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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... whole system must inevitably be fallacious ; for etymologies on Eastern subjects are like the key- stone of an arch , upon whose stability and permanence depends the existence of a vast superstructure . Sir William Jones , who may ...
... whole system must inevitably be fallacious ; for etymologies on Eastern subjects are like the key- stone of an arch , upon whose stability and permanence depends the existence of a vast superstructure . Sir William Jones , who may ...
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... whole . Etymologies or conjectures , supported with learning , are like the bubbles we have seen school - boys blowing , gaudy and captivating to the sight , but fleeting and unsubstantial . . CHAPTER II . Governor of Bushire — his ...
... whole . Etymologies or conjectures , supported with learning , are like the bubbles we have seen school - boys blowing , gaudy and captivating to the sight , but fleeting and unsubstantial . . CHAPTER II . Governor of Bushire — his ...
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... much information ; and I suffered not a little in their estimation , when I told them I was unknown to the whole party . It cannot be expected that I should be informed of the motives for his embassy ; but if one of them was [ 12 ]
... much information ; and I suffered not a little in their estimation , when I told them I was unknown to the whole party . It cannot be expected that I should be informed of the motives for his embassy ; but if one of them was [ 12 ]
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... whole way danger- ously frightful . We had to 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 ...
... whole way danger- ously frightful . We had to 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 ...
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... whole caravan . Two Fursukhs from Kazroon are the ruins of a very large town called Dires . The marks of its former splendour and magnificence are still discoverable ; and the faint traces of mouldering walls and broken pillars , afford ...
... whole caravan . Two Fursukhs from Kazroon are the ruins of a very large town called Dires . The marks of its former splendour and magnificence are still discoverable ; and the faint traces of mouldering walls and broken pillars , afford ...
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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.