Persia Past and Present: A Book of Travel and Research, with More Than Two Hundred Illustrations and a MapMacmillan, 1906 - 471 páginas |
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... Mount Ararat , and the Road to the PERSIAN BORDER • 16 ✓ IV . PERSIA , THE LAND AND ITS HISTORY , AND OUR INTEREST IN THE COUNTRY V. THROUGH THE SNOW FROM THE ARAS TO TABRIZ 24 33 VI . VII . TABRIZ , THE RESIDENCE OF THE CROWN PRINCE ...
... Mount Ararat , and the Road to the PERSIAN BORDER • 16 ✓ IV . PERSIA , THE LAND AND ITS HISTORY , AND OUR INTEREST IN THE COUNTRY V. THROUGH THE SNOW FROM THE ARAS TO TABRIZ 24 33 VI . VII . TABRIZ , THE RESIDENCE OF THE CROWN PRINCE ...
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... MOUNT ARARAT , NEAR ERIVAN 17 From a print . RUSTOM , MY GEORGIAN GUIDE TO THE FRONTIER From a photograph by the author . 17 ERIVAN 19 • From a print . ARMENIAN CHURCH AND MONASTERY AT ECHMIADZIN 19 From a print . PAGE 21 21 17 23 24 24 ...
... MOUNT ARARAT , NEAR ERIVAN 17 From a print . RUSTOM , MY GEORGIAN GUIDE TO THE FRONTIER From a photograph by the author . 17 ERIVAN 19 • From a print . ARMENIAN CHURCH AND MONASTERY AT ECHMIADZIN 19 From a print . PAGE 21 21 17 23 24 24 ...
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... MOUNT ALVAND . From a photograph by Mirza Sahak , of Hamadan . From a photograph . Drawn by Aram Zohrabian . 145 145 146 PERSIAN CATS AT THE MISSION HOUSE , HAMADAN . 151 THE MUSALLAH HILL , HAMADAN From a photograph . From a photograph ...
... MOUNT ALVAND . From a photograph by Mirza Sahak , of Hamadan . From a photograph . Drawn by Aram Zohrabian . 145 145 146 PERSIAN CATS AT THE MISSION HOUSE , HAMADAN . 151 THE MUSALLAH HILL , HAMADAN From a photograph . From a photograph ...
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... MOUNT DAMAVAND From a photograph . KER PORTER'S PLAN OF REI • From Ker Porter , Travels , 1. 360 . TOWER ON A HILL NEAR REI From a photograph . XXV PAGE • 430 432 · 435 • 435 TOWER AMONG THE RUINS OF REI , After Restoration From a ...
... MOUNT DAMAVAND From a photograph . KER PORTER'S PLAN OF REI • From Ker Porter , Travels , 1. 360 . TOWER ON A HILL NEAR REI From a photograph . XXV PAGE • 430 432 · 435 • 435 TOWER AMONG THE RUINS OF REI , After Restoration From a ...
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... and Research, with More Than Two Hundred Illustrations and a Map Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson. TYPES OF YEZIDIS , OR DEVIL - WORSHIPPERS , AT TIFLIS TIFLIS CITADEL ( ANOTHER VIEW ) MOUNT ARARAT , NEAR ERIVAN RUSTOM , MY GEORGIAN ...
... and Research, with More Than Two Hundred Illustrations and a Map Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson. TYPES OF YEZIDIS , OR DEVIL - WORSHIPPERS , AT TIFLIS TIFLIS CITADEL ( ANOTHER VIEW ) MOUNT ARARAT , NEAR ERIVAN RUSTOM , MY GEORGIAN ...
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Achæmenian Afrasiab Alexander Alvand ancient antiquity Arab arch Armenian Auramazda Avesta Azarbaijan bas-reliefs bazaars Behistan Bisitun called caravan caravansarai carved century citadel columns cuneiform Cyrus Darius Ecbatana Erivan feet figure fire fire-temple Geog Grundr Hamadan height Herodotus hill horses hundred Ibn Haukal inscription of Darius Iran Iranian Isfahan journey JRGS Justi Kangavar Kei Khosru Ker Porter Kermanshah Khosru king Lake Urumiah ledge letters London looks Magian Maraghah Masudi Media miles Mohammedan Mount mountain Musallah naiy Naksh-i Rustam Namah natives night Oriental Pahlavi palace Persepolis Philol photograph plain Rawlinson regarding rock ruins Sasanian sculptures Shah Shirin Shiz shrine side snow Spiegel stone tablets Tabriz Tak-i Bostan Takht-i Suleiman Teheran temple Tiflis tion tomb town Travels UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Urumiah village Vishtaspa Voyage en Perse walls Weissbach and Bang word Xerxes Yakut Yezidis Zindan Zoroaster Zoroaster's Zoroastrian
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Página 290 - 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 379 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, How is she become tributary...
Página 253 - He lingered, poring on memorials Of the world's youth ; through the long burning day Gazed on those speechless shapes ; nor, when the moon Filled the mysterious halls with floating shades, Suspended...
Página 290 - twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. That bower and its music I never forget, But oft when alone, in the bloom of the year, I think — is the nightingale singing there yet ? Are the roses still bright by the calm BENDEMEER?
Página 317 - And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Página 287 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Página 367 - I should like to rise and go Where the golden apples grow; Where below another sky Parrot islands anchored lie, And, watched by cockatoos and goats. Lonely Crusoes building boats; Where in sunshine reaching out Eastern cities, miles about, Are with mosque and minaret Among sandy gardens set, And the rich goods from near and far Hang for sale in the bazaar; Where the Great Wall round China goes, And on one side the desert blows, And with bell and voice and drum, Cities on the other hum; Where are...
Página 113 - We search out dead men's words, and works of dead men's hands ; We shut our eyes, and muse How our own minds are made...
Página 137 - ... hewn three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits: and set the towers thereof upon the gates of it, an hundred cubits high, and the breadth thereof in the foundation threescore cubits: and he made the gates thereof, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and the breadth of them was forty cubits, for the going forth of his mighty armies, and for the setting in array of his footmen...
Página 298 - DISTICHS. I've heard that once a man of high degree From a wolf's teeth and claws a lamb set free. That night its throat he severed with a knife. When thus complained the lamb's departing life, "Thou from the wolf didst save me then, but now, Too plainly I perceive the wolf art thou.