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... music . The letter was 3 despatched , and Pharas sent the unhappy king the things which he desired . " I then often saw him strike the lute , for it was when my silver baptism ' was spread over the moun- 32 THE MOON'S HISTORIES .
... music . The letter was 3 despatched , and Pharas sent the unhappy king the things which he desired . " I then often saw him strike the lute , for it was when my silver baptism ' was spread over the moun- 32 THE MOON'S HISTORIES .
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... sent up into the firmament , ceased . " Hush ! hush ! ' cried several voices in a breath , and in terror - stricken tone . " Dead silence reigned , every eye was turned to- wards the mountain ; hand was clasped in hand , and mothers ...
... sent up into the firmament , ceased . " Hush ! hush ! ' cried several voices in a breath , and in terror - stricken tone . " Dead silence reigned , every eye was turned to- wards the mountain ; hand was clasped in hand , and mothers ...
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... sent something to their aid . It was generally a few assistant labourers who came in the name of the whole inhabitants to work at the build- ing ; some brought materials ; the rich families also subscribed ; and clothes , and food ...
... sent something to their aid . It was generally a few assistant labourers who came in the name of the whole inhabitants to work at the build- ing ; some brought materials ; the rich families also subscribed ; and clothes , and food ...
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... sent up to St. Petersburgh , and from thence to the west of Europe . I think it not improbable that you may , without knowing it , have eaten Russian honey . " CHAPTER X. THE MOON'S PEEP INTO THE THRONE - ROOM BEES IN THE OURALIAN ...
... sent up to St. Petersburgh , and from thence to the west of Europe . I think it not improbable that you may , without knowing it , have eaten Russian honey . " CHAPTER X. THE MOON'S PEEP INTO THE THRONE - ROOM BEES IN THE OURALIAN ...
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... sent trees or verdure , where nature has bestowed none ; but you will see my sketch will be worth looking at , and will well remind you , of a day not to be forgotten in the history of your lives , your first day in Aden . ' " The ...
... sent trees or verdure , where nature has bestowed none ; but you will see my sketch will be worth looking at , and will well remind you , of a day not to be forgotten in the history of your lives , your first day in Aden . ' " The ...
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Abyssinian Aden amid amongst ants archbishop ARCHBISHOP USSHER babes basaltic beams beautiful Bedouin bees British Captain Douglas Graham carried Cevennes colony courtiers cried dance delight Dezima distress Dutch Eaia earth Efat embassy empire EMPIRE OF JAPAN Ethiopia flowers friends Galla garden gazed Greenland ground habitations Hawash heard Heer Blomhoff hillock hills honey hope insect Japan kind king kingdom labours lady land length light listened lived looked majesty Major Harris matchlocks Mikado Moon continued MOON'S ACCOUNT mother moun mountain Nagasaki Nebuchadnezzar never night nurse observed Opperhoofd palace parents party PEEP perceived Pharas poor Pradines present river rock Sahela Selasse seen ship Shoa shore side silver Sir John Aubrey skin song soon sovereign spoke squirrels stood tains tell things thought throne Tiber took town trees versts village walls wept whilst wild wish woman wood young
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Page 61 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!
Page 59 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 172 - ... there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching Reformation, others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Page 172 - Behold now this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers working, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...
Page 171 - Ireland than for this ; saying to his daughter, and those that endeavoured to comfort him, ' I know that it is God's hand, and I must endeavour to bear it patiently ; though I have too much human frailty not to be extremely concerned; for I am touched in a very tender place, and he has thought fit to take from me at once all that I have been gathering together above these twenty years, and which I intended to publish for the advancement of learning, and the good of the church.
Page 81 - SIR — I am directed to inform you that the Honourable the Governor in Council, having formed a very high estimate of your talents and acquirements, and of the spirit of enterprise and decision, united with...
Page 137 - My children," said His Majesty in a sepulchral voice, as he extended his burning hand towards his European visiters — "behold, I am sore stricken. Last night they believed me dead, and the voice of mourning had arisen within the palace walls, but God hath spared me until now. Tell me the medicine for this disease.
Page 118 - ... shows the powerful effect of the presents on the courtly sensibilities. The speech was as follows: — "Forty years have rolled away since Asfa Woosen, on whose memory be peace! grandsire to our beloved monarch, saw in a dream that the red men were bringing into his kingdom, curious and beautiful commodities from countries beyond the great sea. The astrologers, on being commanded to give an interpretation thereof, predicted with one accord, that foreigners from the land of Egypt would come into...
Page 139 - I will release them,' returned the monarch, after a moment's debate within himself. 'By the Holy Eucharist I swear, and by the Church of the Holy Trinity in Koora Gadel, that if Sahela...
Page 113 - ... white calicoes, Indian piece goods, Indian prints, silks, and shawls, red cotton yarn, silk threads, beads, frankincense, copper wire, and zinc. A fortnight rolled away painfully in this detestable place, which was named Alio Amba, when a summons came from the monarch in these formal words : — " Tarry not by day, neither stay ye by night ; for the heart of the father longeth to see his children, and let him not be disappointed.