 I ascended the high hills of 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...  The Spectator, no. 1-314 - Страница 236по Joseph Addison - 1837Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 384 страници
...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...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 know nothing,... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 страници
...«truck 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...after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotiom, I ascended the high hill of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 страници
...and meditation. LESSON LXV. The Vision ofMirza, exhibiting a Picture of Human Life. — SPECTATOR. 1. ON the fifth day of the moon, which, according to...and 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. 2. As I was here... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 страници
...others, I met with one entitled, The Visions of Mirza, which I have read over with great pleasure. I , and j ot Ji»ed not one. of Job. It is the account...gives of his behaviour in the days of his prosperity, high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here... | |
 | Churchman - 1844 - 396 страници
...others I met with one entitled, " The Visions of Mirza," which I have read over with great pleasure. I shall begin with the first vision, which I have translated...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 I was here... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 страници
...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...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 know nothing,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 страници
...and are read with as much interest and profit now as they were a century ago.] The Vision of Mirza. On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to...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 I was here... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 страници
...piece that struck my young fancy before I was capable of fixing an idea to a word of three syllables. ' On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to...and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hill of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.' " We know nothing,... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 страници
...circumstances by which he is surrounded. — Cicero. THE VISION OF MIBZA, EXHIBITING A PICTUBE OF HUMAN LIFE. ON the fifth day of the moon, which, according to...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 I was here... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 страници
...and snow. All these are vanished, dropt away as the snow upon their heads." Spectator, No. 146. vIII. On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to...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 I was here... | |
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