...in the desert, a boiled turnip " would relish better than an ingot of virgin " silver." APOLOGUE 19. I HAD never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune,...stinted of food, a " boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl." APOLOGUE 20. A KING attended by a select retinue had, on a sporting excursion during the...

...mendicant, parched in the desert, a boiled turnip would relish better than an ingot of virgin silver." I had never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune,...stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl. XX A king, attended by a select retinue, had, on a sporting excursion during the winter,...

...kept wandering about, but could not find the path, and sank under his fatigue. A party of travelers arrived where his body lay ; they saw the dirams spread...submitted with patience to my want of shoes. — In the eyes of one satiated with meat a roast fowl is less esteemed at his table than a salad; but to him...

...mendicant, parched in the desert, a boiled turnip would relish better than an ingot of virgin silver." xrx I had never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune,...submitted with patience to my want of shoes. — In the eyes of one satiated with meat a roast fowl is less esteemed at his table than a salad; but to him...

...not wherewithal to shoe them. In this desponding state I entered the metropolitan mosque at Kufah, and there I beheld a man that had no feet. I offered...and submitted with patience to my want of shoes." Verdict: Condensed Sa'di. "SHOOT, if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country's flag."...