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Pagina 1
... town , and consequently was very much enlarged . In 1686 new fortifications were added to it under the auspices of the Grandmaster Gregorio Carafa , and finally it assumed its present state in the year 1690 under the reign of Adrian de ...
... town , and consequently was very much enlarged . In 1686 new fortifications were added to it under the auspices of the Grandmaster Gregorio Carafa , and finally it assumed its present state in the year 1690 under the reign of Adrian de ...
Pagina 2
... towns , and the Pasha was only delayed from making an attempt to storm the latter , from a desire that the Viceroy of Algiers would soon arrive with a reinforcement to share in the assault . Hassan , the leader of the Algerine troops ...
... towns , and the Pasha was only delayed from making an attempt to storm the latter , from a desire that the Viceroy of Algiers would soon arrive with a reinforcement to share in the assault . Hassan , the leader of the Algerine troops ...
Pagina 3
... towns with redoubled activity , and the contest waxed daily more bloody and desperate . For four successive days the Christians were engaged in incessant skir- mishes on the walls of La Sengle ; and at length , on the 2nd of August ...
... towns with redoubled activity , and the contest waxed daily more bloody and desperate . For four successive days the Christians were engaged in incessant skir- mishes on the walls of La Sengle ; and at length , on the 2nd of August ...
Pagina 4
... town were taken . A pre- vious cannonade had almost rased a part of the walls of St. Michael ; but it was in vain that the enemy endeavoured to break through the barriers which the besieged formed with their bodies . The assault was ...
... town were taken . A pre- vious cannonade had almost rased a part of the walls of St. Michael ; but it was in vain that the enemy endeavoured to break through the barriers which the besieged formed with their bodies . The assault was ...
Pagina 6
... town . No Roman antiquities have been found on the spot or in the neighbourhood . The place appears to have been first seiz- ed upon and converted into a military sta tion by the Moors , when they invaded Spain in the beginning of the ...
... town . No Roman antiquities have been found on the spot or in the neighbourhood . The place appears to have been first seiz- ed upon and converted into a military sta tion by the Moors , when they invaded Spain in the beginning of the ...
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Pagina 79 - And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Pagina 212 - Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2.
Pagina 164 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Pagina 168 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom : a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Pagina 260 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Pagina 48 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Pagina 39 - The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Pagina 240 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, — Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Pagina 87 - And when it was day, they knew not the land : but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
Pagina 130 - ROCK of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.