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Página 52 - Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Página 141 - Aleikoom" from thousands rang upon my ear. It was a most astonishing sight ; people from the roofs of the houses, the Nogay Tatars of Russia, the Cassacks and Girghese from the deserts, the Tatar from Yarkand or Chinese Tartary, the merchant of Cashmeer, the Serkerdeha or Grandees of the King on horseback, the Affghauns, the numerous water-carriers, stopped still and looked at me ; Jews with their little caps, the distinguishing badge of the Jews of Bokhara, the inhabitants of Khokand, politely smiling...
Página 119 - ... green ; and when I beheld this, I was struck with the utmost wonder at it, and the sight astonished me. I entered the fortifications in a state of terror, and with a wandering mind, and saw them to be of the same large extent as the city, and to comprise elevated pavilions, every one of these containing lofty chambers, and all of them constructed of gold and silver, and adorned with rubies and chrysolites and pearls and various-coloured jewels. The folding-doors of these pavilions were like those...
Página 119 - Yemen and the district of Seba, he chanced to arrive at a vast city encompassed by enormous fortifications, around the circuit of which were pavilions rising high into the sky. So when he approached it, he imagined that there must be inhabitants within it, of whom he might inquire for his camel ; and accordingly he advanced to it ; but on coming to it, he found that it was desolate, without any one to cheer its solitude. I alighted, says he, from my she-camel, and tied up her foot ; and then, composing...
Página 119 - from my she-camel, and tied up her foot ; and then, composing my mind, entered the city. On approaching the fortifications, I found that they had two enormous gates, the like of which, for size and height, have never been seen elsewhere in the world, set with a variety of jewels and jacinths, white and red, and yellow and green...
Página 141 - Dil Assa Khan turned deadly pale. Shouts of " Selaam Aleikoom" from thousands rang upon my ear. It was a most astonishing sight ; people from the roofs of the houses, the Nogay Tatars of Russia, the Cassacks and Girghese from the deserts, the Tatar from Yarkand or Chinese Tartary, the merchant of Cashmeer, the Serkerdeha or Grandees of the King on horseback, the Affghauns, the numerous water-carriers, stopped still and looked at me ; Jews with their little caps, the distinguishing badge of the Jews...
Página 119 - I saw not in it a created being of the sons of Adam ; and I almost died of terror. I then looked down from the summits of the lofty chambers and pavilions, and saw rivers running beneath them ; and in the great thoroughfare-streets of the city were fruitbearing trees and tall palm-trees. And the construction of the city was of alternate bricks of gold and silver; so I said within myself, No doubt this is the paradise promised in the world to come.
Página 141 - Bokhara, being determined never to lose sight of my position as mullah, on which alone my safety depended, I soon perceived. I also kept the Bible open in my hand ; I felt my power was in the Book, and that its might would sustain me. The uncommon character of these proceedings attracted crowds from Shahr Islam to Bokhara, all which was favourable to me, since, if I was doomed to death, it would be widely known, and the consequences might be even serious to the Ameer himself, of interfering with...