Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt and Barbary: During the Years 1806 and 1807 |
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... appeared under the title of a Demonstration of the Existence of God , are the only part of his writings that has hitherto been laid before the English reader . Les Martyrs , ou le Triomphe de la Religion Chretienne , which may be consi ...
... appeared under the title of a Demonstration of the Existence of God , are the only part of his writings that has hitherto been laid before the English reader . Les Martyrs , ou le Triomphe de la Religion Chretienne , which may be consi ...
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... appeared towards the conclusion of this century . Solinus describes several A. D. 176 . of the monuments of Greece . He has not copied Pliny the naturalist , so closely as he has thought fit to assert . Herodiau . Severus deprived ...
... appeared towards the conclusion of this century . Solinus describes several A. D. 176 . of the monuments of Greece . He has not copied Pliny the naturalist , so closely as he has thought fit to assert . Herodiau . Severus deprived ...
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... appearance of a very small town , so that Ovid might but too truly exclaim : What , besides the name is left of Pandionian Athens ! " O the deplorable vicissitudes of human things ! the tragic change of human power ! A city once ...
... appearance of a very small town , so that Ovid might but too truly exclaim : What , besides the name is left of Pandionian Athens ! " O the deplorable vicissitudes of human things ! the tragic change of human power ! A city once ...
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... appearance of the work of Martin Belon . Crusius , Belon had published , in 1555 , his Observations on various singular and remarkable things found in Greece . I have not quoted his work , because this learned botanist visited only the ...
... appearance of the work of Martin Belon . Crusius , Belon had published , in 1555 , his Observations on various singular and remarkable things found in Greece . I have not quoted his work , because this learned botanist visited only the ...
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... appeared . M. de Nointel , the French ambassador to the Porte , passed through Athens in 1674 ; he was accompanied by Galland , the learned orientalist . He had drawings made of the basso relievos of the Parthenon . The originals have ...
... appeared . M. de Nointel , the French ambassador to the Porte , passed through Athens in 1674 ; he was accompanied by Galland , the learned orientalist . He had drawings made of the basso relievos of the Parthenon . The originals have ...
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Page 120 - Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of •waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren...
Page 138 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 290 - And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Page 291 - For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Page 17 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Page 386 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 120 - In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the "sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 303 - AND it came to pass, that as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Page 387 - Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Page 387 - All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, " Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth...