A Voyage to East-India: Wherein Some Things are Taken Notice Of, in Our Passage Thither, But Many More in Our Abode There, Within that Rich and Most Spacious Empire of the Great Mogul: Mixt with Some Parallel Observations and Inferences Upon the Story, to Profit as Well as Delight the ReaderJ. Wilkie, 1777 - 511 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
againſt Almighty Ambaffador amongst beafts becauſe befides bleffed bodies called cauſe chief city Chrift Chriftians cloaths colour command creatures dead death deferved defire doth Eaft-India Eefa Engliſh fafe faid fame faſhion feem feen felves fent fervants ferve feven fhall fhew fhip fhould fides filk filver fince firft firſt flain fleſh fome fomething fometimes foul fpeak fpoken ftand ftill ftone ftory ftrange fuch fuffer fure further greateſt hath Heathens himſelf Hindoos horfes houfe houſe huſbands itſelf keep King laft lefs likewife live Lord Mahomet Mahometans moft Mogul moſt muft muſt never obferved perfons pleaſe poor Portugueſe prefent profefs provifions purpoſe reafon reft religion ſeem ſhall ſhe ſhip ſhort ſmall ſome ſpeak ſtand Surat Tamerlane thefe themſelves ther thereof theſe things thither thofe thoſe thou thouſand ufually unto uſe wherein whofe
Popular passages
Page 275 - Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
Page 123 - Egypt: and I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
Page 500 - And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads ; I am clean : from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Page 339 - Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Page 79 - As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
Page 510 - That many fhall come from the eaft and weft, and fhall fit down with Abraham, and Ifaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
Page 134 - Thou madeft him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands ; Thou haft put all things under his feet...
Page 68 - ... more fame in his generation. But his knowledge and high attainments in several languages made him not a little ignorant of himself; he being so covetous, so ambitious of praise that he would hear and endure more of it than he could in any measure deserve ; being like a ship that hath too much sail and too little ballast.
Page 119 - ... height, thick clouds of dust and sand. These dry showers most grievously annoy all those among whom they fall; enough to smite them all with a present blindness; filling their eyes, ears, nostrils, and mouths...
Page 20 - Yet all this contented him not, for never any seemed to be more weary of ill usage than he was of courtesies ; none ever more desirous to return home to his country than he ; for when he had learned a little of our language, he would daily lie upon the ground and cry very often thus in broken English : " Coree home go, Souldania go, home go.