Travels, Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with CutsA. Millar in the Strand, and W. Sandby in Fleet-Street., 1757 - 513 pages |
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... fhould be wanting to this fecond edition . Yet what has been thus omitted or abridged , has made room not only for the several additional discourses and differtations , that were contained in the supplement lately published to this book ...
... fhould be wanting to this fecond edition . Yet what has been thus omitted or abridged , has made room not only for the several additional discourses and differtations , that were contained in the supplement lately published to this book ...
Page vi
... fhould be the better preserved throughout the whole , the particular paragraphs have been fometimes tranfpofed , and the general chapters have been fubdivided into fections ; whilst the ftyle itself , which might fre- quently appear too ...
... fhould be the better preserved throughout the whole , the particular paragraphs have been fometimes tranfpofed , and the general chapters have been fubdivided into fections ; whilst the ftyle itself , which might fre- quently appear too ...
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... fhould not have seen so speedy an end of my fufferings . many upon But in Barbary , where the Arabian tribes are more under subjec- tion , I rarely was guarded by more than three fpabees and a fervant ; all of us well armed with guns ...
... fhould not have seen so speedy an end of my fufferings . many upon But in Barbary , where the Arabian tribes are more under subjec- tion , I rarely was guarded by more than three fpabees and a fervant ; all of us well armed with guns ...
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... , and fuch things as would keep fweet and wholesome during two months , the space commonly taken up in compleating this journey . Nor fhould our wooden bafon and copper copper pot be omitted ; the latter whereof was the PREFACE . xi.
... , and fuch things as would keep fweet and wholesome during two months , the space commonly taken up in compleating this journey . Nor fhould our wooden bafon and copper copper pot be omitted ; the latter whereof was the PREFACE . xi.
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... fhould remain fo many altars and tokens of Pagan idolatry and fuperftition , and fo very few croffes or other monuments of Chriflianity . Yet even this may perhaps be well enough accounted for , from that great hatred and contempt which ...
... fhould remain fo many altars and tokens of Pagan idolatry and fuperftition , and fo very few croffes or other monuments of Chriflianity . Yet even this may perhaps be well enough accounted for , from that great hatred and contempt which ...
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Page 408 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 208 - ... falling from it into the court. From the cloisters and galleries, we are conducted into large spacious chambers, of the same length with the court, but seldom or never communicating with one another. One of them frequently serves a whole family, particularly when a father indulges his married children to live with him, or when several persons join in the rent of the same house.
Page 338 - But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped...
Page 215 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 188 - A day or two after one of these broods was in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark and the young branches of such trees as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage. So justly have they been compared by the prophet to a great army ; who further observes, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.
Page 167 - Shekb, who conducted us to Mount Sinai, rode upon a camel of this kind, and would frequently divert us with a token of its great abilities.
Page 229 - None of these ladies," says Shaw, " take themselves to be completely dressed, till they have tinged the hair and edges of their eyelids with the powder of lead ore. Now, as this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through the eyelids over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the Prophet (Jer.
Page 188 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 215 - Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made...