Three Years in Persia: With Travelling Adventures in Koordistan, Band 1Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... Character and Disgrace - Restored to the Royal Favour - Another Khan disgraced and restored - His Majesty's sportive Use of Power - Abul Hassan Khan - His History - Appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's -His Return to Persia ...
... Character and Disgrace - Restored to the Royal Favour - Another Khan disgraced and restored - His Majesty's sportive Use of Power - Abul Hassan Khan - His History - Appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's -His Return to Persia ...
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... character . There is a decent sobriety in Persian mobility that I have scarcely seen in any other ; none of your noisy ebullitions of a village wake , as in my own country ; none of the antic tricks of the mountebank , nor the low ...
... character . There is a decent sobriety in Persian mobility that I have scarcely seen in any other ; none of your noisy ebullitions of a village wake , as in my own country ; none of the antic tricks of the mountebank , nor the low ...
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... nature can imprint forms one of the requisites for office ; brutality , intrigue , and all the other dark shades of character , make him up a very Machiavel . 23 CHAPTER III . THE " MESHEDEES . " THE 22 THE TAUJ U DOULUT .
... nature can imprint forms one of the requisites for office ; brutality , intrigue , and all the other dark shades of character , make him up a very Machiavel . 23 CHAPTER III . THE " MESHEDEES . " THE 22 THE TAUJ U DOULUT .
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... character may be attributed to that system of intrigue by which greatness is attained and rank supported . The slave imbibes with his mother's milk cunning , treachery , and all the evil seeds of moral degeneracy ; and there can be no ...
... character may be attributed to that system of intrigue by which greatness is attained and rank supported . The slave imbibes with his mother's milk cunning , treachery , and all the evil seeds of moral degeneracy ; and there can be no ...
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... character , the rank seeds of his birth sprang up in all sorts of tyranny , oppression , and cruelty . He was haughty , overbearing , even to his superiors , and to a degree that they would no longer submit to . Basking in the sunshine ...
... character , the rank seeds of his birth sprang up in all sorts of tyranny , oppression , and cruelty . He was haughty , overbearing , even to his superiors , and to a degree that they would no longer submit to . Basking in the sunshine ...
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Seite 169 - And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Seite 144 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Seite 287 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them ? Is not the love of these deep in my heart With a pure passion?
Seite 18 - And speak unto the believing women, that they restrain their eyes, and preserve their modesty, and discover not their ornaments, except what necessarily appeareth thereof: and let them throw their veils over their bosoms, and not show their ornaments, unless to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husbands...
Seite 38 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Seite 134 - Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed.
Seite 320 - ... by performing their part of the primal covenant between them and the Creator; that nothing has a pure absolute existence but mind or spirit; that material substances, as the ignorant call them, are no more than gay pictures presented continually to our minds by the sempiternal artist ; that we must beware of attachment to such phantoms, and attach ourselves exclusively to God, who truly exists in us, as we exist solely in him ; that we retain, even in this forlorn state of separation from our...
Seite 24 - Therein are manifest signs : the place where Abraham stood; and whoever entereth therein, shall be safe. And it is a duty towards God, incumbent on those who are able to go thither, to visit this house : but whosoever disbelieveth, verily God needeth not the service of any creature.
Seite 320 - ... them, are no more than gay pictures presented continually to our minds by the sempiternal artist ; that we must beware of attachment to such phantoms, and attach ourselves exclusively to God, who truly exists in us, as we exist solely in him ; that we retain, even in this forlorn state of separation from our beloved, the idea of heavenly beauty, and the remembrance of our primeval vows ; that...