Three Years in Persia: With Travelling Adventures in Koordistan, Volumen1Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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Página 144
... plunder you if they can . We were not long in descending to our village of Bahool , where we found our tents pitched in a pretty orchard , the servants having preceded us the day before . This wretched village was situated near what the ...
... plunder you if they can . We were not long in descending to our village of Bahool , where we found our tents pitched in a pretty orchard , the servants having preceded us the day before . This wretched village was situated near what the ...
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... plunder about to take place . Some of them yielded to this exaction , and were actually so protected ; whilst their less fortunate neighbours lost their all . A Jew stood out to make a very hard bargain ; they asked him one hundred ...
... plunder about to take place . Some of them yielded to this exaction , and were actually so protected ; whilst their less fortunate neighbours lost their all . A Jew stood out to make a very hard bargain ; they asked him one hundred ...
Página 191
... his Persian Sketches , tells of a certain Khan , who when he first viewed the wealth and extent of Calcutta , exclaimed , " What a fine place for plunder ! " 192 CHAPTER XV . THE " RAMAZAN . " It PERSIAN AVARICE . 191.
... his Persian Sketches , tells of a certain Khan , who when he first viewed the wealth and extent of Calcutta , exclaimed , " What a fine place for plunder ! " 192 CHAPTER XV . THE " RAMAZAN . " It PERSIAN AVARICE . 191.
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... cut off , sup- posed to have been for plunder . It was deposited in the Armenian church ; the remainder of the bodies were given over to the Armenians of the town , who interred them in their own receptacles for 222 MAHOMEDAN VENGEANCE .
... cut off , sup- posed to have been for plunder . It was deposited in the Armenian church ; the remainder of the bodies were given over to the Armenians of the town , who interred them in their own receptacles for 222 MAHOMEDAN VENGEANCE .
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... plunder is almost irresistible to the Persians . How far this mehmandar had been known to the villagers I cannot say , but they mounted the roofs of their houses well armed , and absolutely kept him at bay and all his suite , and the ...
... plunder is almost irresistible to the Persians . How far this mehmandar had been known to the villagers I cannot say , but they mounted the roofs of their houses well armed , and absolutely kept him at bay and all his suite , and the ...
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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...