 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
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 438 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 Bag<!:,i. in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 278 pages
...with the first vision, which I have translated wordjbr 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... | |
 | Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...1. /~\Nthe fifth day of the moon, which, according to the ^J 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...t SECTION rr. ; The vision of Mirza ; exhibiting a picture of human life. 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 1 was here refreshing... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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... | |
 | Albert Picket - 1825 - 272 pages
...the ruin of hopeful children. Vision of Mirza. 1. ON the fifth day of the moon, which according to Custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after...offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the res! of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...Mirza.—ADDISON. 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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1828 - 324 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 hotyj after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1830 - 340 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,...and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the liigh hill of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. ' " We know nothing,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...begin with the first vision, which I have translated word tor wont, as follows : Ou the 5th day ot the ons; the exquisite melody of his versification, rising and falling like the tones of an Eolian myseii and offered up дпу morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass... | |
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