A Journal of Two Years' Travel in Persia, Ceylon, Etc, Volumen1W.H. Allen and Company, 1857 - 4 páginas |
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... leaves ventures on the somewhat hackneyed assurance , that when this Journal was penned , it was never intended for the public eye - -but such an assurance is nevertheless strictly true . The circumstances which have led to its present ...
... leaves ventures on the somewhat hackneyed assurance , that when this Journal was penned , it was never intended for the public eye - -but such an assurance is nevertheless strictly true . The circumstances which have led to its present ...
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... leaves . That very amusing and instructive navigator , Mr. Herman Melville , has fully described the many ways of cooking the bread - fruit , practised in the South - Sea Islands . Here it would appear that its uses are not so ...
... leaves . That very amusing and instructive navigator , Mr. Herman Melville , has fully described the many ways of cooking the bread - fruit , practised in the South - Sea Islands . Here it would appear that its uses are not so ...
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... leaf in the hand . They seem to have few of the foolish superstitions of Indian Brahmins , re- garding pollution from the touch of a stranger , and similar matters . My happening to enter a priest's house would , in India , have ...
... leaf in the hand . They seem to have few of the foolish superstitions of Indian Brahmins , re- garding pollution from the touch of a stranger , and similar matters . My happening to enter a priest's house would , in India , have ...
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... leaves , which are shaped like a heart , are about seven inches in length ; and the fruit , though akin to a fig , is not larger than a cherry , and of a pink colour when ripe . This fruit has no stalk , and consequently does not depend ...
... leaves , which are shaped like a heart , are about seven inches in length ; and the fruit , though akin to a fig , is not larger than a cherry , and of a pink colour when ripe . This fruit has no stalk , and consequently does not depend ...
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... leaf of the banian resembles that of the poplar , and is four or five inches long . Mil- ton commits a woful error when , in describing the first garments of our first parents , he likens these leaves unto an " Amazonian targe , " for ...
... leaf of the banian resembles that of the poplar , and is four or five inches long . Mil- ton commits a woful error when , in describing the first garments of our first parents , he likens these leaves unto an " Amazonian targe , " for ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
A Journal of Two Years' Travel in Persia, Ceylon, Etc, Volumen1 Robert B. M. Binning Vista completa - 1857 |
A Journal of Two Years' Travel in Persia, Ceylon, etc.: Vol. I Robert B.M. Binning Vista previa limitada - 2023 |
A Journal of Two Years' Travel in Persia, Ceylon, etc.: Vol. I Robert B.M. Binning Vista previa limitada - 2023 |
Términos y frases comunes
Alee ancient appear Arab Arabic language Baghi bazar believe Bombay Boodha Boodhist Brahmins built Bushire called caravansary centre Ceylon charvadar chief Christian Cingalese Colombo colour consists contains cultivated distance English European faith farsakhs feet front Galle garden Government governor ground Hâfiz half hand hills Hindoo horse Hosein houses Imaum India Indian navy inhabitants island kaleon Kandy Kauzeroon keroonee kind king Kishm Koran Kureem Khan labour land Lootees Mahomedan Mahommed ment miles moollahs morning Moslem mosque mountains Muscat Nakshi Rustam native nearly never night Nuera Nuera Ellia ooroosee pass Persian Persian Gulf plain plant possess prince religion residence rice road rock roof Sâdee sculpture sect Shah Shapoor Sheeahs Sheerauz Sheikh shrubs side Soofee Soonnee spot stands stone tablet Tahmuras temple Tengi thick thou tion tomâns tomb town travellers trees Veddahs village visited wall water sapphire wine
Pasajes populares
Página 400 - Much of the soul they talk, but all awry, And in themselves seek virtue, and to themselves All glory arrogate, to God give none; Rather accuse him under usual names, Fortune and Fate, as one regardless quite Of mortal things.
Página 430 - 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 362 - In the exercise of political government he was compelled to abate of the stern rigour of fanaticism, to comply in some measure with the prejudices and passions of his followers, and to employ even the vices of mankind as the instruments of their salvation. The use of fraud and perfidy, of cruelty and injustice, were often subservient to the propagation of the faith...
Página 364 - A countless multitude; Syrian, Moor, Saracen, Greek renegade, Persian, and Copt, and Tartar, in one bond Of erring faith conjoined - strong in the youth And heat of zeal - a dreadful brotherhood.
Página 413 - Bell and the Dragon's chaplains were More moderate than these by far : For they (poor knaves) were glad to cheat, To get their wives and children meat ; But these will not be fobb'd off so, They must have wealth and power too ; Or else with blood and desolation They'll tear it out o...
Página 412 - From whom the institution came, When Church and State they set on flame, And worn by them as badges then Of Spiritual Warfaring-men) Judge rightly if Regeneration Be of the newest cut in fashion : Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That Grace is founded in dominion.
Página 406 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him that he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain...
Página 312 - Persian ink never loses its color and lustre. I have in my possession some MSS. written more than four centuries ago — the paper has turned dingy and dark, but the writing is as clear and brilliant as if it had been executed yesterday. This ink, though not impaired by age, is easily injured by damp, and may be completely blotted out by a wet finger.
Página 258 - ... called himself, Hafiz. He was a prolific writer and, though of the Mohammedans, he in nowise shared their ideas as regards the grape, and its juice. In fact he considered wine a great blessing and a worthy subject for his pen, as the following selections from some of his many ghazals will amply show : O cup-bearer, fetch me a measure of wine: bring one or two flagons of the pure liquor. Bring the right medicine for all the pains and troubles of love — namely the juice of the grape — for that...
Página 256 - The season of Spring has arrived : endeavour now to be merry and gay while thou art able ; for the roses will blow again and again, after thou art laid under the sod.