 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 322 pages
...read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other entertainment for them ; and shall begin with the first vision,...keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up ray morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 322 pages
...read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other entertainment for them ; and shall begin with the first vision,...custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after havmg washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order... | |
 | 1811 - 538 pages
...the Spectator which relates the vision of Mirza, very happily begins it in the following manner; " On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefather*, I alwavs kept holy." — A beginning which has long been, and always will be, felt and... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other entertainment for them ; and shall begin with the first vision,...devotions. I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in. order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...struck my young fancy before I was capable of fixing an idea to a word of three syllables. " On the 5tk day of the moon, which, according to the custom of...offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day In meditation and prayer. " • This day ; the... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...struck my young fancy before I was capable of 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 hnlJ, after having washed myself, and oftcrcd up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...was capable of fixing- an idea to a word of three syllables. ' On the 5th clay of the moon, whicL, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having1 washed myself, and ofôrccl up my morning devotions, I ascended the high lull of Hagdat, in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other entertainment for them ; and shall begin with the first vision,...according to the custom of my forefathers I always kept holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my rooming devotions, I ascended the high hills... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...public when I have no other entertainment for them ; and shall begin with the first vision, which I hare translated word for word as follows : " ON the fifth...according to the custom of my forefathers I always kept holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - Commercial correspondence, Spanish - 1811 - 606 pages
...THE ENGLISH READER. MORAL, RELIGIOUS, &c. The Vhim of Mina, exhibiting a Picture of human Life, OX the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my fore-fathers, I ahvays kept holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high... | |
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I ascended the high hills of 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... 
