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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... given by persons who were ignorant of the language of its inhabitants ; by others , who have been too intent upon their own concerns to interest themselves about the manners or usages of a remote kingdom ; and by some , whose prejudices ...
... given by persons who were ignorant of the language of its inhabitants ; by others , who have been too intent upon their own concerns to interest themselves about the manners or usages of a remote kingdom ; and by some , whose prejudices ...
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... given for this circumstance in the Gulf of Persia . The high and stupendous mountains which skirt the shore , both on the Arabian and Persian coast , effectually prevent the wind from extending to the sea ; so that , in fact , this gulf ...
... given for this circumstance in the Gulf of Persia . The high and stupendous mountains which skirt the shore , both on the Arabian and Persian coast , effectually prevent the wind from extending to the sea ; so that , in fact , this gulf ...
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... given , upon the authority of the priests of the Bood'h temples in Mysoor , of the introduction of the Bramin religion into that country . This information is more desireable than the fanciful hypotheses which have been framed of this ...
... given , upon the authority of the priests of the Bood'h temples in Mysoor , of the introduction of the Bramin religion into that country . This information is more desireable than the fanciful hypotheses which have been framed of this ...
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... given by Mihdee Ulee Khan to the principal inhabitants of Bushire ; and , as it is descriptive of their manners , I shall give some account of it . About eight o'clock we began to assemble , and as each person entered the room he was ...
... given by Mihdee Ulee Khan to the principal inhabitants of Bushire ; and , as it is descriptive of their manners , I shall give some account of it . About eight o'clock we began to assemble , and as each person entered the room he was ...
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... given to a person of superior rank to the entertainer ; rich cloths are spread before the door for him to walk upon , and which become the property of his servants ; the master of the house seats himself at a great distance from him ...
... given to a person of superior rank to the entertainer ; rich cloths are spread before the door for him to walk upon , and which become the property of his servants ; the master of the house seats himself at a great distance from him ...
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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.