 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 to another, ' surely,' said...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2571809Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...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 my forefathers,...pass the rest of the day In meditation and prayer. " • This day ; the first Sunday of May ; a breezy, blue-skyed noon, some time about the beginning,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...with the first vision, which I have translated word for word as follows : " On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers,...offered up my morning 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... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...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... | |
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...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... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - Commercial correspondence, Spanish - 1811 - 606 pages
...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 hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the vest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...follows : " ON the fifth day of the moon, which 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 of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...kept holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my rooming 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 of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the... | |
 | 1809 - 448 pages
...kfter having washed myself, and oileied up my morning devotions, I ascended the high liill of Hagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.' " vVe know nothing, or next to nothing, of the suhstance or structure of our souls : so cannot account... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...AFTER DEATH. ON the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I aways keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning 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... | |
 | William Godwin - Gods, Greek - 1814 - 342 pages
...Addieon. On the fifth day of the moon, which 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 of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing... | |
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