Fifteen Months' Pilgrimage Through Untrodden Tracts of Khuzistan and Persia, in a Journey from India to England, Volume 1 |
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Page 115 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Page 114 - A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shall thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Page 103 - Aire, and over every living thing that mooveth upon the Earth. And when the Sea had, as it were, rebelled against rebellious Man, so that all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, and all that was in the dry Land died, yet then did it all that time indure the yoke of Man, in that first of ships the Arke of Noah...
Page 113 - Of the two separate peaks, called Little and Great Ararat, which are separated by a chasm about seven miles in width, Sir Robert thus speaks ; — ' These inaccessible summits have never been trodden by the foot of man, since the days of Noah...
Page 59 - ... the antiquities of which she explored with unwearied zeal, and the historical dignity of which she has vindicated in her longest poem. From 1812 to 1815 inclusive, she passed much time at Windsor and its neighbourhood, and formed an intimate acquaintance with all the recesses of its forest. " She knew each lane, and every alley green, Dingle or bushy dell of those old woods, And every bosky bower from side to side.
Page 129 - What should it be, that thus their faith can bind? The power of Thought — the magic of the Mind! Linked with success, assumed and kept with skill, is That moulds another's weakness to its will; Wields with their hands, but, still to these unknown, Makes even their mightiest deeds appear his own.
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Page 58 - To use the language of an elegant modern writer,* " they knew the particular projection of a rock, and the tree of unusual appearance which admonished them to turn now to the right, and now * Godwin. ' • ' to the left; so they were nothing more at a loss than a town-bred man among the streets of the city in which he was born.
Page 115 - Here we have mountains specified as the place of its haven, not the mountain, as denoting a single summit. Therefore as the holy ship could not rest on both peaks, the...