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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... Algiers . It was in this fituation , that I first collected materials for the following fheets ; and fo extenfive is Your Majefty's influence , that it procured me fafety and protection , even in countries remote and barba- rous . A ...
... Algiers . It was in this fituation , that I first collected materials for the following fheets ; and fo extenfive is Your Majefty's influence , that it procured me fafety and protection , even in countries remote and barba- rous . A ...
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... Algiers and Tunis ; particularly where neither ancient nor modern history were more immediately concerned ; and where the general scheme of these geographical enquiries would admit of it . And left the greater proficients in botanical ...
... Algiers and Tunis ; particularly where neither ancient nor modern history were more immediately concerned ; and where the general scheme of these geographical enquiries would admit of it . And left the greater proficients in botanical ...
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... Algiers to be 14o , and at Tunis 16 ° to the weft . Every evening therefore , as foon as we arrived at our connack ( for fo the Spabees call the tents , " the houses , or places where we put up ) I used to examine what latitude we were ...
... Algiers to be 14o , and at Tunis 16 ° to the weft . Every evening therefore , as foon as we arrived at our connack ( for fo the Spabees call the tents , " the houses , or places where we put up ) I used to examine what latitude we were ...
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... Algiers , by which that of other places is regulated , to be 3 ° 32 ′ 30 ′′ east of London , which in the maps is my firft meridian : according to which they are all of them laid down and projected . And here , to digrefs a little from ...
... Algiers , by which that of other places is regulated , to be 3 ° 32 ′ 30 ′′ east of London , which in the maps is my firft meridian : according to which they are all of them laid down and projected . And here , to digrefs a little from ...
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... Algiers and Tunis , an ordinary day's journey ( exclufive of the time taken up in making obfervations ) rarely exceeded eight or nine hours . Our conftant practice was , to rife at break of day , fet forward with the fun , and travel ...
... Algiers and Tunis , an ordinary day's journey ( exclufive of the time taken up in making obfervations ) rarely exceeded eight or nine hours . Our conftant practice was , to rife at break of day , fet forward with the fun , and travel ...
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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...