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Page viii
... Greek College - Studies and researches - Return to Smyrna - Tour in Asia Minor - Visit to Haivali- Pergamos - Thyatira - Sardis - Philadelphia - Sick- ness of Mr. Parsons - Ephesus , 108-140 CHAPTER VI . From the time Mr. Parsons left ...
... Greek College - Studies and researches - Return to Smyrna - Tour in Asia Minor - Visit to Haivali- Pergamos - Thyatira - Sardis - Philadelphia - Sick- ness of Mr. Parsons - Ephesus , 108-140 CHAPTER VI . From the time Mr. Parsons left ...
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... Greek Christians - Conversation with a Jewish physician- Jewish school - master - A Jew of Salonica - Passage up the Nile - Visit to Cairo - The pyramids - Mr . Temple's arrival at Malta noticed , ..... 168-200 CHAPTER VIII . Residence ...
... Greek Christians - Conversation with a Jewish physician- Jewish school - master - A Jew of Salonica - Passage up the Nile - Visit to Cairo - The pyramids - Mr . Temple's arrival at Malta noticed , ..... 168-200 CHAPTER VIII . Residence ...
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... Greek ecclesiastics - Letter from the patriarch of Antioch - Syrian baptism - Turkish effendi - Com- mencement of regular Protestant worship - Arrest and imprisonment - Interviews with the Turkish governor and judge - Sale of Scriptures ...
... Greek ecclesiastics - Letter from the patriarch of Antioch - Syrian baptism - Turkish effendi - Com- mencement of regular Protestant worship - Arrest and imprisonment - Interviews with the Turkish governor and judge - Sale of Scriptures ...
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... Greek , and Hebrew , as will enable you not only to read them with familiarity , but to speak and write them , would be of very great utility in this country , and I presume , in any part of Asia ; probably in any part of the world ...
... Greek , and Hebrew , as will enable you not only to read them with familiarity , but to speak and write them , would be of very great utility in this country , and I presume , in any part of Asia ; probably in any part of the world ...
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... ringing of catholic bells in town , and the shouts , yells , murmurs , and gabbling of Turks , Greeks , and almost every kind of people , in every direction , and in their different languages , have made this a noisy 106 MEMOIR OF.
... ringing of catholic bells in town , and the shouts , yells , murmurs , and gabbling of Turks , Greeks , and almost every kind of people , in every direction , and in their different languages , have made this a noisy 106 MEMOIR OF.
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Page 50 - Clouds and darkness are round about him : Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
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Page 432 - I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Page 402 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
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Page 309 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah : then' grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter : 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Page 260 - My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart : Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh forth at the windows, Shewing himself through the lattice.
Page 179 - THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours.
Page 231 - BROTHER, thou art gone before us ; and thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, and sorrow is unknown ; From the burden of the flesh, and from care and fear released, Where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.