The Tales of the Genii: Or, The Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar, Volumen 2

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J. Wilkie, 1766
 

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Página 364 - ... who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high ; being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Página 364 - Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom alfo he made the worlds. Who being the brightnefs of his glory, and the exprefs image of his perfon...
Página 69 - Oassimir in the front of his army; and also to secure them from retreating by the support which his own troops were to give them in the rear. When Hobaddan was come within hearing, instead of throwing his arms on the ground, he unsheathed his scimitar, and thus spake to the troops before him : — ' Brethren, and countrymen, whom the...
Página 209 - Having gained his former situation by long struggle and labour, he ventured not to look down from the precipice he had escaped ; but, turning his eyes upward, he perceived he had yet a third part of the rock to climb ere he could reach the top. His perseverance in a short time prevailed, and Sadak stood on the utmost summit of the rock, from whence he looked over an extended lake to the burning mountain...
Página 200 - ... to surround that part of the island which was opposite to the burning torrent. This toilsome journey, though executed with the utmost difficulty and hazard, was yet as hopeless as the former ; the black rocks, which had been hollowed by the waves, hung in rude arch- work over their heads each step they took, and formed a continued barrier, without any interruption, except where the sea broke inward in deep eddies, and formed in the fissures of the rock the giddy whirlpool. Wearied with this fruitless...
Página 365 - For HE put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon His head; and He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
Página 68 - Hemjunah sank on the earth ; and the sultan Misnar ran to comfort her, declaring that he would march his whole army to recover her dominions from the rebel Hobaddan. " Horam," said the sultan, " let us be prudent as well as just ; therefore, while you march to the assistance of the injured subjects of Cassimir, and to restore that kingdom to its lawful prince, I will keep strict discipline and order in the provinces of my empire ; and I trust, in a short...
Página 3 - ... the confusion which prevailed, he was forced to make to the mountains, where his vizier still continued, though he had received the sultan's commands to the contrary. The troops of Ahubal pursued the sultan's scattered forces to the mountains, where the vizier's troops opened...
Página 5 - must the illfated Horam be numbered with the dead.' Horam heard the sentence without emotion : — ' My life,' said he, ' is in the hand of my lord, and he is welcome to the blood of his slave.
Página 135 - I wonder not at your suspicions; it is a hard task for the brave to dissemble, or for the generous warrior to descend to the dark deeds of a midnight robber. But let us hasten toward the seraglio. Yet, before we issue forth out of this thicket let me help you to dress yourself in the habit of a mute; the garments are hidden in the thicket behind, and I was coming to see whether they were safe against your arrival, when you seized me by the arm.

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