Travels, Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with CutsA. Millar in the Strand, and W. Sandby in Fleet-Street., 1757 - 513 páginas |
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Página ii
... some degree entitled to Your Royal Favour , and is therefore with all humility prefented to Your Sacred Majefty . Whilft I was engaged in this undertaking , it was a pleafing encouragement to confider , that my well - in- tended labours ...
... some degree entitled to Your Royal Favour , and is therefore with all humility prefented to Your Sacred Majefty . Whilft I was engaged in this undertaking , it was a pleafing encouragement to confider , that my well - in- tended labours ...
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... Some paragraphs likewise have been omitted or abridged in the work itself , viz . feveral of the geographical obfervations in the kingdoms of Algiers and Tunis ; particularly where neither ancient nor modern history were more ...
... Some paragraphs likewise have been omitted or abridged in the work itself , viz . feveral of the geographical obfervations in the kingdoms of Algiers and Tunis ; particularly where neither ancient nor modern history were more ...
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... some account of the work itself , I am to acquaint the reader , that the prickt ..... or double lines , which are traced out upon the maps , denote the places they pass through , to be laid down according to the obfervations of the ...
... some account of the work itself , I am to acquaint the reader , that the prickt ..... or double lines , which are traced out upon the maps , denote the places they pass through , to be laid down according to the obfervations of the ...
Página xvi
... some picces likewife of glass money , found in the ruins of fuch of their buildings , as were erected by their fultans , viz . Occ'ba and Ben Egib : For thefe , no less than thofe that were erected by their predeceffors the ...
... some picces likewife of glass money , found in the ruins of fuch of their buildings , as were erected by their fultans , viz . Occ'ba and Ben Egib : For thefe , no less than thofe that were erected by their predeceffors the ...
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... Some of the villages indeed of the province of Zaab and others like- wife , that have a more diftant fituation from Algiers , pay regularly their annual taxes , or at least give some tokens of fubmiffion to the Turks : but the other ...
... Some of the villages indeed of the province of Zaab and others like- wife , that have a more diftant fituation from Algiers , pay regularly their annual taxes , or at least give some tokens of fubmiffion to the Turks : but the other ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 408 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Página 208 - ... falling from it into the court. From the cloisters and galleries, we are conducted into large spacious chambers, of the same length with the court, but seldom or never communicating with one another. One of them frequently serves a whole family, particularly when a father indulges his married children to live with him, or when several persons join in the rent of the same house.
Página 338 - But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped...
Página 215 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Página 188 - A day or two after one of these broods was in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark and the young branches of such trees as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage. So justly have they been compared by the prophet to a great army ; who further observes, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.
Página 167 - Shekb, who conducted us to Mount Sinai, rode upon a camel of this kind, and would frequently divert us with a token of its great abilities.
Página 229 - None of these ladies," says Shaw, " take themselves to be completely dressed, till they have tinged the hair and edges of their eyelids with the powder of lead ore. Now, as this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through the eyelids over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the Prophet (Jer.
Página 188 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Página 215 - Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made...