A tour to Sheeraz by the rout of Kazroon & Feerozabad [&c.]. To which is added A history of Persia, from the death of Kureem Khan to the subversion of the Zund dynasty. [With] Appendix |
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... ordered in the highest style of Eastern luxury ; the Kuleean prepared with rose - water ; sweet coffee in golden cups ; in short , there was nothing wanting which could contribute to the shew or ornament of the entertainment . † About ...
... ordered in the highest style of Eastern luxury ; the Kuleean prepared with rose - water ; sweet coffee in golden cups ; in short , there was nothing wanting which could contribute to the shew or ornament of the entertainment . † About ...
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... order . may remark on the difference between the servants of Persia and India ; the former never hesitate to obey you , the latter will seldom perform any thing but their immediate duty . In India it is neces- sary to have two men to ...
... order . may remark on the difference between the servants of Persia and India ; the former never hesitate to obey you , the latter will seldom perform any thing but their immediate duty . In India it is neces- sary to have two men to ...
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... order , but its inhabitants have been at several times entirely extirpated . To day , at three p . m . the thermometer was 97. It would be impossible to describe our route , as our winding round the hills directed us to every point in ...
... order , but its inhabitants have been at several times entirely extirpated . To day , at three p . m . the thermometer was 97. It would be impossible to describe our route , as our winding round the hills directed us to every point in ...
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... order of Persians make a manifest difference between Ali , the Wuzeer , and son - in - law of the prophet , and Moohummud , the prophet of God . They maintain that he was the only lawful successor of the prophet ; but I never heard them ...
... order of Persians make a manifest difference between Ali , the Wuzeer , and son - in - law of the prophet , and Moohummud , the prophet of God . They maintain that he was the only lawful successor of the prophet ; but I never heard them ...
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... order , that they were always to wear shawl turbans , and robes of broad cloth . This he thought would be the cheapest dress they could wear , as the shawl would last their lives , and descend to their children , and the cloths would ...
... order , that they were always to wear shawl turbans , and robes of broad cloth . This he thought would be the cheapest dress they could wear , as the shawl would last their lives , and descend to their children , and the cloths would ...
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Página 155 - Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow; good grows with her. In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours. God shall be truly known; and those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honour, And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
Página 251 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 169 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 232 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground ; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Página 234 - Linquenda tellus et domus et placens Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum Te praeter invisas cupressos Ulla brevem dominum sequetur.
Página 233 - VII. Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis arboribusque comae ; mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas flumina praetereunt; Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet 5 ducere nuda choros, immortalia ne speres, monet annus et almum quae rapit hora diem, frigora mitescunt Zephyris, ver proterit aestas interitura, simul 10 pomifer autumnus fruges effuderit, et mox bruma recurrit iners.
Página 254 - ... be lunacy) but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending, that it has no essence independent of mental perception, that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms, that external appearances and sensations are illusory, and would vanish into nothing, if the divine energy, which alone sustains them, were suspended but for a moment...
Página 251 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk ; But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Página 154 - This royal infant, (heaven still move about her !) Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings, Which time shall bring to ripeness...
Página 18 - And level pavement. From the arched roof) Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.