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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... caused him to be blinded , and his tongue to be cut out . He was , however , continued in his government of Khisht . Near the Surae , on the summit of a hill , is a fort called Furhad , formerly possessed by a banditti , who for a long ...
... caused him to be blinded , and his tongue to be cut out . He was , however , continued in his government of Khisht . Near the Surae , on the summit of a hill , is a fort called Furhad , formerly possessed by a banditti , who for a long ...
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... cause of the excessive verdure of this delightful spot . No one but the person who has travelled over dreary and barren heaths , until his eyes were weary of viewing the universal sameness of every object , can form a notion of the ...
... cause of the excessive verdure of this delightful spot . No one but the person who has travelled over dreary and barren heaths , until his eyes were weary of viewing the universal sameness of every object , can form a notion of the ...
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... caused his head to be struck off . It has a grand appear ance at night , when it is lighted up ; and as every trade has a separate quarter , you know where to resort to for what you may require . This custom ( common all over the East ) ...
... caused his head to be struck off . It has a grand appear ance at night , when it is lighted up ; and as every trade has a separate quarter , you know where to resort to for what you may require . This custom ( common all over the East ) ...
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... causes of complaint , and praying for redress . It is seldom that the king refuses to grant their request . They are the mediators for the poor people ; and despots have the sense to know , that oppression , carried beyond a certain ...
... causes of complaint , and praying for redress . It is seldom that the king refuses to grant their request . They are the mediators for the poor people ; and despots have the sense to know , that oppression , carried beyond a certain ...
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... cause which directs the actions and councils of a despot . The police of Sheeraz is admirably regulated ; and I hardly think it possible for the middling classes of people to harbour any design against the government , which should not ...
... cause which directs the actions and councils of a despot . The police of Sheeraz is admirably regulated ; and I hardly think it possible for the middling classes of people to harbour any design against the government , which should not ...
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Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 234 - Linquenda tellus et domus et placens Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum Te praeter invisas cupressos Ulla brevem dominum sequetur.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.