Memoir of the Rev. Pliny Fisk, A.M.: Late Missionary to PalestineAccount of P. Fisk's journeys in Middle East 1819-1825, visiting Smyrna, Chios, Asia Minor, Malta, Egypt, Jerusalem, Beirut. |
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Page iv
... Turkish empire . These communications made a strong impression on the minds of some , which led them to feel , that the time had ar- rived for the American church to act , and without delay take possession of the Holy Land . The subject ...
... Turkish empire . These communications made a strong impression on the minds of some , which led them to feel , that the time had ar- rived for the American church to act , and without delay take possession of the Holy Land . The subject ...
Page viii
... Turkish barbarities -- Alarming rumors- The plague - Reflections - Removal to Sedicui- Intelligence from Mr. Parsons - Discussion with an intelligent Catholic - Historical Sketch of Smyrna , 140-167 CHAPTER VII . Passage from Smyrna to ...
... Turkish barbarities -- Alarming rumors- The plague - Reflections - Removal to Sedicui- Intelligence from Mr. Parsons - Discussion with an intelligent Catholic - Historical Sketch of Smyrna , 140-167 CHAPTER VII . Passage from Smyrna to ...
Page xi
... Turkish effendi - Com- mencement of regular Protestant worship - Arrest and imprisonment - Interviews with the Turkish governor and judge - Sale of Scriptures - Sudden arrival of a new governor - Result of the difficulties experienced ...
... Turkish effendi - Com- mencement of regular Protestant worship - Arrest and imprisonment - Interviews with the Turkish governor and judge - Sale of Scriptures - Sudden arrival of a new governor - Result of the difficulties experienced ...
Page 113
... Turkish women are seldom seen abroad , and never except with their faces completely covered . The Armenian women have their faces nearly or quite all veiled ; but the Greek women seem quite willing to have their faces seen . Their dress ...
... Turkish women are seldom seen abroad , and never except with their faces completely covered . The Armenian women have their faces nearly or quite all veiled ; but the Greek women seem quite willing to have their faces seen . Their dress ...
Page 117
... Turkish . When we travel , he knows the country , and acts as our guide . He is our interpreter , and steward . I am now learning him to read Italian . " Our living here costs us generally about 60 or 70 cents a day . We find here no ...
... Turkish . When we travel , he knows the country , and acts as our guide . He is our interpreter , and steward . I am now learning him to read Italian . " Our living here costs us generally about 60 or 70 cents a day . We find here no ...
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Page 50 - Clouds and darkness are round about him : Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Page 330 - Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks ; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
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...
Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 404 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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.