 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Criticism - 1903 - 218 pages
...Mirza " will serve for illustration : " 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... | |
 | Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - American literature - 1905 - 614 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 Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
 | Readers - 1906 - 334 pages
...Anon THE VISION OF MIRZA. JOSEPH ADDISON. 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 Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
 | Edward Fulton - English language - 1906 - 286 pages
...eminent degree is very imperfectly exhibited. 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 D. Blackman - Authorship - 1908 - 328 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 Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
 | Harriet Eve Crandall - English language - 1908 - 290 pages
...Read the following imaginative sketch : 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... | |
 | George Iles - 1908 - 202 pages
...fixing an idea to a word of three syllables: "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 hill of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 578 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 Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...translated word for word as follows: — "On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom , he gave them his promissory * labour, tracked by bailiffs and reproachful credi morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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 Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
| |
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... 
