Travels in the Three Great Empires of Austria, Russia, and Turkey, Volumen1R. Bentley, 1838 |
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Página 212 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap. Like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Página 203 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons where each lay, shall be grass, with reeds and rushes.
Página 1 - COMMON-PLACE TO THE BIBLE. 8vo. . .090 LOWTH'S (Bp.) LITERAL TRANSLATION OF ISAIAH. 8vo. . .070 LECTURES ON HEBREW POETRY. 8vo. . .080 LUTHER ON THE GALATIANS. 8vo. . . . , 0 10 6 NEWCOME'S MINOR PROPHETS, and Notes by BLAYNEY, &c.
Página 407 - God, became perfect man, with spirit, soul and body, one Person, one attribute, and one United Nature; God became man without change and without variation. * * * As there is no beginning of his Divinity, so there is no end of his Humanity, (for Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, to-day and forever). We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ dwelt upon the earth; after thirty years he came to baptism; the Father testified from above, "This is my Beloved Son...
Página 250 - Poland, the records of the police prove that no Karaite has been punished for an offence against the laws for four centuries...
Página 235 - ... few words. They have laid waste the country; cut down the trees; pulled down the houses; overthrown the sacred edifices of the natives, with all their public buildings; destroyed the public aqueducts; robbed the inhabitants; insulted the Tartars in their acts of public worship; torn up from the tombs the bodies of their ancestors, casting their...
Página 270 - Feodosia*, wilh whom we lodged at Balaclava, not only received me, but attended me with all the solicitude of a Samaritan. We arrived by moonlight ; his house was beautifully situated upon a rock near the harbour. The variety of different nations which are found in the Crimea, each living as if in a country of its own, practising its peculiar customs, and preserving its religious rites, is one of the circumstances which renders the peninsula interesting to a stranger. At Baktcheserai, Tartars and...
Página 154 - Vendee is now nearly drained ; and the lakes of Mecklenburg are filling up. All these three countries were inhabited by the Venedic nations, or the people who dwelt on fens ; the same tribes who first inhabited that part of England now called Cambridgeshire. The ancient Venedi appear to have been, like the Dutch of the present day, the beavers of the human race — all their settlements were upon the banks of small lakes, or by the sides of fens. What...
Página 199 - ... had afterwards numerous specimens in our progress through ancient Scythia. The fact that these regions were inundated in the thirteenth century by the Mongolian hordes, under Dchingis Khan, might naturally suggest the idea that these monuments are to be ascribed to that period ; but this hypothesis is overthrown by the mention made of their existence by Ammianus Marcellinus, a writer of the fourth century...
Página 372 - ... the slipper and not the turban is removed in token of respect. The Turks turn in their toes; they write from right to left; they mount on the right side of the horse; they follow their guests into a room, and precede them on leaving it ; the left hand is the place of...