Memoir of the Rev. Pliny Fisk, etc. [With a portrait.]Crocker & Brewster, 1828 - 437 pages |
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Page ix
... convent - Ill temper of a curate -- Coptic convent -- Interview at the Danish consul's - Excitement created - Visit to Ro- setta - Mouth of the Nile - Passage to Cairo - Labors in that city - Visit to a Jewish synagogue - Descrip- tion ...
... convent - Ill temper of a curate -- Coptic convent -- Interview at the Danish consul's - Excitement created - Visit to Ro- setta - Mouth of the Nile - Passage to Cairo - Labors in that city - Visit to a Jewish synagogue - Descrip- tion ...
Page x
... Convents of the mountains- Infant baptism -- Missionary interview - Visit to Bzomer - Tripoli - Convent of Mar Antonius - Rug- gedness of the way - Statistical - Cedars of Lebanon -Mountain snow - Plain of Celo - Syria - Ruins X CONTENTS .
... Convents of the mountains- Infant baptism -- Missionary interview - Visit to Bzomer - Tripoli - Convent of Mar Antonius - Rug- gedness of the way - Statistical - Cedars of Lebanon -Mountain snow - Plain of Celo - Syria - Ruins X CONTENTS .
Page 189
... convent with a church in it , which I have visited . Only two priests reside in the convent , with a few domestics and attendants . One of them , with whom I conversed , shewed me their garden , church , baptistery and books , among ...
... convent with a church in it , which I have visited . Only two priests reside in the convent , with a few domestics and attendants . One of them , with whom I conversed , shewed me their garden , church , baptistery and books , among ...
Page 190
... very good . I endeavored also to shew him , that there is an important difference between big- otry and superstition , sometimes called Christianity , and Christianity itself . " The Greek convent I have visited very often , 190 MEMOIR OF.
... very good . I endeavored also to shew him , that there is an important difference between big- otry and superstition , sometimes called Christianity , and Christianity itself . " The Greek convent I have visited very often , 190 MEMOIR OF.
Page 191
Alvan BOND. " The Greek convent I have visited very often , particularly since interring there the remains of my beloved brother . It is situated , like the Coptic and Catholic convents , without the city , on the site of the ancient ...
Alvan BOND. " The Greek convent I have visited very often , particularly since interring there the remains of my beloved brother . It is situated , like the Coptic and Catholic convents , without the city , on the site of the ancient ...
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