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  To the Scriptures we give increased attention; they do more to unfold and expand the intellectual powers, and to create careful and honest thinkers


id: 36301
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  Rise, Malek, and tell me truly if you are as happy as you seem to be: I am told you do nothing but laugh and sing the live-long day while at your work: you are thought to be the happiest man in my dominions, and there is reason to believe that such is really the case


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id: 21331
title: The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
author: Morier, James Justinian
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  girdle, and said, �This is the man I bought the horse of.� As soon as head of the Shah, Mirza Ahmak is a good man. �Whose son are you?� said the old man, her father. �You say true, Hajji,� said Mirza Ahmak, as he shook his head from immediately be said that it came from the dead man''s beard." "Are you a man," said he, "to treat a poor Emir like me in the manner �Every time the good man prays,� said I, �he will think of me; and as �Yes,� said a youngish man, who had eyed me with looks of great money--they themselves know that best,� said he, looking at them through �By the head of Ali!� said the man, �I do not very well recollect. Amân!_� said the old man, rubbing his hand on his cheek, �I think I feel �My father?� said I, after a pause; �he was a man of great power.


id: 28871
author: Rawlinson, George
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  Chaldaea, Assyria, Media, Babylon, Persia, Parthia, Sassanian Empire; And The History of Phoenicia linked index of the detailed chapters and illustrations PREFACE TO FIVE GREAT MONARCHIES. Cuneiform inscriptions (drawn by the Author, from bricks in the British Museum) Cuneiform inscriptions (drawn by the Author, from bricks in the British Museum) Chaldaean dish-cover tombs (ditto) Chaldaean dish-cover tombs (ditto) Chaldaean jar-coffin (ditto) Chaldaean vases of the first period (drawn by the Author from vases in the Chaldaean vases, drinking-vessels, and amphora of the second period (ditto) Chaldaean lamps of the second period (ditto) Flint knives (drawn by the Author from the originals in the British Museum) (drawn by the Author from the originals in the British Museum) CHAPTER III. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER XIV. Map of Parthia CHAPTER VII�ÆSTHETIC ART CHAPTER XIV�POLITICAL HISTORY 3. Phoenicia during the period of its subjection to Assyria (B.C. 4.

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  The Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Asian World A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions


id: 16764
title: History of the Wars, Books I and II The Persian War
author: Procopius
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  carrying Roman money to the enemy, and had taken Amida from the Persians Roman Celer and the Persian Aspebedes; both armies then retired homeward into the land of the Persians and the Romans, they come with their the Roman army as great, if not greater, than before; and the Persians the Roman territory, and they came upon their enemy near the city of Sittas and the Roman army came to a place called Attachas, one hundred Persians to the Romans came into the presence of the Emperor Justinian army of the Persians invaded the land of the Romans. Chosroes, son of Cabades, invaded the land of the Romans at the opening And on the following day men were sent to the city by Chosroes in But Chosroes, upon learning that Belisarius with the whole Roman army Zeno, Roman emperor at the time of the Persian king Arsaces, I.


id: 16765
title: History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War
author: Procopius
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  later Boniface and the Romans in Libya, since a numerous army had come So the Vandals, having wrested Libya from the Romans in this way, made Libyans had been Romans in earlier times and had come under the Vandals And on the following day Gelimer commanded the Vandals to place the of the Vandals'' camp happened three months after the Roman army came to the emperor''s army had come from the sea, they began to be in great fear taken by the Moors from the Vandals, III. commands five men to remain on each ship, III. Moors of, defeat the Vandals, III. entered by the Roman army under Belisarius, III. follows the Roman army, III. plans his attack upon the Roman army, III. commanded to precede the Roman army, III. John, a Roman soldier, chosen emperor, III. recovered by the Romans from the Vandals, III. entered by the Roman army, III.


id: 26473
title: The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam
author: Kevorkian, Hagop K.
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  [Illustration: MUHAMMAD (THE PROPHET) WITNESSES ALI (HIS SON-IN-LAW One of the eight illustrations for a XIIIth Century Persian Manuscript present copy is a subsequent one of the Persian version, translated by conquering peoples, for it preached at the same time a new religion. History of Persia", Vol. I, page 204.] ILLUSTRATIONS FOR TITLE-PAGES OF A SHAHNAMA (EPIC OF KINGS) of the LORD CURZON says (History of Persia, Vol. II, page 37) that "Even CURZON, History of Persia, Vol. II, page 34. in a barrel of his own paint."--History of Persia, Vol. II, page 33. AT THE COURT OF SHAH ABBAS THE GREAT (A.D. 1588-1629)] old,[8] is an important event in the history of Art. For out of this [Footnote 8: "PERSIAN influence increased at the court of the CALIPHS, LORD CURZON in his History of Persia, Vol. II, page 38, gives the forms of artistic expression of the MUHAMMADAN world.


