An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile: Abridged from the Original WorkH.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row., 1814 - 373 sidor |
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... several other articles of which he was then in much want . Our traveller received from Paris and London much about the fame time , and as if it had been dictated by the fame perfon , nearly the fame answer , which was this , that every ...
... several other articles of which he was then in much want . Our traveller received from Paris and London much about the fame time , and as if it had been dictated by the fame perfon , nearly the fame answer , which was this , that every ...
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... several confiderable ruins of Grecian architecture all very much defaced . He paffed Latikea , and then came to Antioch , and afterwards to Aleppo . The fever and ague , which he had first caught in his cold bath at Bengazi , had re ...
... several confiderable ruins of Grecian architecture all very much defaced . He paffed Latikea , and then came to Antioch , and afterwards to Aleppo . The fever and ague , which he had first caught in his cold bath at Bengazi , had re ...
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... several fhades lighter than ours ) ; green of different fhades ; these are all the co- lours preferved . A little before our traveller came to Dendera , they faw the first crocodile , and afterwards hundreds , lying upon every inland ...
... several fhades lighter than ours ) ; green of different fhades ; these are all the co- lours preferved . A little before our traveller came to Dendera , they faw the first crocodile , and afterwards hundreds , lying upon every inland ...
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... several of the paffengers of part of their property . Mr. Bruce , however , found out , that it was not the ghoft , but fome of the failors who were the thieves , and , after this de- tection , the ghoft was never more heard of . On the ...
... several of the paffengers of part of their property . Mr. Bruce , however , found out , that it was not the ghoft , but fome of the failors who were the thieves , and , after this de- tection , the ghoft was never more heard of . On the ...
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... Several other inacceffible mountains ferved as natural fortreffes for this people , now grown very confiderable by frequent acceffions of ftrength from Pa- leftine and Arabia , whence the Jews had been expelled . Gideon and Judith were ...
... Several other inacceffible mountains ferved as natural fortreffes for this people , now grown very confiderable by frequent acceffions of ftrength from Pa- leftine and Arabia , whence the Jews had been expelled . Gideon and Judith were ...
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An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia ... James Bruce,Samuel Shaw Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1790 |
An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia ... James Bruce Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2018 |
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Sida 218 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Sida 369 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Sida 320 - Dextrous, too, as the riders are, the elephant sometimes reaches them with his trunk, with which he dashes the horse against the ground, and then sets his feet upon him, till he tears him limb from limb with his proboscis ; *a great many hunters die this way.
Sida 218 - It is infamy for a man to go to market to buy any thing. He cannot carry water or bake bread ; but he must wash the clothes belonging to both sexes, and, in this function, the women cannot help him.
Sida 353 - The inside of her lip she had made black with antimony. Her ears reached down to her shoulders, and had the appearance of wings ; she had in each of them a large ring of gold, somewhat smaller than a man's little finger, and about five inches diameter.
Sida 221 - In the mean time, those within are very much elevated; love lights all its fires, and every thing is permitted with absolute freedom. There is no...
Sida 279 - I ran down the hill, towards the little island of green sods, which was about two hundred yards distant; the whole side of the hill was thick grown over with flowers, the large bulbous roots of which appearing above the surface of the ground, and their skins coming off on treading upon them, occasioned...
Sida 208 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Sida 201 - ... of the heavens. Other countries are not like this, though this was never so bad as it is now. These wretches here are enemies to strangers; if they saw you alone in your own parlour, their first thought would be how to murder you ; though they knew they were to get nothing by it, they would murder you for mere mischief.
Sida 16 - Tyre seems to have been only a concealment of their knowledge of cochineal, as, had they depended upon the fish for their dye, if the whole city of Tyre applied to nothing else but fishing, they would not have coloured twenty yards of cloth in a year.