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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... India . The numerous and absurd errors of the press , which were observable in every page of it , have induced the author to print it afresh , and he trusts he has rendered his work more worthy of public approbation . The sub- ject of ...
... India . The numerous and absurd errors of the press , which were observable in every page of it , have induced the author to print it afresh , and he trusts he has rendered his work more worthy of public approbation . The sub- ject of ...
الصفحة vii
... Indian or Persian words : I must confess that I attach none . " I have in general adhered to a system which was formed by Dr. John Gilchrist for his Hindoostanee Dictionary ; but where words have received the sanction of universal usage ...
... Indian or Persian words : I must confess that I attach none . " I have in general adhered to a system which was formed by Dr. John Gilchrist for his Hindoostanee Dictionary ; but where words have received the sanction of universal usage ...
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... India Company . * * Dr. Fryer mentions , that he bought cloth in Persia cheaper than it is sold in England . Travels into Persia , p . 264. French cloth is also brought into Persia by way of Constantinople . Bushire is built of the ...
... India Company . * * Dr. Fryer mentions , that he bought cloth in Persia cheaper than it is sold in England . Travels into Persia , p . 264. French cloth is also brought into Persia by way of Constantinople . Bushire is built of the ...
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... India . * The vulgar error , of their being the original inha- bitants of India , vanished with those clouds of ignorance and prejudice which so shamefully obscured the writings of former times ; but if evidence were still wanting , the ...
... India . * The vulgar error , of their being the original inha- bitants of India , vanished with those clouds of ignorance and prejudice which so shamefully obscured the writings of former times ; but if evidence were still wanting , the ...
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... India . Etymologies are usually brought in support of systems , and ought not to be admitted upon questionable grounds . † + See Mr. Gilchrist's Improved System of Indian Orthography , where the barbarous errors of ignorant Europeans ...
... India . Etymologies are usually brought in support of systems , and ought not to be admitted upon questionable grounds . † + See Mr. Gilchrist's Improved System of Indian Orthography , where the barbarous errors of ignorant Europeans ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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?
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 234 - Linquenda tellus et domus et placens Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum Te praeter invisas cupressos Ulla brevem dominum sequetur.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.