The Quarterly Review, Volume 238William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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Page 55
... truth somewhat of a misnomer , and is ever causing confusion with the older Azerbaijan , to wit , the north - western province of Persia , whose capital is Tabriz . Less misleading names would have CITIES OF TRANSCAUCASIA 55.
... truth somewhat of a misnomer , and is ever causing confusion with the older Azerbaijan , to wit , the north - western province of Persia , whose capital is Tabriz . Less misleading names would have CITIES OF TRANSCAUCASIA 55.
Page 56
... Persian Azerbaijan ; they speak a dialect of the Turkish language ; and , apart from a veneer of Russians in the cities and along the railways and main roads , the sporadic colonies of Persians , Armenians , and other races inevitable ...
... Persian Azerbaijan ; they speak a dialect of the Turkish language ; and , apart from a veneer of Russians in the cities and along the railways and main roads , the sporadic colonies of Persians , Armenians , and other races inevitable ...
Page 57
... Persia dried up , this little temple is now a forlorn and pathetic object , an extinct fane of an all but extinct faith . Until recent years a solitary priest was maintained in it by the Parsee community of Bombay , but he , too , has ...
... Persia dried up , this little temple is now a forlorn and pathetic object , an extinct fane of an all but extinct faith . Until recent years a solitary priest was maintained in it by the Parsee community of Bombay , but he , too , has ...
Page 60
... Persia in the reign of Nadir Shah . The treasury is an ugly modern excrescence which the bad taste of the 19th century has allowed to be added to , and to cloak , the east end of the church . It is entered by doors at either side of the ...
... Persia in the reign of Nadir Shah . The treasury is an ugly modern excrescence which the bad taste of the 19th century has allowed to be added to , and to cloak , the east end of the church . It is entered by doors at either side of the ...
Page 61
... Persians , as we may read in Morier , call him Khalif . In the days of the Armenian kingdom he was in a sense the national High Priest , and for a time enjoyed the dignity by right of hereditary descent from the Illumi- nator . After ...
... Persians , as we may read in Morier , call him Khalif . In the days of the Armenian kingdom he was in a sense the national High Priest , and for a time enjoyed the dignity by right of hereditary descent from the Illumi- nator . After ...
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