 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
 | Christian literature, American - 1850 - 790 pages
...MIRZA. Tran«lated from an Ancient Manuicript. N the fifth day of the moon, ( which, according to the 4 custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after...offered up my morning devotions, >. I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, . in order to pass the remainder of the i day in meditation and prayer. As I ; was... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 344 pages
...MIRZA. 1. 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 350 pages
...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 myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 788 pages
...ю a word of three syllables. ' On the 5ili day of ihe moon, which, according to the custom of ray forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed...pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.' " VVo know nothing, or next to nothing, of the •ubstance or structure of our souls, so cannot accouni... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 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...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... | |
 | 1854 - 630 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 pages
...according to the custom of my forefathers I always kept holy, after having washed 378 SPECTATOR. [No. 159. myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pages
...for them ; and shall begin with the first vision, which I have translated word for word as follows : myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1854 - 618 pages
...having washed 378 SPECTATOR. [No. li». myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended lU high hill 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 536 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... | |
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