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 198
... Arabs who know nothing about Christianity or the Sabbath . They make a great deal of noise in managing the boat ; still I can enjoy myself in my little cabin , in which I sit on the floor , and spend the day in reading , writing , and ...
... Arabs who know nothing about Christianity or the Sabbath . They make a great deal of noise in managing the boat ; still I can enjoy myself in my little cabin , in which I sit on the floor , and spend the day in reading , writing , and ...
Page 209
... Arabic and Turkish , for publication . Connected with the Institution there is a printing establish- ment , having three presses , and founts of Roman , Arabic , and Greek types . " Mr. Fisk speaks of the peculiar feelings he had , when ...
... Arabic and Turkish , for publication . Connected with the Institution there is a printing establish- ment , having three presses , and founts of Roman , Arabic , and Greek types . " Mr. Fisk speaks of the peculiar feelings he had , when ...
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... Arabs took possession of the place . It was the theatre of some important trans- actions in the time of the Crusades in the eleventh century , and became subject to the Normans ; by whom the Arabs were expelled from the Island . It was ...
... Arabs took possession of the place . It was the theatre of some important trans- actions in the time of the Crusades in the eleventh century , and became subject to the Normans ; by whom the Arabs were expelled from the Island . It was ...
Page 216
... Arabic ; but the Arabic alphabet is totally unknown to the Maltese . In writing letters , in their own dialect , they always use the Roman character . I have seen no books in their language , except a popish catechism , the Gospel of ...
... Arabic ; but the Arabic alphabet is totally unknown to the Maltese . In writing letters , in their own dialect , they always use the Roman character . I have seen no books in their language , except a popish catechism , the Gospel of ...
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... Arabic master , who is a priest , has told me , ' We ought to believe blindly , whatever the church says . ' The pope some time since sent permission to relinquish a considerable number of the festivals , so far as to labor during the ...
... Arabic master , who is a priest , has told me , ' We ought to believe blindly , whatever the church says . ' The pope some time since sent permission to relinquish a considerable number of the festivals , so far as to labor during the ...
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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.