A Summer's Cruise in the Waters of Greece, Turkey, and RussiaT. Fisher Unwin, 1887 - 416 pages |
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A Summer's Cruise in the Waters of Greece, Turkey and Russia Alfred Colbeck Aucun aperçu disponible - 2017 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Ægean ancient apostle appearance army Asia Asiatic Azov beautiful became beneath Black Sea blue boats Bosphorus building Caliphate called Cape Cape Malea Christian Church cliffs coast colour Constantinople Cossacks Crimea Cyclades Czar Dardanelles death deep Deli dome Eastern Empire English Europe eyes favour fire fleet fortress Galata gathered Gibraltar Golden Horn Government Grecian Greece Greeks hands harbour Hellespont hills holy honour human hundred Islam island Janizaries land live locust look Malea marble Marmora Mediterranean ment miles Mohammed Mohammedan Moscow mosque Mount Athos mountains Mycone never Nihilism Nihilists Ottoman palace passed patriarchate Paul priests Prophet religion religious Rock Rostoff round Russian sacred Samothracia Sea of Azov Sea of Marmora ship shore side sometimes Sophia Stamboul streets Sultan Syra Taganrog Tartars terrible thousand tion town Troas Turkish Turks Ulema vessel waters wind women worship
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Page 364 - Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. 22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
Page 64 - And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine?
Page 240 - 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 not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 128 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 244 - Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 373 - Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, 7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.
Page 378 - I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but taking my leave < of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
Page 380 - But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Page 5 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,— But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.