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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... - Steps cut in the Rock - View of a Hill on Fire - fine Valley of Dusturjan - my Companion robbed - Rahdars - bad Road near Sheeraz - Arrival at Sheeraz b 15 254 CHAPTER VI . Reception of an honorary Dress - Description [ ix ]
... - Steps cut in the Rock - View of a Hill on Fire - fine Valley of Dusturjan - my Companion robbed - Rahdars - bad Road near Sheeraz - Arrival at Sheeraz b 15 254 CHAPTER VI . Reception of an honorary Dress - Description [ ix ]
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... arrived , on the 22d of May , at Bushire . This town is situate on a narrow neck of land , a very little above the level of the sea , and is frequently , from the rise of the tides , an island . The houses are mean , low , and small ...
... arrived , on the 22d of May , at Bushire . This town is situate on a narrow neck of land , a very little above the level of the sea , and is frequently , from the rise of the tides , an island . The houses are mean , low , and small ...
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... arrived at our Munzil- Gah ( halting place ) before day break , the distance being four Fursukh . I need hardly observe , that the Fursukh is the ancient Parasanga , and is , according to the Persians , twelve thousand paces , perhaps ...
... arrived at our Munzil- Gah ( halting place ) before day break , the distance being four Fursukh . I need hardly observe , that the Fursukh is the ancient Parasanga , and is , according to the Persians , twelve thousand paces , perhaps ...
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... arrived at a Surae ( three Fursukhs ) by three in the morning . Our road was as bad as the preceding night , but the distance being less , we did not expe- rience so much inconvenience . We again passed a small river , which I learn ...
... arrived at a Surae ( three Fursukhs ) by three in the morning . Our road was as bad as the preceding night , but the distance being less , we did not expe- rience so much inconvenience . We again passed a small river , which I learn ...
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... Arrival at Sheeraz . I was introduced to a most TO - DAY , June 13th , we halted . extraordinary person , a lineal descendant of Nadir Shah , who had been an independent governor of a district in Khorasan . He had experienced almost all ...
... Arrival at Sheeraz . I was introduced to a most TO - DAY , June 13th , we halted . extraordinary person , a lineal descendant of Nadir Shah , who had been an independent governor of a district in Khorasan . He had experienced almost all ...
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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.
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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.