Armenia: a year at Erzeroom, and on the frontiers of Russia, Turkey and Persia |
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ancient appearance arms arrived beautiful Beyboort birds Black Sea brought Byzantine Caliph called caravans Christian Circassia clock Colonel Williams colour Commissioners Comneni Constantinople curious Czar dead distance divan door Edessa Emperor Emperor of Trebizond empire Enveri Effendi Erzeroom Etchmiazin Euphrates eyes feet Ferhad fire Greek hands head horses Hossein journey kawass Kerbela Khan Kiamili Pasha King kingdom of Armenia Koordish Koords land looked Mahometan manuscripts Mirza Tekee monastery Moses of Chorene Mount Ararat mountains mules never oda bashi party passed Patriarch Persian plain possession present Prince prison reign religion road rocks roof round Russian sent servants Shah Sheikh Thamir side snow soldiers stone Sultan Tabriz takterawan tezek thou throne tion tomb took Tortoom tortured towers town treaty treaty of Adrianople Trebizond tribes Turkey Turkish Turks valley village Wallachia walls wild Xenophon
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Seite 211 - For it is reported, that you cause the blind to see, the lame to walk, do both cleanse lepers, and cast out unclean spirits and devils, and restore them to health who have been long diseased, and raisest up the dead; 4.
Seite 127 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie! When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king?
Seite 221 - Church, than any other usage which is common to all denominations of Christians. They are, and always have been, of general and universal — that is, of catholic —use; they have never been used for many centuries for ornament or dress by the laity, having been considered as set apart to be used only by priests in the church during the celebration of the worship of Almighty Grod.
Seite 1 - Turkish vessels which skim over its waters every year, 500 are said to be wrecked as a matter of course. The wind sometimes will blow from all the four quarters of heaven within two hours' time, agitating the waters like a boiling caldron.
Seite 212 - As to that part of your letter which relates to my giving you a visit, I must inform you that I must fulfil all the ends of my mission in this country, and after that be received up again to him who sent me. 4 But after my ascension, I will send one of my disciples, who will cure your disease, and give life to you, and all that are with you.
Seite 68 - Lord! if thou refusest us thy succour, at least spare those who have not yet sinned, and turn thy wrath upon the heads of the guilty." Parched by a burning thirst, Hossein made a desperate effort to reach the banks of the Euphrates, but, when he stooped to drink, he was struck by an arrow in the mouth, and at the same moment one of his nephews, who came to embrace him for the last time, had his hand cut off by the blow of a sabre. Hossein, now the sole survivor of his party, threw himself into the...
Seite 221 - Here I will remark that the sacred vestures of the Christian Church are the same, with very insignificant modifications, among every denomination of Christians in the world ; that they have always been the same, and never were otherwise in any country, from the remotest times when we have any written accounts of them, or any mosaics, sculptures, or pictures to explain their forms. They are no more a Popish invention, or have anything more to do with the Roman Church, than any other usage which is...
Seite 13 - ... horses and mules perished in these two years is not known. The Turkish Government was totally ignorant of this deplorable state of affairs at Adrianople till some time afterwards, when the intelligence came too late. If the Turks had known what was going on, not one single Russian would have seen his native land again; even as it was, out of 120,000 men, not 6000 ever recrossed the Russian frontier alive.
Seite 95 - Gospel, they have no perceptible effect upon the mass of the people, among whim drunkenness, dishonesty, and immorality prevail almost unchecked, except by the fear of punishment in this world ; while in Turkey not one-tenth part of the crime exists which is annually committed in Christendom.
Seite 3 - Sinope,' writes Mr. Curzon in his work on Armenia, 'where the flat alluvial land stretches down to the sea-shore, there are forests of such timber as we have no idea of in these northern regions. Here there are miles of trees so high, and large, and straight, that they look like minarets in flower.