Lares and Penates, Or, Cilicia and Its Governors: Being a Short Historical Account of that Province from the Earliest Times to the Present Day : Together with a Description of Some Household Gods of the Ancient Cilicians, Broken Up by Them on Their Conversion to Christianity, First Discovered and Brought to this Country by the Author

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Ingram, Cooke, and Company, 1853 - 394 страници
 

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Страница 27 - A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Страница 40 - Antioch; and his favorites durst not oppose his impatient desire of revenge. A slight fever, which was perhaps occasioned by the agitation of his spirits, was increased by the fatigues of the journey; and Constantius was obliged to halt at the little town of Mopsucrene, twelve miles...
Страница 12 - Israel, who did very wickedly: and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-gaber. Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, " Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the Lord hath broken thy works." And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
Страница 36 - And thou mightest have seen the sun, when it had risen, to decline from their cave towards the right hand, and when it went down, to leave them on the left hand : and they were in the spacious part of the cave.
Страница 235 - It is probable that no populations have ever been more abandoned than those of Oriental Greek cities under the Roman empire ; and of these cities Antioch was the greatest and the worst.
Страница 161 - Solymsean plain. Hippolochus survived: from him I came, The honour'd author of my birth and name; By his decree I sought the Trojan town...
Страница 36 - And their dog. stretched forth, his fore-legs in the mouth of the cave- if thou hadst come suddenly upon them, verily thou wouldest have turned thy back and fled from them, and thou wouldest have been filled with fear at the sight of them.
Страница 233 - Tis not merely The human being's Pride that peoples space With life and mystical predominance ; Since likewise for the stricken heart of Love This visible nature, and this common world, Is all too narrow: yea, a deeper import Lurks in the legend told my infant years Than lies upon that truth, we live to learn.
Страница 371 - ... of gratitude* were no less remarkable, than his warmth of heart and active benevolence, which he often exercised towards persons in distress, to the great prejudice of his limited means. No stronger example can easily be given of sensibility united with greatness of mind, than the feelings which he evinced on his death-bed, when his mother's name, and the failure of the great object of his travels, were the only subjects upon which he could not speak without hesitation. By the African Association...
Страница 371 - As a traveller, he possessed talents and acquirements, which were rendered doubly useful, by his qualities as a man. To the fortitude and ardour of mind, which had stimulated him to devote his life to the advancement of science, in the paths of geographical discovery, he joined a temper and prudence, well calculated to ensure his triumph over every difficulty. His liberality and high principles of honour, his admiration of those generous qualities in others, his detestation of injustice...

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