id: 30085
title: Life of Henry Martyn, Missionary to India and Persia, 1781 to 1812
author: Rhea, Sarah J.
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  LIFE OF HENRY MARTYN, MISSIONARY TO INDIA AND PERSIA, 1781 to 1812 Henry Martyn''s attention was called to the great cause of Foreign the kingdom in that dark land, and into the home of one of these, Rev. David Brown, was Mr. Martyn received with much affection. Mr. Martyn''s plain and pungent preaching was a great offense to some gospel), to be the word of God?'' I took him to walk with me on the Thus Mr. Martyn traveled, journeying night and day, and The alarming state of his health made some change necessary, and Mr. Martyn was urged to leave India and make trial of a sea voyage. From this time a change comes over Mr. Martyn''s varied life. June 9 Mr. Martyn arrived at Shiraz, the celebrated seat of Persian It is said that after Mr. Martyn''s death one of his earliest and most Would that Henry Martyn''s life might bring such a message to every


id: 21512
title: Modern Persia
author: Daniel, Mooshie G.
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  wrote the author asking what is the moral condition of Persia to-day in Persia begins some thousands of years before the Christian era. A Parsee believes the soul of a dead man is for three days walking near large cities of these lands were converted into mosques for the worship chief dies there is a day of lamentation throughout Persia and lords lords or counts or rich people marry they charge large sums of money believed that God created all men for the sake of Mohammed and his over all Persia, spending a short time in each city they visit doing Most men of the middle class, at some time in life go on a pilgrimage to-day the door facing the east which Christians entered to worship The mosque is open day and night, and men may come into prayer at any streets of Persian cities every warm summer day men carrying a bottle


id: 22117
title: Across Coveted Lands; or, a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland
author: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage
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  by far the best rest-house on the road to the Persian capital, with large Of course Persia contains a comparatively small number of Persians of a animals from the great heat of the day--long strings of camels with their shingle hill range extending from the north-east to the south-west. Yezd men are great travellers and possess good business There was a high mountain north-east of camp, the Darband, 8,200 feet, towers--Passes into the desert--A wall-like mountain range--The wall-like barrier to the north and the handsome hills to the south-west. In the centre of this city was a large and high quadrangular wall like a We passed a great many parallel sand dunes, 100 feet high, east and west this place, but some two miles off the road a well of good water has been Three long sand banks from 30 to 50 feet high, facing north,


id: 20298
title: Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.
author: Procopius
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  of Goths, Romans, and the soldiers of the emperor, to wait quietly for But as time went on, the Visigoths forced their way into the Roman invited Belisarius to come to Rome, promising to put the city into his the very same time when Belisarius and the emperor''s army were entering previous day had come to the Goths, when they saw Belisarius fighting in were, among the Romans, Belisarius, and among the Goths, Visandus Now the way the Romans came to build the city-wall on both sides of the Romans would be thrown into great confusion, sent to Belisarius some following day Belisarius commanded all the Romans to remove their women Roman of note among the Goths, and he, coming before Belisarius, spoke men among the citizens came to Rome and begged Belisarius to send them a Goths at the time when Vittigis was about to march against Rome, and so


id: 1170
title: Anabasis
author: Xenophon
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  Pigres to the generals of the Hellenes, with orders to present arms At Tarsus Cyrus and his army halted for twenty days; the soldiers 1 halted five days, and here Cyrus sent for the generals of the At this point Cyrus turned to those who were present and said: "Such king would arrive the following day with his army to offer battle. brought to Cyrus by deserters who came in from the king''s army before and return the way he came, but reaching the camp of the Hellenes, 8 king and his men; so that the greater number of the Hellenes went great king having won the victory and slain Cyrus, bids the Hellenes march in safety for the rest of that day, reached the river Tigris. But on the following day Xenophon took the headman and set off to now reached such a pass that the men actually came to Xenophon''s tent


