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Page 56
... feet of an image of the Blessed Virgin . I have elsewhere remarked how affecting is that reli- gion which ascribes the dominion over tempests , or rather the power of appeasing them , to a feeble woman . Sailors on shore may turn free ...
... feet of an image of the Blessed Virgin . I have elsewhere remarked how affecting is that reli- gion which ascribes the dominion over tempests , or rather the power of appeasing them , to a feeble woman . Sailors on shore may turn free ...
Page 77
... feet and an half broad , carry you over low and marshy spots . As there is not a single wheel carriage in this part of the Peloponnese , these causeways are sufficient for the asses of the peasants and the horses of the soldiery ...
... feet and an half broad , carry you over low and marshy spots . As there is not a single wheel carriage in this part of the Peloponnese , these causeways are sufficient for the asses of the peasants and the horses of the soldiery ...
Page 81
... feet , while three pages standing , held pastils of amber , silver nippers , and fire for lighting the pipe . My janissary remained at the door of the room . I advanced , saluted his excellency , by putting my hand on my heart ...
... feet , while three pages standing , held pastils of amber , silver nippers , and fire for lighting the pipe . My janissary remained at the door of the room . I advanced , saluted his excellency , by putting my hand on my heart ...
Page 87
... feet on the divan : he turned , he sat up , he sighed , he called his slaves , he sent them away again , and waited for day - light with impatience . Day - light came ( August 17 ) : the Tartar surround- ed by his attendants , some ...
... feet on the divan : he turned , he sat up , he sighed , he called his slaves , he sent them away again , and waited for day - light with impatience . Day - light came ( August 17 ) : the Tartar surround- ed by his attendants , some ...
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... feet lies the quarter called Katochorion , or the town below the castle . Beyond Katochorion , is Meso- chorion , middle town , which contains extensive gardens , and Turkish houses painted green and red . Here you perceive also ...
... feet lies the quarter called Katochorion , or the town below the castle . Beyond Katochorion , is Meso- chorion , middle town , which contains extensive gardens , and Turkish houses painted green and red . Here you perceive also ...
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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...