Persia Past and Present: A Book of Travel and Research, with More Than Two Hundred Illustrations and a MapMacmillan, 1906 - 471 Seiten |
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... tion immediately , and the villagers came out in a friendly manner from their simple homes , helped me to replace my scattered belongings , and guided us to a place of lodging . The upper room where I spent the night was fairly comfort ...
... tion immediately , and the villagers came out in a friendly manner from their simple homes , helped me to replace my scattered belongings , and guided us to a place of lodging . The upper room where I spent the night was fairly comfort ...
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... tion cut off . Most desolate among all the sights , however , was a ruined caravansarai , which , like a hundred others in Persia , was attributed to Shah Abbas the Great as builder . The magnificence of its founder and the former ...
... tion cut off . Most desolate among all the sights , however , was a ruined caravansarai , which , like a hundred others in Persia , was attributed to Shah Abbas the Great as builder . The magnificence of its founder and the former ...
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... tion from Ormazd on the heights of the Iranian Sinai and that he wrote the Avesta there.2 Among these authorities is the author of the Suvar Aklāim Sabah , or ' Outline of Countries , ' who , writing in Persian , about A.D. 1400 ...
... tion from Ormazd on the heights of the Iranian Sinai and that he wrote the Avesta there.2 Among these authorities is the author of the Suvar Aklāim Sabah , or ' Outline of Countries , ' who , writing in Persian , about A.D. 1400 ...
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... tion , when the dead again shall rise up , the quick be made immortal , and the world , as desired , made perfect . ' But , exalted and spiritual as these religious tenets were , not everything in the faith occupied so lofty , so ...
... tion , when the dead again shall rise up , the quick be made immortal , and the world , as desired , made perfect . ' But , exalted and spiritual as these religious tenets were , not everything in the faith occupied so lofty , so ...
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... tion of the stone , and this is confirmed by the photograph , which shows the mutilation of the rock , and by Ker Porter's sketch , which represents the figure as having a full beard ( Travels in Persia , 2. 597 , pl . 82 ) , as well as ...
... tion of the stone , and this is confirmed by the photograph , which shows the mutilation of the rock , and by Ker Porter's sketch , which represents the figure as having a full beard ( Travels in Persia , 2. 597 , pl . 82 ) , as well as ...
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Achæmenian ancient antiquity Arab arch Armenian Artaxerxes Auramazda Avesta bas-reliefs bazaars Bisitun Bombay building called caravan caravansarai carved century citadel columns cuneiform Curzon Cyrus dakhmah Darius Dieulafoy Ecbatana farsakhs feet figure fire fire-temple Flandin and Coste Gabar garden Geog Goeje Grundr Hamadan height hills horses hundred Ibn Haukal inscription of Darius Iran Isfahan Istakhr journey Julfa Justi Kangavar Ker Porter Kermanshah Khosru king lake ledge letters looks Magian Masudi miles Mohammedan mosque Mount mountain Naksh-i Rustam Namah natives Pahlavi palace Parsis Parthian Persepolis Philol photograph plain priest Rawlinson regarding royal ruins Sasanian sculptures Shah Shiraz Shirin Shiz shrine side Spiegel stone tablets Tabriz Tak-i Bostan Takht-i Suleiman Teheran temple Tiflis tion tomb tower town Travels Urumiah vaulted village Voyage en Perse walls Weissbach and Bang word Xerxes Yakut Yezd Yezidis Zoroaster Zoroaster's Zoroastrian
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Seite 410 - 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!
Seite 293 - 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...
Seite 227 - Which crowd each nook of that majestic place. The piles give way, the rocky peaks divide, The stream comes gushing on — a foaming tide! A mighty work, for ages to remain, The token of his passion and his pain. As flows the milky flood from Allah's throne, Rushes the torrent from the yielding stone; And sculptured there, amazed, stern Khosru stands, And sees, with frowns, obeyed his harsh commands: While she, the fair beloved, with being rife, Awakes the glowing marble into life.
Seite 312 - 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.
Seite 122 - 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...
Seite 103 - Zoradascht,1 and brought with them offerings : namely, gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worshipped him, and offered to him their gifts. 2 Then the Lady Mary took one of his swaddling...
Seite 152 - ... 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...
Seite 9 - Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Seite 332 - 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.
Seite 44 - Merciful. The President of the United States of North America, and his Majesty as exalted as the Planet Saturn; the Sovereign to whom the Sun serves as a standard; whose splendor and magnificence are equal to that of the Skies; the Sublime Sovereign, the Monarch whose armies are as numerous as the Stars; whose greatness calls to mind that of Jeinshid; whose magnificence equals that of Darius; the Heir of the Crown and Throne of the Kayanians; the Sublime Emperor of all Persia...