id: 10974
title: A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán
author: De Windt, Harry
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  city some miles out of Baku, called by the natives "Tchortorgorod," or The hut, like most native houses in Persia, had no chimney, the only Given a good horse and fine weather, Persian travel would be We averaged fifty miles a day after leaving Teherán, desolate-looking place and filthy post-house, which was reached at dingy brown walls, mud houses, and white minarets of the city of the Persian cities--saving, perhaps, Teherán--it retains but little of we rode out of Kashán next day, past the moated mud walls, forty feet ninety feet long by fifty broad, its walls covered with large We covered, the first day out from Ispahán, nearly a hundred miles The rock, about half a mile long, is intersected by one narrow street, Shiráz stands in a plain twenty-five miles long by twelve broad, from the day we left Beïla till our arrival at Dhaïra about midday on


id: 8699
title: Woman and Her Saviour in Persia By a Returned Missionary
author: Laurie, Thomas
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  think people will believe me," said a pupil to her teacher, who was One day in August, Mar Yohanan said to Miss Fiske, "You get ready, and boarding pupils, Miss Fiske had a few day scholars; next year she had submission of souls to God. Besides these there is a weekly prayer meeting on Tuesday evening, a noon prayer meeting was very pleasant; Miss Rice said a few words on He gave no pledge, but a weeping voice said, "Let me pray." The hand prayer meeting, Mr. Stoddard said, "God will assuredly carry forward living sacrifice to God. One day he came to the teachers, saying, "I with God. Miss Fiske returned from the English prayer meeting Sabbath evening, PUPIL.--SPIRIT OF PRAYER IN 1846.--WOMAN WHO COULD NOT PRAY.--"CHRIST PUPIL.--SPIRIT OF PRAYER IN 1846.--WOMAN WHO COULD NOT PRAY.--"CHRIST The day Miss Fiske left Oroomiah, a large number of women and girls


id: 13064
title: Persia Revisited
author: Gordon, Thomas Edward, Sir
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  The King, Nasr-ed-Din Shah, Kajar line_.'' to give an impetus to their trade in North Persia was good roads, not imported by way of the Persian Gulf, so that now in Persia what is known At Tehran there is a big gun, said to have been brought by Nadir Shah for the Tehran post), he passed on to a Minister who was a good Persian line, and carried out the will of the great Fateh Ali Shah, who had During all the changes since Mohamed Shah''s accession, Persia has interesting sights in Persia, the stables of his Majesty the Shah. breeding and training for long-distance races in Persia, and the time in murderer of the late Shah, remained in Tehran, and continued the late Shah until her death, which took place at Tehran in May, 1892. Nasr-ed-Din Shah, whose long reign, and on the whole good rule, have so


id: 36301
title: The Thousand and One Days: A Companion to the "Arabian Nights"
author: Pardoe, Miss (Julia)
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  prayers the earth opened, and the dervise said to the young man, "You "Now, O king!" continued the old man, "I have lived long enough, since night, to the tree where I was bound, and said to me, "Young man, I am "Great prince," said the cadi as soon as he perceived me, "blessed be "My prince," said she, "even were you not the son of a great king, I contemplation." "Thy wishes shall be gratified," said Almguer; "thou and looking towards Lin-in, said, "During the time my dear son-in-law said, "Great king, whose justice and goodness have raised the vast "Lovely princess," said Khalaf, "what is the name of that prince who, "I know for how long a time thou hast thought thus," replied Yousouf. journey, for this young man is dead; his funeral took place some days "Let us depart, my lord," said prince Aly; "the time is precious.


id: 38253
title: A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
author: nan
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  time ago on account of the great trade in gold which they carry on country saw such great destruction of their people and ships, The King of Guzarat is a great lord, both in revenue and people, and This King possesses great cities in his kingdom, and especially the river, with a large town called Baticala,[167] of very great trade very large town, peopled by Moors and Gentiles, of the kingdom of said that many men come from all the other kingdoms to this king''s has a Moorish king, a great lord; and in former times this kingdom women relations of the kings and great lords come also to see the king lives, towards the south is a very good town called Cananor.] country-born Moors, and much shipping and a great trade of exporting The king and people of this kingdom are Gentiles. kingdom of Gentiles which has a king who resides in a very great and


id: 38828
author: Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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  road to Ali-kuh, a village not far from the river, at the foot of a the Cherri Pass, and a wall-like range of mighty mountains of white Opposite are the large camp and white tent of Chiragh Ali Khan, a watching, said that men were prowling round the tents at all hours, 3 P.M.--An hour ago Mirab Khan arrived with a number of armed horse a large walled village at an elevation of 7100 feet, camped for two day each so long as I want them, with two men, "handing over the mules These men, acting as road-guards, are a great terror to the people. The village Khan, an intelligent man, spent some time with me in the live in separate villages from the Kurds, Persians, and Armenians, and The men were dressed like Kurds, and were nearly as wild-looking. The first day''s half march ended at Angugh, an Armenian village on the

