Three Years in Persia: With Travelling Adventures in Koordistan, Band 1Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... Scenes , & c . CHAPTER XIII . NIGHT TRAVEL IN PERSIA . 149 Arrival at Koramdereh , or " The Happy Valley " - Persian Robberies - Star - light Lucubrations - The " Subah Kauzib , " or false Dawn - Sultineah- Kush Kand - Persian Villages ...
... Scenes , & c . CHAPTER XIII . NIGHT TRAVEL IN PERSIA . 149 Arrival at Koramdereh , or " The Happy Valley " - Persian Robberies - Star - light Lucubrations - The " Subah Kauzib , " or false Dawn - Sultineah- Kush Kand - Persian Villages ...
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... scene with my friend the " hakeem bashi , " the penetrating eyes of the prince soon discovered him , and the " Isheagusi , " or master of the ceremonies , was im- mediately sent down to summon him to the royal presence ; and as he was ...
... scene with my friend the " hakeem bashi , " the penetrating eyes of the prince soon discovered him , and the " Isheagusi , " or master of the ceremonies , was im- mediately sent down to summon him to the royal presence ; and as he was ...
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... scene I shall never forget , when his many attendants and officers of the court , all with red turbans and superb dresses , came forward to offer their congratulations . There was seated around the prince , at a re- spectful distance ...
... scene I shall never forget , when his many attendants and officers of the court , all with red turbans and superb dresses , came forward to offer their congratulations . There was seated around the prince , at a re- spectful distance ...
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... scene , and gave me the best possible idea of court manners in this country . The poet laureat was then led up , reading at a most respectful distance a congratulatory ode on the prince , and the honours of the day . It is his office ...
... scene , and gave me the best possible idea of court manners in this country . The poet laureat was then led up , reading at a most respectful distance a congratulatory ode on the prince , and the honours of the day . It is his office ...
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... scene more irresistibly laughable . The guns were fired from the backs of camels . These are termed " zambrooks , " or camel swivels ; and there is one advantage in this sort of moving battery , that the patient animal kneels to accom ...
... scene more irresistibly laughable . The guns were fired from the backs of camels . These are termed " zambrooks , " or camel swivels ; and there is one advantage in this sort of moving battery , that the patient animal kneels to accom ...
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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...