 | Henri van Laun - 1876 - 120 pages
...1667—1745. XIII.— THE VISION OF MIRZA. Os the fifth day of the moon, which10 according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy," after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions,13 I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to 1 As I remember t1e told a lady,... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 pages
...idea to a word of three " syllables : ' On the fifth day of the moon, which, " according to the custom of my forefathers, I always " keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up "my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of " Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in medita"... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...to a word of three syllables ; ' On the 5th day of the moon, which, according to tini custom of mv forefathers, I always keep holy, after having^ washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of Bagdat, in order to pass rhe rest of the day m meditation... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 328 pages
...translated word for word as follows : — On the 5th day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 414 pages
...translated word for word as follows : — On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of iBagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 826 pages
...to a word of Ilirec syllables ; * On the 5th day of the moon, which, according to the custom of i iv forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, 1 ascended the high hill of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of (he <1ay m meditation... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...mortal tight, I will remove " — Virgil. On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom tions, they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius before morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
 | Granville series - 1881 - 376 pages
...translated word for word as follows : — 2. " On the fifth clay of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions I ascended the high hills of Bagdat,5 in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1881 - 426 pages
...MIRZA, EXHIBITING A PICTURE OF HUMAN LIFE. On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1881 - 700 pages
...three syllables : " On the 6th day of the moon, whieh, aeeording to the eustom of my fore fathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I aseended the high hill of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
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Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely... 
