 | 1794 - 450 pages
...translated word for word as follows. ' On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after having...washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order^o pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 520 pages
...idea to a word of three syllables : " On the " 5th day of the moon, which, according to the cus" tom of my fore-fathers, I always keep holy, after " having washed myself, and offered up my morn" ing devotions, I ascended the high hill of " Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in... | |
 | English instructor - 1801 - 272 pages
...i ' i Qf , a picture of human life. On the fifth day of the moon, -which , according to the custom of my forefathers , I always keep holy , after having...washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions , I ascended the high hills ofBagdat, THE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR. 243 in order to pass the rest of the day... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...an idea to a word of three syllables. " On the 5th day of die moon, which, according to the custom of- my forefathers, I always keep holy, 'after having...washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. "... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...translated word for word, as follows : ' On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered np my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of B«gdnt, hi order" to pass the rest of the day... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805 - 908 pages
...13. to to a word of three syllables : " On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having...washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer." "... | |
 | Sydney Melmoth - 1805 - 368 pages
...FROM iN ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPT. Addison. f ON the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers I always '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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 622 pages
...an idea to a word of three syllables : " On the 5th day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my fore-fathers, I always keep holy, after having...washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer." We... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 322 pages
...translated word for word as follows : ' On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up ray morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 312 pages
...translated word for word as follows : " On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always 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.... | |
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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, 
