On his return journey Bellefonds was murdered by the Bari. A hundred years later, all churches of any importance had similar indulgences; yet Englishmen were glad even then to earn a pardon of forty days by the laborious journey to the nearest cathedral, and by making an offering there on one of a few privileged feast-days. Half a day's journey beyond, at a point where two great wadis enter the Euphrates, on the Syrian side, stands Jabriya, an unidentified ruined town of Babylonian type, with walls of unbaked brick, instead of the stone heretofore encountered. His fourth journey in 1883-1885 was to Sining (the great trade centre of the Chinese borderland), and thence through northern Tibet (crossing the Altyn Tagh to Lop Nor), and by the Cherchen-Keriya trade route to Khotan. All Rights Reserved. From "Greek Heroes" to the Iliad was no day's journey, nor was it altogether pleasant. According to Moray's version of the letter, Mary was to try to poison Darnley in a house on the way between Glasgow and Edinburgh where he and she were to stop. Before her relatives could be brought to countenance his pretensions, Kepler was obliged to undertake a journey to Wurttemberg to obtain documentary evidence of the somewhat obscure nobility of his family, and it was thus not until the 27th of April 1597 that the marriage was celebrated. In 1915, aged 45, he returned to India. According to one favourite view, the journey was taken across the Sinaitic peninsula to Midian, the home of Jethro. Disappointed to have their journey paused already, he looked around then back at Ully. Despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, Prince Andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and alert than he had done the day before. Kelli's gaze grew haunted, and Lana couldn't imagine what she'd seen during her journey from Georgia to the small town of Randolph. Harris, Journey through Yemen (Edinburgh, 1893); J. This method has the advantage of equalizing the work of the engine throughout the journey, for when the load is greatest, with the full cage at the bottom and the whole length of rope out, the duty required in the first revolution of the engine is measured by the length of the smallest circumference; while the assistance derived from gravitating action of the descending cage in the same period is equal to the weight of the falling mass through a height corresponding to the length of the largest lap, and so on, the speed being increased as the weight diminishes, and vice versa. The ancient trade road to Canton, which connects Yun-nan Fu with Pai-se Fu, in Kwang-si, on the Canton West River, a land journey which occupies about twenty days. He wrote to Erasmus of a land flowing with milk and honey under the "divine" young king, and with Warham sent him £10 for journey money. In order to reply to accusations brought against them, or in order to be confirmed in their functions, they had to travel to the Golden Horde on the Volga or even to the camp of the grand khan in some distant part of Siberia, and the journey was considered so perilous that many of them, before setting out, made their last will and testament and wrote a parental admonition for the guidance of their children. The Catabanes produce frankincense and Hadramut myrrh, and there is a trade in these and other spices with merchants who make the journey from Aelana (Elath, on the Gulf of `Akaba) to Minaea in seventy days; the Gabaeans (the Gaba'an of the inscriptions, Pliny's Gebanitae) take forty days to go to Hadramut. You don't have to do anything just lie back and enjoy the, 239. Aristomenes retired to Ialysus in Rhodes, where Damagetus, his son-in-law, was king, and died there while planning a journey to Sardis and Ecbatana to seek aid from the Lydian and Median sovereigns (Pausanias iv. In 1818 he joined the Rev. 31.

(iii) The Journey from Galilee to Jerusalem, the Last Days, Passion and Resurrection, x. Nor were these precautions by any means superfluous, for not a few princes died on the journey or were condemned to death and executed for real or imaginary offences. [7][8] His contributions to the formation of Modern India also gave him the title - "Father of the Nation".MahātmāGandhiStudio photograph of Gandhi, 1931BornMohandas Karamchand Gandhi2 October 1869Porbandar, Kathiawar Agency, Bombay Presidency, British IndiaDied30 January 1948 (aged 78)New Delhi, IndiaCause of deathAssassination (gunshot wounds)MonumentsRaj Ghat,Gandhi SmritiOther namesMahatma Gandhi, Bapu ji, Gandhi ji, M. K. GandhiCitizenshipIndianAlma materUniversity College London[1]Inner TempleOccupationLawyerPoliticianActivistWriterYears active1893–1948EraBritish RajKnown forIndian Independence Movement,Nonviolent resistanceNotable workThe Story of My Experiments with TruthOfficePresident of the Indian National CongressTerm1924–1925Political partyIndian National CongressMovementIndian independence movementSpouse(s)Kasturba Gandhi​​(m. 1883; died 1944)​ChildrenHarilalManilalRamdasDevdasParentsKaramchand Gandhi (father)Putlibai Gandhi (mother)SignatureBorn and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, western India, Gandhi trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar at age 22 in June 1891. Throughout his journey he felt like a schoolboy on holiday. - It is one of the most interesting and important events in the church history of the 2nd century that Polycarp, shortly before his death, when he was considerably over eighty years old, undertook a journey to Rome in order to visit the bishop Anicetus. On the second journey (1874) he started from Ladak, crossing the vast and elevated plateau by the Tengri Nor and other great lakes, and again reaching Lhasa on the 18th of November. In1890-1891he made a tour in Greece, Egypt, India, Ceylon and Japan, where he narrowly escaped assassination at the hands of a Japanese fanatic. The first stage of the journey was to Beersheba, on the southern limits of Judah. Littledale's first journey ended at Peking; his second, in 1894-1895, took him almost within sight of the sacred walls of Lhasa, but he failed to pass inside. But the journey was abandoned, and after some months Erasmus found that even with occasional chances to read at Groenendael, the life of a court was hardly more favourable to study than that of Steyn. THE EXODUS, the name given to the journey (Gr. The results of his observations during his journey through England and Scotland appeared in a tract De l'Angleterre et des Anglais; and his conversations with distinguished men in those countries contributed to greater correctness in the exposition of principles in the third edition of the Traite, which appeared in 1817. Cunningham's Uganda and its Peoples (1905); and Winston Churchill's My African Journey (1908). Example Sentences for "journey" The superfast bullet train can make the journey between Tokyo and Kyoto in just over two hoursThey went on a two-week journey up the Amazon River to look at the plant life … 4. (London, 1836). Andrew Sparrman, the Swedish naturalist, when exploring in the Sneeuwberg in 1776, learned from the Hottentots that eight or ten days' journey north there was a large perennial stream, which he rightly concluded was the groote-rivier of Hop.