A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad: With Various Remarks on the Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, and Literature of the Persians. To which is Added a History of Persia ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 - 329 Seiten |
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... pass several places , not above three feet broad , over deep and rocky precipices ; the roar of the rushing waters , and the stupendous heighth of the mountains , presented a scene terrific and sublime . The ascent was frequently so ...
... pass several places , not above three feet broad , over deep and rocky precipices ; the roar of the rushing waters , and the stupendous heighth of the mountains , presented a scene terrific and sublime . The ascent was frequently so ...
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... pass resorted to by robbers . This hill is notorious for thieves : indeed in a country infested with them , it would be sur- prising were it not , as a person well acquainted with the windings and paths of the mountains , might with ...
... pass resorted to by robbers . This hill is notorious for thieves : indeed in a country infested with them , it would be sur- prising were it not , as a person well acquainted with the windings and paths of the mountains , might with ...
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... pass part of your time in talking and smoking , and sometimes sleeping . The Persians de- light in using the bath , and have a saying , that " No man should visit a foreign country , where there is not a magistrate , a physician , and a ...
... pass part of your time in talking and smoking , and sometimes sleeping . The Persians de- light in using the bath , and have a saying , that " No man should visit a foreign country , where there is not a magistrate , a physician , and a ...
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... pass their time . About five or six Khans are not under the necessity of visiting the Duri Khoonu ; they are independent of the governor , and therefore only pay him ceremonious visits . But the remainder pass their days nearly as I ...
... pass their time . About five or six Khans are not under the necessity of visiting the Duri Khoonu ; they are independent of the governor , and therefore only pay him ceremonious visits . But the remainder pass their days nearly as I ...
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... pass an immediate judgment on a cause which must be either just or unjust ; little imagining that a preparatory study of many years is requisite to enable their counsel to form an opinion on the merits of their case . But although they ...
... pass an immediate judgment on a cause which must be either just or unjust ; little imagining that a preparatory study of many years is requisite to enable their counsel to form an opinion on the merits of their case . But although they ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 154 - Her own shall bless her: 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 254 - ... 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 234 - Linquenda tellus et domus et placens Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum Te praeter invisas cupressos Ulla brevem dominum sequetur.
Seite 175 - Amidst the white of new-fall'n snow. Let her lips persuasion wear, In silence elegantly fair ; As if the blushing rivals strove, Breathing and inviting love Below her chin be sure to deck With every grace her polish'd neck ; While all that's pretty, soft and sweet In the swelling bosom meet. The rest in purple garments veil ; Her body, not her shape, conceal : Enough, the lovely work is done, The breathing paint will speak anon." I am. Sir, Your humble servant.