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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... kind of stone , which adds very little to the respectability of their appearance . Bushire is surrounded by a wall , with a few bastions , which might possibly be a safeguard against the predatory incursions of horse . There are three ...
... kind of stone , which adds very little to the respectability of their appearance . Bushire is surrounded by a wall , with a few bastions , which might possibly be a safeguard against the predatory incursions of horse . There are three ...
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... kind of cloth nearly equal to the China nankeen . I took notice of some castor - oil shrubs , and found , upon enquiry , that although its medicinal qualities were known , the oil was only used for lamps . As I brought bills of exchange ...
... kind of cloth nearly equal to the China nankeen . I took notice of some castor - oil shrubs , and found , upon enquiry , that although its medicinal qualities were known , the oil was only used for lamps . As I brought bills of exchange ...
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... kind of sherbet , supposed to promote digestion : And , indeed , they have need of this drink , for they seldom appear satisfied until they have emptied their trays . The conversation , both before and after supper , was general ; every ...
... kind of sherbet , supposed to promote digestion : And , indeed , they have need of this drink , for they seldom appear satisfied until they have emptied their trays . The conversation , both before and after supper , was general ; every ...
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... kind of present to the head person of the town or village you stop at . The most acceptable presents are shawls , muslins , Kincobs , pistols , watches , satins , velvets , chintz , knives , spying - glasses , & c . and your present ...
... kind of present to the head person of the town or village you stop at . The most acceptable presents are shawls , muslins , Kincobs , pistols , watches , satins , velvets , chintz , knives , spying - glasses , & c . and your present ...
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... kind of intercourse with the inferior classes of people ; it is a constant source of suspicion and distrust to those who are entrusted with the affairs of government , and who , of course , will leave no means untried to induce the ...
... kind of intercourse with the inferior classes of people ; it is a constant source of suspicion and distrust to those who are entrusted with the affairs of government , and who , of course , will leave no means untried to induce the ...
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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.