Travels Through the Low Countries: Germany, Italy and France, with Curious Observations, Natural, Topographical, Moral, Physiological, & C. Also, A Catalogue of Plants, Found Spontaneously Growing in Those Parts, and Their Virtues, Volume 2 |
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... saw an ifland call'd Gallicia , which , altho it be but small , yet , becaufe of the high mountains , is feen afar off ; we left it about thirty leagues on one fide of us . This island is fubject to no body , wherefore a great many ...
... saw an ifland call'd Gallicia , which , altho it be but small , yet , becaufe of the high mountains , is feen afar off ; we left it about thirty leagues on one fide of us . This island is fubject to no body , wherefore a great many ...
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... saw no more than one small fhip early in the morning by Malta , which we took to be of Marseilles . So , God be praifed , we arrived very well , and without any hindrance at the fartheft point of Sicily , on the 11th day of September in ...
... saw no more than one small fhip early in the morning by Malta , which we took to be of Marseilles . So , God be praifed , we arrived very well , and without any hindrance at the fartheft point of Sicily , on the 11th day of September in ...
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... saw five caftles like high towers , diftant from one an other about a mufquet - fhot , where fome Janifaries are kept in garrifon , to cover the fhips in the harbour ( which is in some measure surrounded with rocks ) and to defend that ...
... saw five caftles like high towers , diftant from one an other about a mufquet - fhot , where fome Janifaries are kept in garrifon , to cover the fhips in the harbour ( which is in some measure surrounded with rocks ) and to defend that ...
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... saw one with a mug full of water , I defired him to give me fome to drink , which he was willing to do , and reached me the mug , I going to take it , trod by chance upon a fid- dle of one of the Turks and broke it : Although he had ...
... saw one with a mug full of water , I defired him to give me fome to drink , which he was willing to do , and reached me the mug , I going to take it , trod by chance upon a fid- dle of one of the Turks and broke it : Although he had ...
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... saw nothing but bushes on both fides of the river , wherein were se- veral wild beafts , but above all wild boars , till night , when we came in fight of a little village about two or three miles diftant upon the afcent on our left hand ...
... saw nothing but bushes on both fides of the river , wherein were se- veral wild beafts , but above all wild boars , till night , when we came in fight of a little village about two or three miles diftant upon the afcent on our left hand ...
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Page 320 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 254 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Page 162 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Page 315 - And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Page 320 - And fuddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly hoft praifing God, and faying, Glory to God in the higheft, and on earth peace, good will towards men...
Page 232 - For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord : they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire ; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Page 232 - Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
Page 320 - Fear not : for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which fhall be to all people. For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Chrift the Lord.
Page 220 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Page 399 - ... In the midft of their Noife and Fighting, he caufed a Bear to be let loofe in the fame Area ; the Dogs forgetting their Meat, and leaving off their fighting, ran all upon the Bear, ready to Prey upon them fingly, and at laft killed him. This Diverfion the Emperor gave his Bafla's, and left them to make the application.