title:
  Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 2 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs


id: 39463
author: Hume-Griffith, A.
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  The Kerman of to-day is a large walled-in city of about forty thousand I once saw a little girl about seven years old sitting by the roadside the day, and certainly a good cellar is a great boon to a European, one sad day the poor young wife hears that her husband is about to become little women before they had passed out of childhood''s days, ago I heard of a little black boy in Mosul, whose mother, a Moslem The children of Mosul have on the whole a very good time. I was visiting one day in a Moslem house, and the old mother-in-law A short time ago a very sad and sudden death took place in Mosul in A Mosul Moslem woman told me a short time ago that she did Another day I went to visit a little patient of my husband''s in whom

title:
  Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman''s Eight Years'' Residence Amongst the Women of the East


id: 38827
author: Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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  ground, a covered bazar well supplied, houses with blank walls, large walls of rock with narrow passes, great snow-covered mountains, seen in falling snow and deep mud rode over fairly level ground till we expanse of snow, broken by mud villages looking like brown islands, through the snow, came in three hours later, men and mules thoroughly good houses like this one, hidden behind high mud walls. snow and mud gallops are impossible, and three miles an hour is good saddle-mule, or large white ass, nearly always led, carrying a Persian day at last came, and a good and powerful man, whose loss is said to Persian housings, looked like a life-guardsman''s horse. The snow was piled in great heaps in the village and against the wall house called the Fort, with a very fine room fully thirty feet long by reached Gandaman, a good-looking walled Moslem village of 196 houses,

title:
  Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs


id: 45844
title: Our Little Persian Cousin
author: Shedd, E. Cutler (Ephraim Cutler)
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  ONE day Karim''s mother, whom he was now learning to call "Nana," said THE village where Karim lived lay at the mouth of a little valley. When Karim was seven years old Dada began to send him here with his time Karim was given stories to read which told of the wonderful deeds ONE evening Dada said, "Shahbaz has just come from the city, and says But when Karim was thirteen years old the mullah said, "You When Karim was still a little boy Nana had taken him with her to the WHEN the agha went back to the city to become its governor Karim bade One day the mirza said, "Karim, you know about that dog of a Kurd, The village boys with Karim said that this was a holy place, because On the way back Karim asked the major what the sheikh had said.


id: 52189
title: Sketches of Persia
author: Malcolm, John
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  man as their officer." "Why," said an old Moullah, "I have often seen in which the King and Prince held the Elchee, both of whom, he said, my brother,'' said the old man; ''bestow your alms, and you shall be price?''--''I shall only ask you, who are a new customer,'' said the man, "Now," said the old Mehmandar, "this man continued twenty years with said the Turkish chief, "they belong to one of the old Persian tribes, desirous to give it another character, said to the Elchee, "I have The king, at this visit, appeared in great good humour with the Elchee, of Persepolis, said he would like to be king of Persia. "Ay, ay," said the old man, "nature will come out. On the death of Hajee Ibrahim, the king is said to have desired to The King of Persia determined, however, as he said, that his first


id: 63224
title: With the Persian Expedition
author: Donohoe, Martin Henry
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  still lay thick upon the Persian mountain passes, General Beyond a few Persian road guards in British pay, or an occasional On May 21st a small British column left Hamadan for the north-west of raid the armoured car--And have a thin time--Turks get the wind up. raid the armoured car--And have a thin time--Turks get the wind up. armoured-car patrol and a few British N.C.O''s pushed along the Tabriz bolt--British force withdrawn--Turks proclaim a Holy War--Cochrane''s bolt--British force withdrawn--Turks proclaim a Holy War--Cochrane''s Persians, but their British officers, Captains Heathcote, Amory, and force broken up--Bicherakoff reaches Baku--British armoured car crews force broken up--Bicherakoff reaches Baku--British armoured car crews his British armoured car auxiliaries went off north by rail towards rescue--Dunsterville sets out--Position at Baku on arrival--British rescue--Dunsterville sets out--Position at Baku on arrival--British The day after the British evacuation of Baku the Turks entered, and are--Turkish massacres--Russian withdrawal and its effect--British


