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Page 18
... fire blasted every field , consumed every house , destroyed every temple . The miserable inhabit- ants , flying from their flaming villages , in part were slaughtered ; others , without regard to sex , to age , to the respect of rank or ...
... fire blasted every field , consumed every house , destroyed every temple . The miserable inhabit- ants , flying from their flaming villages , in part were slaughtered ; others , without regard to sex , to age , to the respect of rank or ...
Page 25
... fire . They crossed over the first stream in safety ; but being a good deal scorched upon the island , they attempted the passage of the second branch ; in doing which , one of the guides , laden with torches and other things , fell ...
... fire . They crossed over the first stream in safety ; but being a good deal scorched upon the island , they attempted the passage of the second branch ; in doing which , one of the guides , laden with torches and other things , fell ...
Page 65
... fire than seventy infidels of any other religion . 6 " The Turks abhor the worship of images , yet think it decent to reverence departed saints , and to visit their tombs . They chiefly invoke the names of Mahomet and his four immediate ...
... fire than seventy infidels of any other religion . 6 " The Turks abhor the worship of images , yet think it decent to reverence departed saints , and to visit their tombs . They chiefly invoke the names of Mahomet and his four immediate ...
Page 68
... fire - drakes in the sky , And giddy flitter - mice with leather wings , And scaly beetles with their habergeons , That make a humming murmur as they fly . There in the stocks of trees white fays do dwell , And span - long elves that ...
... fire - drakes in the sky , And giddy flitter - mice with leather wings , And scaly beetles with their habergeons , That make a humming murmur as they fly . There in the stocks of trees white fays do dwell , And span - long elves that ...
Page 94
... fire : Will not that be suffi- cient ? But how can it be believed that Heaven is angry at my having children , when , to the little done by me towards it , God has been pleased to add his divine skill and admirable workmanship in the ...
... fire : Will not that be suffi- cient ? But how can it be believed that Heaven is angry at my having children , when , to the little done by me towards it , God has been pleased to add his divine skill and admirable workmanship in the ...
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