 | Saʻdī - 1822 - 336 Seiten
...understands the Persian language?" They pointed to me. I asked what was the matter. He answered, " An old man, of a hundred and fifty years of age, is in the agonies of death, and says something in the Persian language which we do not comprehend. If you will have the goodness to... | |
 | Saʿdī, Edward Backhouse Eastwick - 1852 - 356 Seiten
...said, Is all well ? ' Of M. Semelet's MSS. ono roads STORY I. GULISTAN ; OR, ROSE GARDEN, replied, An old man, of a hundred and fifty years of age, is in the agonies of death, and says something to me in Persian, which is not intelligible to me. If thou wouldest be so kind as to... | |
 | Saʻdī, Francis Gladwin, James Ross - 1865 - 390 Seiten
...understands the Persian language ? " They pointed to me. I asked what was the matter. He answered : " An old man, of a hundred and fifty years of age, is in the agonies of death, and says something in the Persian language which we do not comprehend. If you will have the goodness to... | |
 | Saʻdī, Edward Backhouse Eastwick - 1880 - 280 Seiten
...among you who knows the Persian language?" They pointed to me. I said, " Is all well ? "2M He replied, "An old man, of a hundred and fifty years of age, is in the agonies of death, and says something to me in Persian, which is not intelligible to me. If thou wouldest be so kind as to... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 472 Seiten
...into life, they might read the history of love in this chapter. CHAPTER VI Of Imbecility and Old Age I IN the metropolitan mosque at Damascus I was engaged...bedside I heard him reciting: — "I said, I will enjoy myself for a few moments. Alas ! that my soul took the path of departure. Alas ! at the variegated... | |
 | Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Epiphanius Wilson - 1899 - 474 Seiten
...into life, they might read the history of love in this chapter. CHAPTER VI Of Imbecility and Old Age IN the metropolitan mosque at Damascus I was engaged...bedside I heard him reciting: — "I said, I will enjoy myself for a few moments. Alas ! that my soul took the path of departure. Alas ! at the variegated... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1917 - 434 Seiten
...into life, they might read the history of love in this chapter. CHAPTEE VI OF IMBECILITY AND OLD AGE In the metropolitan mosque at Damascus I was engaged...bedside I heard him reciting: " I said, I will enjoy myself for a few moments. Alas ! that my soul took the path of departure. Alas ! at the variegated... | |
 | 2000 - 276 Seiten
...among you who knows the Persian language?" They pointed to me. I said, "Is all well?" 00 He replied, "An old man, of a hundred and fifty years of age, is in the agonies of death, and says something to me in Persian, which is not intelligible to me. If thou wouldest be so kind as to... | |
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IN the metropolitan mosque at Damascus I was engaged in a disputation with some learned men, when a youth suddenly entered the door, and said : " Does any of you understand the Persian language ? " They directed him to me, and I answered : " It is true."... 