An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile: Abridged from the Original WorkH.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row., 1814 - 373 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... give up the ftruggle , and refign to his deftiny . Before he did this , he funk to found if he could touch the ground , and found that he reached the fand with his feet , though the water was ftill rather deeper than his mouth . The ...
... give up the ftruggle , and refign to his deftiny . Before he did this , he funk to found if he could touch the ground , and found that he reached the fand with his feet , though the water was ftill rather deeper than his mouth . The ...
Pagina 15
... give this for an exact obferva- - tion ; yet , after all the care he could take , he only ap- prehended that 33 ° 58 ′ for the latitude of Palmyra , would be nearer the truth than any other . Again , that the distance from the coast in ...
... give this for an exact obferva- - tion ; yet , after all the care he could take , he only ap- prehended that 33 ° 58 ′ for the latitude of Palmyra , would be nearer the truth than any other . Again , that the distance from the coast in ...
Pagina 23
... give you eafe ; after which you may take a difh of ftrong coffee , and go to bed , or a glafs of fpirits , if you have any that are good . As Mr. Bruce's favour with the Bey was now efta- blifhed by frequent interviews , he thought of ...
... give you eafe ; after which you may take a difh of ftrong coffee , and go to bed , or a glafs of fpirits , if you have any that are good . As Mr. Bruce's favour with the Bey was now efta- blifhed by frequent interviews , he thought of ...
Pagina 25
... give his fon Mahomet in fecurity for his behaviour towards them . There was nothing fo much they defired as to be at some distance from Cairo on their voyage . In civility and extortion are always the confequence in this deteftable when ...
... give his fon Mahomet in fecurity for his behaviour towards them . There was nothing fo much they defired as to be at some distance from Cairo on their voyage . In civility and extortion are always the confequence in this deteftable when ...
Pagina 31
... give a very agreeable tafte and flavour to it , and make it the most refreshing drink in the world , whilft by imbib- ing the water , the canes become more juicy , and lose a part of their heavy , clammy fweetnefs , which would oc ...
... give a very agreeable tafte and flavour to it , and make it the most refreshing drink in the world , whilft by imbib- ing the water , the canes become more juicy , and lose a part of their heavy , clammy fweetnefs , which would oc ...
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An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia ... James Bruce,Samuel Shaw Volledige weergave - 1790 |
An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia ... James Bruce Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2018 |
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Pagina 218 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Pagina 369 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Pagina 320 - Dextrous, too, as the riders are, the elephant sometimes reaches them with his trunk, with which he dashes the horse against the ground, and then sets his feet upon him, till he tears him limb from limb with his proboscis ; *a great many hunters die this way.
Pagina 218 - It is infamy for a man to go to market to buy any thing. He cannot carry water or bake bread ; but he must wash the clothes belonging to both sexes, and, in this function, the women cannot help him.
Pagina 353 - The inside of her lip she had made black with antimony. Her ears reached down to her shoulders, and had the appearance of wings ; she had in each of them a large ring of gold, somewhat smaller than a man's little finger, and about five inches diameter.
Pagina 221 - In the mean time, those within are very much elevated; love lights all its fires, and every thing is permitted with absolute freedom. There is no...
Pagina 279 - I ran down the hill, towards the little island of green sods, which was about two hundred yards distant; the whole side of the hill was thick grown over with flowers, the large bulbous roots of which appearing above the surface of the ground, and their skins coming off on treading upon them, occasioned...
Pagina 208 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Pagina 201 - ... of the heavens. Other countries are not like this, though this was never so bad as it is now. These wretches here are enemies to strangers; if they saw you alone in your own parlour, their first thought would be how to murder you ; though they knew they were to get nothing by it, they would murder you for mere mischief.
Pagina 16 - Tyre seems to have been only a concealment of their knowledge of cochineal, as, had they depended upon the fish for their dye, if the whole city of Tyre applied to nothing else but fishing, they would not have coloured twenty yards of cloth in a year.