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... Anapa , a fortress at the northern extremity of the Circassian coast , where , in exchange for merchan- dise brought from Constantinople and Anatolia , boys , girls , corn , wax , honey , hides , & c . are given . This primitive people ...
... Anapa , a fortress at the northern extremity of the Circassian coast , where , in exchange for merchan- dise brought from Constantinople and Anatolia , boys , girls , corn , wax , honey , hides , & c . are given . This primitive people ...
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... Anapa , or in the interior of the country , are the only literati . " The worship of the Circassians , according to one of the Russian interpolations , consists of the mechanical exercise of a number of Pagan and Christian ceremonies ...
... Anapa , or in the interior of the country , are the only literati . " The worship of the Circassians , according to one of the Russian interpolations , consists of the mechanical exercise of a number of Pagan and Christian ceremonies ...
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... Anapa Kalé , and the other places that were ceded at first to the Turks , were given solely for the purposes of commerce , and in so far as the rights herein concerned extended , they have been made over to Russia , but no more . So ...
... Anapa Kalé , and the other places that were ceded at first to the Turks , were given solely for the purposes of commerce , and in so far as the rights herein concerned extended , they have been made over to Russia , but no more . So ...
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... Anapa was the first post touched at , where they were received with a deafening salute from the Russian fort . But what of the natives ? " The heights around the fortress of Anapa being in possession of the hostile tribes of the ...
... Anapa was the first post touched at , where they were received with a deafening salute from the Russian fort . But what of the natives ? " The heights around the fortress of Anapa being in possession of the hostile tribes of the ...
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... Anapa , visit to , 518 Antrobus on Education , 464 Arnold's treason , notice of General , 397 Arabs of Algiers , acute sense of hearing of , 21 Arnett's Art of Bookbinding , 301 Arkansas , description of the , 224 Ardent spirits , the ...
... Anapa , visit to , 518 Antrobus on Education , 464 Arnold's treason , notice of General , 397 Arabs of Algiers , acute sense of hearing of , 21 Arnett's Art of Bookbinding , 301 Arkansas , description of the , 224 Ardent spirits , the ...
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Page 5 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life...
Page 307 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Page 8 - They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way ; They found no city to dwell in.
Page 11 - Know that this theory is false ; his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend ; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At...
Page 397 - At length, my dear Marquis," he wrote, I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac ; and under the shadow of my own vine and fig-tree, free from the bustle of a camp, and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments of which the soldier, who is ever in pursuit of fame, the statesman, whose watchful days and sleepless nights are spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if...
Page 7 - Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land!
Page 397 - I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all ; and this, my dear friend, being the order of my march, I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.