Three Years in Persia: With Travelling Adventures in Koordistan, Volumen1Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... Heads- Vengeance of the Shah - The Tyrant murdered - The King's Avarice District of Shemroun - Climate changes , & c . 245 CHAPTER XIX . TABREEZ . Arrival in the City - Its singular Appearance - Persian Delu- sions dissipated - The Mud ...
... Heads- Vengeance of the Shah - The Tyrant murdered - The King's Avarice District of Shemroun - Climate changes , & c . 245 CHAPTER XIX . TABREEZ . Arrival in the City - Its singular Appearance - Persian Delu- sions dissipated - The Mud ...
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... head he wore a scarlet turban of shawl , raised very high , of the shape and twice the height of the crown of a hat , and without ornaments . I understand that the use of jewels is limited to the sovereign . The bagpipe band struck up ...
... head he wore a scarlet turban of shawl , raised very high , of the shape and twice the height of the crown of a hat , and without ornaments . I understand that the use of jewels is limited to the sovereign . The bagpipe band struck up ...
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... head , there was to be seen the black The beautiful ruins of the mosque " Sultan Kazan " had one entire covering of human beings . Great numbers of women , also , were peep- ing through their " chadres , " but not a single nose cap ...
... head , there was to be seen the black The beautiful ruins of the mosque " Sultan Kazan " had one entire covering of human beings . Great numbers of women , also , were peep- ing through their " chadres , " but not a single nose cap ...
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... head " - " cut out his tongue , " or some such other summary mandate , which is always as summarily executed . The sovereign is supposed to witness these executions , and during my stay at Tehran , a culprit was suspended by the legs ...
... head " - " cut out his tongue , " or some such other summary mandate , which is always as summarily executed . The sovereign is supposed to witness these executions , and during my stay at Tehran , a culprit was suspended by the legs ...
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... the wand of enchantment , the scene was changed by the slow and majestic approach of Futtee Ali Shah , and , by one simul- taneous movement , every head was bowed with a low and graceful inclination ; the rams ' - THE EVENING SALAAM . 39.
... the wand of enchantment , the scene was changed by the slow and majestic approach of Futtee Ali Shah , and , by one simul- taneous movement , every head was bowed with a low and graceful inclination ; the rams ' - THE EVENING SALAAM . 39.
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Página 169 - And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Página 144 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Página 287 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them ? Is not the love of these deep in my heart With a pure passion?
Página 18 - And speak unto the believing women, that they restrain their eyes, and preserve their modesty, and discover not their ornaments, except what necessarily appeareth thereof: and let them throw their veils over their bosoms, and not show their ornaments, unless to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husbands...
Página 38 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Página 134 - Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed.
Página 320 - ... by performing their part of the primal covenant between them and the Creator; that nothing has a pure absolute existence but mind or spirit; that material substances, as the ignorant call them, are no more than gay pictures presented continually to our minds by the sempiternal artist ; that we must beware of attachment to such phantoms, and attach ourselves exclusively to God, who truly exists in us, as we exist solely in him ; that we retain, even in this forlorn state of separation from our...
Página 24 - Therein are manifest signs : the place where Abraham stood; and whoever entereth therein, shall be safe. And it is a duty towards God, incumbent on those who are able to go thither, to visit this house : but whosoever disbelieveth, verily God needeth not the service of any creature.
Página 320 - ... them, are no more than gay pictures presented continually to our minds by the sempiternal artist ; that we must beware of attachment to such phantoms, and attach ourselves exclusively to God, who truly exists in us, as we exist solely in him ; that we retain, even in this forlorn state of separation from our beloved, the idea of heavenly beauty, and the remembrance of our primeval vows ; that...