 | 472 sayfa
...back on the convent, and forgetting the wretched superstitions of the monks, I looked abroad that day with the eyes of a disciple of Moses, who had followed...reading of the Pentateuch at home. How differently the Pentiiteuch here reads from the same worn old bible which one has handled for fiveand-twenty years,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1848 - 564 sayfa
...back on the convent, and forgetting the wretched superstitions of the monks, I looked abroad that day with the eyes of a disciple of Moses, who had followed...has handled for five-and-twenty years, I could not hare imagined. The light from Egypt and Arabia shining into it illuminates unthought-of places, and... | |
 | 1848 - 500 sayfa
...back on the convent, and forgetting the wretched superstitions of the monks, I looked abroad that day with the eyes of a disciple of Moses, who had followed...the same worn old Bible which one has handled for five-and -twenty years, I could not have imagined. The light from Egypt and Arabia shining into it... | |
 | 1849 - 588 sayfa
...of the writer, which she supposes to be new, whereas they are old doubts, often considered : — " How differently the Pentateuch here reads, from the same worn old Bible which one has bandied for five-and-twenty years, I could not have imagined. The light from Egypt and Ara!' bia shining... | |
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... action does not seem probable, there is no impediment to one's seeing Sinai as it was when Moses there halted his people. And I did so see Sinai, during the memorable Sunday we spent there. Turning my back on the convent, and forgetting the wretched... 