WORD is sufficient.
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Page 59 - WHEN Aristotle was once asked, what a man could gain by uttering falsehoods? he replied, " Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth." The character of a liar is at once so hateful and contemptible, that even of those who have lost their virtue it might be expected that from the violation of truth they should be restrained by their pride. Almost every other vice that disgraces human nature, may be kept in...
Page 86 - He shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against every man, And every man's hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Page 60 - ... Cardinal closed the book, saying, " as to you, Petrarch, your WORD is sufficient." From the story of Petrarch we may learn how great respect is paid to those whose character for truth is established; and from the reply of Aristotle, the folly as well as wickedness of lying...
Page v - ... advantage and pleasure. To render this small System as useful as may be, great care has been taken, to express every idea with perspicuity, and at the same time with the utmost brevity. . . . A quotation from Davidson's verse makes quickly evident its doggerel quality: A going, a going, we'll set off in style, The wonders of Asia to see; We'll take our farewell of Old England awhile, And give a good jump o'er the sea. O'er Europe we've wandered, so won't go again, But skip to the Black Sea in...

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