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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الصفحة 35
... despotic governments , however , it may be perhaps necessary to command attention . If , according to Montesquieu , the principle of despotic monarchies is fear , the Persian government is right in inspiring its subjects with a dread of ...
... despotic governments , however , it may be perhaps necessary to command attention . If , according to Montesquieu , the principle of despotic monarchies is fear , the Persian government is right in inspiring its subjects with a dread of ...
الصفحة 65
... despotic monarchy , this division of the city is of wonderful utility ; it allows a tyrant , who captures a place , to proceed on 、 a systematic plan of plunder ; and the inhabitants of the city suffer much less than those in similar ...
... despotic monarchy , this division of the city is of wonderful utility ; it allows a tyrant , who captures a place , to proceed on 、 a systematic plan of plunder ; and the inhabitants of the city suffer much less than those in similar ...
الصفحة 67
... despotic monarchy is infinitely superior to that in a free state . It is necessary that it should be so ; for suspicion is the prevailing cause which directs the actions and councils of a despot . The police of Sheeraz is admirably ...
... despotic monarchy is infinitely superior to that in a free state . It is necessary that it should be so ; for suspicion is the prevailing cause which directs the actions and councils of a despot . The police of Sheeraz is admirably ...
الصفحة 69
... despotic monarchies , which , they conceive , " like the source of a poisoned river , must necessarily infect all its branches ; but with what propriety I shall leave those to determine who are acquainted with other states , where ...
... despotic monarchies , which , they conceive , " like the source of a poisoned river , must necessarily infect all its branches ; but with what propriety I shall leave those to determine who are acquainted with other states , where ...
الصفحة 70
... despotic monarchy ; yet there is , I think , some reason to doubt the relations we have of the wretchedness and misery of those who live under and are ruled by the laws of an arbitrary government . That the Persians suffer greatly from ...
... despotic monarchy ; yet there is , I think , some reason to doubt the relations we have of the wretchedness and misery of those who live under and are ruled by the laws of an arbitrary government . That the Persians suffer greatly from ...
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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.