A Journey Through the Caucasus and the Interior of PersiaSmith, Elder, 1872 - 336 páginas |
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A Journey Through the Caucasus and the Interior of Persia Augustus Henry Mounsey Vista completa - 1872 |
A Journey Through the Caucasus and the Interior of Persia Augustus Henry Mounsey Vista completa - 1872 |
A Journey Through the Caucasus and the Interior of Persia Augustus Henry Mounsey Vista completa - 1872 |
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Abbas amidst amongst Armenian arrived Astrabad bas-reliefs bazaars beautiful blue breakfast Bushire called capital caravan caravansary carpet Caspian Caucasus centre chapars Chehel colours court covered descended desert Eeliauts Elburz English entered Etchmiadzin European favourite feet high ferrashes four friends gallop garden governor green Gregory the Illuminator ground Guebres Hamadan hands hills horses Hossein inhabitants Ispahan journey jubbahs Julfa Kashan Kasvin Kazeroon Kermanshah king latter Legation look marble miles Mingrelia Minister mollahs morning mosque mountains mounted mules night once palace Paradise Parsees pass Persepolis Persian plain post-house Poti province quarters reached Rhipsime ride river road rock rode ruins Russian Sassanian scenery sculptured seen servants Shah Shah's Shiraz Shireen side sight snow soon stone stream surrounded Tabreez Tehran throne Tiflis tomb town traveller traversed tribe valley Veglio versts village walls whilst wild Zoroaster
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Página 220 - There's a bower of roses by BENDEMEER'S' stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Página 306 - Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
Página 155 - But, as with a feeble rider the horse is ill managed, so with a feeble horse the rider is but ill accommodated, care ought to be taken that both are kept in order ; so, in a spiritual sense, the soul and body must be kept in order by a succession of good actions. Even in the world the multitude would sneer at a man who took more care of his horse than of himself ; for this reason a man ought to take more care of his soul than of his body. God...
Página 155 - Viraf ! teach them not to think so ; teach them the danger of such a way of thinking — all, all will pass away as a dream. " The flowers fade, and give lessons unto man that he is unwilling to profit by. Yea, the world itself will pass away, and nothing will remain but God.
Página 70 - He was driven from men, and did eat grass as the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown as eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Página 122 - Quando gli giovani si svegliavano, egli si trovavano là entro e vedevano tutte queste cose, veramente si credevano essere in paradiso. E queste donzelle sempre istavano con loro in canti e in grandi sollazzi; donde egli aveano sì quello che volevano, che mai per lo volere non si sarebbono partiti di quello giardino.
Página 154 - Recollect that your body will return to dust, but your soul, if rich in good works, will mount to immortality, and partake of the happiness you have already witnessed. Take less care of your body and more of your soul ; the pains and aches of the body are easily cured, but who can minister to the diseases of the soul ? When you set out on a journey in the lower world, you provide yourselves, and take with you money, clothes, provisions, and are prepared against all the exigencies of the road, but...
Página 305 - Those whose bodies are now beneath in this earth, when animated by thy mercy, were great ; and whatever happiness was bestowed upon them in this world, came from thee, O God ! " Their grief and sufferings were many, at the first; but they became happy, because they always called upon thy holy name in their miseries. Thou liftedst me up, and I became powerful.
Página 121 - ... detto Malcometto. E gli saracini di quella contrada credevano veramente che quello fosse lo paradiso ; e in questo giardino non entrava se non colui, cui egli voleva fare .assassino.
Página 121 - Egli aveva fatto fare fra due montagne in una valle lo più bello giardino e '1 più grande del mondo ; quivi avea tutti frutti, e li più belli palagi del mondo, tutti dipinti ad oro ea bestie ea uccelli.