Memoir of the Rev. Pliny Fisk, A.M.: Late Missionary to PalestineAccount of P. Fisk's journeys in Middle East 1819-1825, visiting Smyrna, Chios, Asia Minor, Malta, Egypt, Jerusalem, Beirut. |
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Page 103
... hills of Africa , I think of millions there , the slaves of Mahommedan cruelty and superstition . When we sailed by Por- tugal , and Spain , and Sicily , and Sardinia , I thought of the multitudes who are there shrouded in papal ...
... hills of Africa , I think of millions there , the slaves of Mahommedan cruelty and superstition . When we sailed by Por- tugal , and Spain , and Sicily , and Sardinia , I thought of the multitudes who are there shrouded in papal ...
Page 127
... hill is a wall which includes several times as much . Within the castle are large subterranean reservoirs which used to serve for water and provisions . Most of the walls are evidently not very ancient , and are said to be the work of ...
... hill is a wall which includes several times as much . Within the castle are large subterranean reservoirs which used to serve for water and provisions . Most of the walls are evidently not very ancient , and are said to be the work of ...
Page 128
... at three we crossed the Caicus , and pursued our way along the southern bank through a fertile plain several miles wide , with verdant hills on the north and south , and At half several small villages at the foot of them 128 MEMOIR OF.
... at three we crossed the Caicus , and pursued our way along the southern bank through a fertile plain several miles wide , with verdant hills on the north and south , and At half several small villages at the foot of them 128 MEMOIR OF.
Page 131
... hill , and saw before us an extensive plain , through which the Hermus runs , and beyond it mount Tmolus extending to the east and west as far as the eye could reach . At the foot of this mountain stood Sardis , the great capital of the ...
... hill , and saw before us an extensive plain , through which the Hermus runs , and beyond it mount Tmolus extending to the east and west as far as the eye could reach . At the foot of this mountain stood Sardis , the great capital of the ...
Page 133
... hill to see the ruins of the old castle . Some of the remaining walls are very strong . Copied two inscriptions . " In the afternoon took leave of Sart , and went across the plain to see the tumuli or barrows on the opposite hill . In ...
... hill to see the ruins of the old castle . Some of the remaining walls are very strong . Copied two inscriptions . " In the afternoon took leave of Sart , and went across the plain to see the tumuli or barrows on the opposite hill . In ...
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Page 50 - Clouds and darkness are round about him : Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Page 330 - Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks ; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
Page 432 - I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Page 402 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 404 - 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 ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 309 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah : then' grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter : 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Page 260 - My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart : Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh forth at the windows, Shewing himself through the lattice.
Page 179 - THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours.
Page 231 - BROTHER, thou art gone before us ; and thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, and sorrow is unknown ; From the burden of the flesh, and from care and fear released, Where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.