Persia: Through Persia from the Gulf to the CaspianJ. B. Millet, 1910 - 323 páginas |
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... Horseman Carrying Presents to the Shah of Persia on his Birthday 128 Mohammedan Women on House Tops . A Holy Man of Persia . A Revolutionist in Chains A City Gate · 160 • 192 224 288 EDITORIAL NOTE OWHERE in the world is there a land vii.
... Horseman Carrying Presents to the Shah of Persia on his Birthday 128 Mohammedan Women on House Tops . A Holy Man of Persia . A Revolutionist in Chains A City Gate · 160 • 192 224 288 EDITORIAL NOTE OWHERE in the world is there a land vii.
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... Shah , they once more held their own amidst the turmoil that fol- lowed at his death . Out of the strife rises the redoubtable figure of Ahmed - bin - Said , the camel driver , who proved the man of the moment and a born leader of his ...
... Shah , they once more held their own amidst the turmoil that fol- lowed at his death . Out of the strife rises the redoubtable figure of Ahmed - bin - Said , the camel driver , who proved the man of the moment and a born leader of his ...
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... Shah Abbas , in an interview which he granted to Mr. Connock , the East India Company's agent in 1617 , promised , " as he called for wine and in a large bowl drank his Majesty's health upon his knee , " that he would grant the Company ...
... Shah Abbas , in an interview which he granted to Mr. Connock , the East India Company's agent in 1617 , promised , " as he called for wine and in a large bowl drank his Majesty's health upon his knee , " that he would grant the Company ...
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... Shah Abbas had called in to his assistance . The English , not scrupling to join forces with an Asiatic against a European nation in this bitter rivalry with the Portuguese , renamed the place Bunder Abbas , after the Persian monarch ...
... Shah Abbas had called in to his assistance . The English , not scrupling to join forces with an Asiatic against a European nation in this bitter rivalry with the Portuguese , renamed the place Bunder Abbas , after the Persian monarch ...
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... Shah , in the middle of the eigh- teenth century , that any attempt was made to add naval to military glory . That far - seeing monarch , with his schemes of world - wide conquest , was quick to perceive the great strategical advantage ...
... Shah , in the middle of the eigh- teenth century , that any attempt was made to add naval to military glory . That far - seeing monarch , with his schemes of world - wide conquest , was quick to perceive the great strategical advantage ...
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Persia: Through Persia from the Gulf to the Caspian Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt Vista completa - 1910 |
Persia: Through Persia from the Gulf to the Caspian Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt Vista completa - 1910 |
Persia: Through Persia from the Gulf to the Caspian Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt Vista de fragmentos - 1910 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abadeh Achæmenian kings Ahuramazda Arab arches bas-relief beauty beneath British building built Bushire capital caravan caravanserai carriage centre century charvadar cliff close colour Consulate courtyard Cyrus Darius doubtless English enormous entrance eyes face famous Fath Ali Shah feet high figure foot further garden gateway glory Gulf Hafiz Hall hand height hills horses hundred Indian inscription Ispahan Jaffir Khan journey Julfa Kerim Khan King of Kings Kishm kotals land lies looks magnificent Mejliss miles mosque mules Murghab Muscat Nadir Shah night once one's Ormuz palace pass Persepolis Persian plain platform Prince-Governor remains rise road rock roof round royal ruins runs Sadi Sassanian scene seems Shah Abbas Shapur Shiraz side sight sowars stands steep stone stood strange stretch suddenly tablet Teheran telegraph things to-day tomb tower traveller trees valley village walls whole wonder Xerxes Zoroastrian
Pasajes populares
Página 191 - 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 192 - 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 192 - And a dew was distill'd from their flowers, that gave All the fragrance of summer, when summer was gone. Thus memory draws from delight, ere it dies, \ ".> An essence that breathes of it many a year...
Página 161 - Firdaus rue zamtn ast — hamin ast to, hamin ast to, hamin ast (If there is a paradise on earth it is this, it is this, it is this).
Página 164 - Having become weary of the society of my friends at Damascus, I set out for the wilderness of Jerusalem, and associated with the brutes, until I was made prisoner by the Franks, who set me to work along with Jews at digging in the fosse of Tripolis, till one of the principal men of Aleppo, between whom and myself a former intimacy had subsisted, passed that way and recognized me, and said, " What state is this ? and how are you living ?
Página 165 - God! from the pains of hell." At length she gave vent to reproaches, and said, "Art thou not he whom my father purchased from the Franks
Página 24 - though familiarised with the navigation of all the seas, shed " bitter tears, and had forgotten all his science. * * * For " myself, in this situation, with tears in my eyes I gave my" self up for lost. Through the effect of the stupor, and of " the profound sadness to which I began a prey, I remained, " like the sea, with my lips dry and my eyes moist.
Página 243 - I know, I am Cyrus, who founded the empire of the Persians. Grudge me not therefore this little earth that covers my body.
Página 172 - O give Love's sportful joys; Youth, and all that youth employs ; Wine like rubies bright, and red ; And the board with dainties spread ; Gay associates, fond to join In the cup of circling wine ! Give the handmaid's lip divine, Blushing deeper than her wine ; Minstrels vers'd in tuneful art ; And the friend that's next our heart ; With the valued, cheerful soul, Drainer of the brim-full bowl ! Give the nymph, that's tender, kindi Pure in heart, and pure in mind, n 2 As th...
Página 186 - O joyous and gay is the New Year's Day, and in Shiraz most of all ; Even the stranger forgets his home, and becomes its willing thrall. O'er the garden's Egypt, Joseph-like, the fair red rose is King, And the Zephyr, e'en to the heart of the town, doth the scent of his raiment bring.