Narrative of a Residence in Algiers: Comprising a Geographical and Historical Account of the Regency; Biographical Sketches of the Dey and His Ministers; Anecdotes of the Late War; Observations on the Relations of the Barbary States with the Christian PowersH. Colburn, 1818 - 467 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... nature ; and although , like most others , they have a tendency to accumulate beyond all reasonable limits , that should not militate against the claims of any new candidate for public notice ; particularly if , as in this instance ...
... nature ; and although , like most others , they have a tendency to accumulate beyond all reasonable limits , that should not militate against the claims of any new candidate for public notice ; particularly if , as in this instance ...
Pagina ix
... nature than can possibly result from works of fiction , he must be satisfied with that intellectual reward which never fails to arise from an honest endeavour to serve mankind . Though it is evident that the author's principal object in ...
... nature than can possibly result from works of fiction , he must be satisfied with that intellectual reward which never fails to arise from an honest endeavour to serve mankind . Though it is evident that the author's principal object in ...
Pagina xx
... nature ; which , in other days , contained the intellec- tual spirit of Greece and Rome , filling the granaries of the latter ; which , united by commercial and political ties , is still abundantly capable of ministering to the wants ...
... nature ; which , in other days , contained the intellec- tual spirit of Greece and Rome , filling the granaries of the latter ; which , united by commercial and political ties , is still abundantly capable of ministering to the wants ...
Pagina xxii
... nature has been for many centuries doomed ineffectually to deplore . In the following pages the author proposes to describe what he has witnessed , and draw as faithful a picture as he can of the melancholy scenes and dreadful ...
... nature has been for many centuries doomed ineffectually to deplore . In the following pages the author proposes to describe what he has witnessed , and draw as faithful a picture as he can of the melancholy scenes and dreadful ...
Pagina xxvi
... Nature of the Algerine Government . - Its Character . - The Regency . - Divan.- Power of the Dey . - His Election , and Mode of conducting it . - Attributes and Prerogatives of the Dey . - Method of administering Justice . - Cause of ...
... Nature of the Algerine Government . - Its Character . - The Regency . - Divan.- Power of the Dey . - His Election , and Mode of conducting it . - Attributes and Prerogatives of the Dey . - Method of administering Justice . - Cause of ...
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Pagina 12 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Pagina 36 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Pagina 79 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Pagina 463 - Dono infelice di bellezza , ond' hai Funesta dote d'infiniti guai Che in fronte scritti per gran doglia porte; Deh fossi tu men bella , o almen più forte , Onde assai più ti paventasse , o assai T'amasse men chi del tuo bello ai rai Par che si strugga, e pur ti sfida a morte! Ch' or giù dall' Alpi io non vedrei torrenti Scender d...
Pagina 38 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone; When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity...
Pagina 96 - Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day! So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others
Pagina 137 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left : and there remained n6t any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field through all .the land of Egypt.
Pagina 393 - Sunday next a public thanksgiving be offered up to Almighty God for the signal interposition of his Divine Providence, during the conflict which took place on the 27th, between his Majesty's fleet and the ferocious enemies of mankind. " It is requested that this memorandum may be read to the ships
Pagina 105 - Hindostan: it will be sufficient for our present purpose to state that the...
Pagina 392 - To deliver also, to my flag, all money received by him for the redemption of slaves since the commencement of this year, at noon also to-morrow.