 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 to another, Surely, said I,...  Letters - Page 110by Robert Burns - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pages
...have as much fortitude or cunning as to dissemble or conceal my cowardice. ON SOME OF HIS FEELINGS. We know nothing, or next to nothing, of the substance...structure of our souls, so cannot account for those seeming caprices in them, that one should be particularly pleased with this thing, or struck with that,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 pages
...« On the 5th day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep hotyj after having washed myself, and offered up my morning...structure of our souls, so cannot account for those seeming caprices in them, that one should be particularly pleased with this thing, or struck with•... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...Mirza.—ADDISON. ON the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always kept holy, after having washed myself, 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 airing... | |
 | 1830 - 288 pages
...holy2, after having3 washed myself and ottered up 4 my morning devotions, I ascended tJie 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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1830 - 340 pages
...syllables : ' On the 5th day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the liigh hill of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. ' " We know nothing,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 pages
...syllables, " On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my...structure of our souls, so cannot account for those seeming caprices in them, that one should be particularly pleased with this thing, or struck with that,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...syllables : ' On the 5th day of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself, 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, or next... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 366 pages
...: " On the fifth ('.ay of the moon, which, according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself, 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." Here we may dismiss... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 pages
...ADDISON. ON the fifth day of the moon, which, according to th-: custom of my forefathers, I always kept holy, after having washed myself, 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 airing... | |
 | 1831 - 196 pages
...MIRZA. On the fifth day of the moon, which, according' to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hilla of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the .day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing... | |
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