 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
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...vIII. 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 hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...— " 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...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... | |
 | Erastus Darrow - 1850 - 104 pages
...struck my young fancy before I was capable of fixing an idea to a word of three syllables. We know next to nothing of the substance or structure of our souls, so cannot account for these seeming caprices in them, that we should be particularly pleased with this thing or struck with... | |
 | 1850 - 138 pages
...struck my young fancy before I was capable of fixing an idea to a word of three syllables. We know next to nothing of the substance or structure of our souls, so cannot account for these seeming caprices in them, that we should be particularly pleased with this thing or struck with... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...enthusiasm to Him, who, in the pompous language of the Hebrew bard, "walks on the wings of the wind." . . . 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,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1851 - 332 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 to... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1851 - 506 pages
...Mirza. On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the custom of jny forefathers, I always keep 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... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
..." On the fifth day of the moon, which, according to th« custom of my forefathers. I alwaj r s keep holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1852 - 336 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 to... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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 hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing... | |
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