A History of the Empire and People of Turkey and the War in the East ...: With a Narrative of the Late Rebellion and Butcheries in the Provinces : and the Origin and Progress of the Turko-Russian War; the Financial and Military Condition of the Two Countries; Biographies of Leading Officers, EtcA.H. Hovey & Company, 1878 - 502 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 214 - Saul. And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the Church, and taught much people: and the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
الصفحة 425 - HAVING therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
الصفحة 68 - And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
الصفحة 237 - And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus; and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven; and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
الصفحة 107 - No prophet bards, thy glittering courts among, Wake the full lyre, and swell the tide of song: But lawless force, and meagre want are there, And the quick-darting eye of restless fear, While cold oblivion mid thy ruins laid, Folds his dank wing beneath the ivy shade.
الصفحة 66 - For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river : and he had peace on all sides round about him.
الصفحة 239 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
الصفحة 453 - THEY rose to where their sovran eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage, arm'd by day and night Against the Turk; whose inroad nowhere scales Their headlong passes, but his footstep fails, And red with blood the Crescent reels from fight Before their dauntless hundreds, in prone flight By thousands down the crags and thro
الصفحة 209 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
الصفحة 417 - And, as the Cretan labyrinth of old, With wand'ring ways and many a winding fold, Involv'd the weary feet, without redress, In a round error, which denied recess ; So fought the Trojan boys in warlike play, Turn'd and return'd, and still a diff'rent way.