 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 pages
...fancy before I was capable of fixing an idea to a word of three syllables : " On the 5th day of tho moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers,...I always keep holy, after having washed myself and oflered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 pages
...struck my young 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 morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer." Are we a piece of machinery,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 pages
...struck my young fancy before I was capable ol fixing an idea to a word of three syllables : " On the 5th day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, 1 always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - 216 pages
...d'un honnete homme par sa gravite et par sa douceur. Telle est cette vision de Mirza.' H. TAINE. I. On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to...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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...them; and shall begin with the first vision, which I have translated word for word as follows : — 10 On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the...holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morn-15 ing devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...them; and shall begin with the first vision, which I have translated word for word as follows : — On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the...holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morn-15 ing devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 pages
...for them; and shall bcgia with the first Vision, which I have translated Word for Word as follows, 1 On the fifth Day of the Moon, which according to the...Forefathers I always keep holy, after having washed my self and offered up my Morning Devotions, I ascended the high Hills of Bagdat, in order to pass... | |
 | Sherman Williams - 1898 - 344 pages
...them, and shall begin with the first vision, which I have translated word for word, as follows: — On the fifth day of the moon,— which, according...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 fell into a profound... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 450 pages
...them ; and shall begin with the first vision, which I have translated word for word as follows : — ' ON the fifth day of the moon, which according to the...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... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 452 pages
...and shall begin with the first vision, which I have translated word for word as follows : — ft^le moon> which according to the custom of my forefathers...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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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 I,... 
