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... writer of the narrative , who was mistaken for the captain , determined to terminate his life by drowning himself ; but this the vigilance of the Arabs prevented him from executing . The unfortunate party consisted of M. Scheult , the ...
... writer of the narrative , who was mistaken for the captain , determined to terminate his life by drowning himself ; but this the vigilance of the Arabs prevented him from executing . The unfortunate party consisted of M. Scheult , the ...
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... writer of this article was once bunting in the confines of the des- ert in lower Suse , and suffered the horrible pains of thirst . He travelled with an Arab guide in quest of water , which they did not find for several hours . The Arab ...
... writer of this article was once bunting in the confines of the des- ert in lower Suse , and suffered the horrible pains of thirst . He travelled with an Arab guide in quest of water , which they did not find for several hours . The Arab ...
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... write to Mogador and implore succour . He appeared to doubt our promises , but finally he acceded to our proposition . A distance of 70 leagues only separated us from Mogador , but the communication was difficult . We were totally ...
... write to Mogador and implore succour . He appeared to doubt our promises , but finally he acceded to our proposition . A distance of 70 leagues only separated us from Mogador , but the communication was difficult . We were totally ...
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... writer of this article passed three months there most agreeably , and experienced from all of them the grea- test attention , and the most generous hospitality . The fanaticism of the Moors at that port is intolerable , and there is too ...
... writer of this article passed three months there most agreeably , and experienced from all of them the grea- test attention , and the most generous hospitality . The fanaticism of the Moors at that port is intolerable , and there is too ...
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... writer of this poem for displaying Christianity in so beautiful a light , as contrasted with the fairest forms of heathenism . It is something gained to the cause of truth , to have our associations and feelings engaged on the right ...
... writer of this poem for displaying Christianity in so beautiful a light , as contrasted with the fairest forms of heathenism . It is something gained to the cause of truth , to have our associations and feelings engaged on the right ...
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Page 172 - Cold on His cradle the dew-drops are shining ; Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall : Angels adore Him in slumber reclining, Maker, and Monarch, and Saviour of all.
Page 171 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid ! Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid...
Page 166 - For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD : to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the Name of the LORD.
Page 195 - And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence ; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them...
Page 379 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 45 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Page 96 - an admiral without conduct, an engineer without knowledge, an officer without resolution, and a man without veracity!
Page 215 - ONCE in the flight of ages past, There lived a man : — and who was he ? Mortal ! howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled thee.
Page 193 - Certainly the Americans owed and still owe as much acknowledgment to the financial operations of Robert Morris as to the negotiations of Benjamin Franklin or even the arms of George Washington.
Page 402 - I have seen him — nay, smile not — tenderly escorting a market-woman, whom he had encountered in a shower, exalting his umbrella over her poor basket of fruit, that it might receive no damage, with as much carefulness as if she had been a countess.