 | 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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... | |
 | Laura Emma Lockwood, Amy Ruth Kelly - Letter-writing - 1911 - 326 pages
...an 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 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... | |
 | Stanley V. Makower, Basil H. Blackwell - English essays - 1913 - 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 Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby - Short stories - 1913 - 294 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 15 pass the rest of the day in... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1914 - 248 pages
...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 ofl'ered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1914 - 724 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1915 - 464 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... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...translated word for word as follows: [10 "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... | |
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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... 
