 Arabia. 2. There is a certain bird called a phoenix. Of this there is never but one at a time, and that lives five hundred years. And when the time of its dissolution draws near, that it must die, it makes itself a nest of frankincense, and myrrh, and...  The genuine and apocryphal Gospels compared, a charge - Page 33by Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Mark Twain - Americans - 1869 - 720 pages
...genuine fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago. In it this account of the fabled phoenix occurs: " 1. Let us consider that wonderful type of the resurrection,...seen in the Eastern countries, that is to say, in Arubin. " 2. There is a certain bird culled a phœnix. Of this there U never but one at a time, and... | |
 | Mark Twain - American literature - 1869 - 692 pages
...genuine fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago. In it this account of the fabled phccnix occurs: " 1. Let us consider that wonderful type of the resurrection,...is seen in the Eastern countries, that is to say. iu Arabia. " 2. There is a certain bird called a phoenix. Of this there is never but one at a time,... | |
 | Mark Twain - Culture and tourism - 1870 - 700 pages
...genuine fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago. In it this account of the fabled phcenix occurs: " 1. Let us consider that wonderful type of the resurrection,...the Eastern countries, that is to say, in Arabia. " 2. There is a certain bird called a phoenix. Of this there is never but one at a time, and that lives... | |
 | Mark Twain - Culture and tourism - 1870 - 698 pages
...ago. In it this account of the fabled phu>nix occurs : " 1. Let us consider that wonderful type of tho resurrection, which is seen in the Eastern countries, that is to say, in Arabia. " 2. There is a certain bird called a phoenix. Of this- there is never but one at a time, and that... | |
 | John Jardine (LL.D.) - 1871 - 322 pages
...the fable of the phoenix. That the reader may be able to judge for himself, we give it verbatim:— ' Let us consider that wonderful type of the resurrection,...phoenix. Of this there is never but one at a time, 1 In chap. xxi. we have the expression, ' Our wives let us direct to do that which is good.' From which... | |
 | Mark Twain - Americans - 1871 - 394 pages
...genuine fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago. In it this account of the fabled phoenix occurs : 3 " 1. Let us consider that wonderful type of the resurrection,...the Eastern countries, that is to say, in Arabia. "2. There is a certain bird called a phoemx. Of this there is never but one at a time, and that lives... | |
 | Mark Twain - Europe - 1871 - 700 pages
...genuine fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago. In it this account of the fabled phoenix occurs : " i. Let us consider that wonderful type of the resurrection,...the Eastern countries, that is to say, in Arabia. u 2. There is a certain bird called a phcenix. Of this there is never but one at a time, and that lives... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1871 - 784 pages
...Corinthians. We will transcribe the XXV. Section of his First Letter, as a fit conclusion to our sketch : " Let us consider that wonderful type of the Resurrection, which is seen in the Eastern countries, ie, in Arabia. There is a certain bird called a ' Phoenix.' Of this there is never but one at a time,... | |
 | Mark Twain - Europe - 1875 - 698 pages
...genuine fourteen or fifteen him-, dred years ago. In it this account of the fabled phcenix occurs: " 1. Let us consider that wonderful type of the resurrection, which is seen in th« Eastern countries, that is to say, in Arabia. " 2. There is a certain bird called a phoenix. Of... | |
 | Mark Twain - Europe - 1879 - 696 pages
...genuine fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago. In it this account of the fabled phoenix occurs: "l. Let us consider that wonderful type of the resurrection,...the Eastern countries, that is to say, in Arabia. "2. There is a certain bird called a phoenix. Of this there is never but one at a time, and that lives... | |
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