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Then ye win the lond of the Emir of the Afghauns, a great prince and a rich, and he hath in his Thresoure more crosses, and stars, and coats that captains wearen, than any other man on earth. For all they of Muscovy, and all Englishmen maken him gifts, and he keepeth the gifts, and he keepeth his own counsel.
Strabo, Geog., lib. i. Maurice, Indian Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 297. Div. Leg., vol. i. b. ii. § iv. p. 193, 10th Lond. edit. The hidden doctrines of the unity of the Deity and the immortality of the soul were taught originally in all the Mysteries, even those of Cupid and Bacchus. WARBURTON, apud Spence's Anecdotes, p. 309. Isoc. Paneg., p. 59. Apud Arrian. Dissert., lib. iii. c. xxi. Phaedo.
Sir William Allan, President of the Royal Scottish Academy from 1838: he died at Edinburgh in 1850. Beaumont and Fletcher, 8vo, Lond. 1788, vol. v. pp. 410-413,419-426. For notices of David Thomson, see Life, October 1822, and T. Craig Brown's History of Selkirkshire, 2 vols. 4to, Edin. 1886, vol. i. pp. 505, 507, and 519. Burns's Address to the Unco Guid.
See Sharpe's Letters, vol. i. pp. 303-5, and Ingram's Haunted Homes, Lond. 1884, vol. i. pp. 1-4. Redgauntlet, ch. xii. Pate-in-Peril at Dumfries. SCOTT'S Swift, vol. ix. p. 457. Amelia, Bk. 1. cap. xi. Sheridan's Play, Act II. Sc. 1. William Simson, R.S.A., landscape painter. He died in London, 1847. April 1. The proofs are not to be found. Then he writes letters and expects answers.
And aboute Jerusalem is the kyngdom of Surrye: and there besyde is the lond of Palestyne: and besyde it is Ascolone: and besyde that is the lond of Maritaine.
We shall follow our usual plan, selecting those travels which give the best idea of the country, at remote, intervening, and late periods. Martini Zeilleri, Itinerarium Germaniæ nov-antiquæ. Strasb. 1632. 4to. Christ. Dorrington's Reflections on a Journey through some Provinces of Germany in 1698. Lond. 1699. 8vo. The German Spy. By Thomas Ledyart. 1740. 8vo.
Fifty-six years after Prior had sung her "mad Grace's" praises, Walpole added those two lines to the Female Phaeton "To many a Kitty Love his car, will for a day engage, But Prior's Kitty, ever fair, obtained it for an age." She died at a great age in 1777. For her letter to George II. when forbid the Court, see Agar Ellis, Historical Inquiries, Lond. 1827, p. 40.
And from Babyloyne, where the Soudan dwellethe, to go right betwene the oryent and the Septemtryon, toward the grete Babyloyne, is 40 journeys to passen be desart. But it is not the grete Babiloyne, in the lond and in the powere of the seyd Soudan; but it is in the power and the lordschipe of Persye.
Translation from Renaudot, 8vo. Lond. 1733. See likewise Harris, I. 522. Original Account of India and China, by a Mahomedan Traveller of the Ninth Century.
This might make the credulous Britons think the predictions proceeded solely from the rock-deity. The voice on the outside was distinctly conveyed to the person in the aperture, as was several times tried. Arch. Soc. Ant. Lond. vol. viii. "The moving stones, or Logans, were known to the Phoenicians as well us the Britons.
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