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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... Force 81 CHAPTER XXII , On the Revenue 85 CHAPTER XXIII . Of the Government 90 CHAPTER XXIV . Of the King 96 CHAPTER XXV . Character of the Persians 101 CHAPTER XXVI . - 105 CHAPTER XXVII , Of the Hunting of the Persians 110 CHAPTER ...
... Force 81 CHAPTER XXII , On the Revenue 85 CHAPTER XXIII . Of the Government 90 CHAPTER XXIV . Of the King 96 CHAPTER XXV . Character of the Persians 101 CHAPTER XXVI . - 105 CHAPTER XXVII , Of the Hunting of the Persians 110 CHAPTER ...
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... force . At the period of his death , he is said to have left his son two millions of money , three thousand camels , and six hundred brood mares . This is doubtless an exaggerated account ; it evinces , however , the public opinion of ...
... force . At the period of his death , he is said to have left his son two millions of money , three thousand camels , and six hundred brood mares . This is doubtless an exaggerated account ; it evinces , however , the public opinion of ...
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... force to break an arm . They also amuse themselves with riding full speed , turning round on their saddles , and firing a small carbine they carry ; or in throwing the jureed on the ground , and catching it as it rebounds . The Persians ...
... force to break an arm . They also amuse themselves with riding full speed , turning round on their saddles , and firing a small carbine they carry ; or in throwing the jureed on the ground , and catching it as it rebounds . The Persians ...
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... Persia ; nor are the duties upon the manufactures of one country higher than upon those of another . This is a long established custom , see Tavernier's Account of the Kings . CHAPTER XXI . Of the Military Force . My Y [ 80 ]
... Persia ; nor are the duties upon the manufactures of one country higher than upon those of another . This is a long established custom , see Tavernier's Account of the Kings . CHAPTER XXI . Of the Military Force . My Y [ 80 ]
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Edward Scott Waring. CHAPTER XXI . Of the Military Force . My Y enquiries to ascertain the regular military force of the Persian empire proved very unsatisfactory ; indeed , I met with few who possessed any information on this subject ...
Edward Scott Waring. CHAPTER XXI . Of the Military Force . My Y enquiries to ascertain the regular military force of the Persian empire proved very unsatisfactory ; indeed , I met with few who possessed any information on this subject ...
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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.