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The Juvenile Mentor, Or Select Readings: Being American School Class Book No ...

Albert Picket - 1820 - 314 pages
...having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the top of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing...
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The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index. The Eight Volumes Comprised ...

1822 - 788 pages
...devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in mt • ditation ngers. The gentleman went on to observe, that it is from this Me a dream." Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not ftf...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 7-8

British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer....a dream.' Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd,...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 pages
...washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bag<!:,i. in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer....airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell in to a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another,...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 3

1824 - 278 pages
...having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer....dream. — Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd,...
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The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant ...

1824 - 348 pages
...having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer....surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream. nrit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered oil'' in the habit of a shepherd, with...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer....a dream." Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd,...
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The Juvenile Mentor; Or, Select Readings ...

Albert Picket - 1825 - 272 pages
...and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the res! of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the top of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As 1 was here refreshing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer....said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream." My heart melted away in secret raptures. I had been often told, that the rock before me ' was the haunt...
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