... poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle bed, by far the most comfortable of the three tiers of berths in the... ... the Indus, he sent his ships to survey the coasts of the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf, while he himself marched along the shore of the province, the... ...skinned Ethiopian, and over all these ruled the keen-witted, active native Persian race, the conquerors of all the rest, and led by a chosen band prou... ...c realm! Moreover, it was a war not only on the men but on their gods. The Persians were zeal- ous adorers of the sun and of fire, they abhorred the i... ...pon the coast of Attica; but the losses at Marathon had but stimulated the Persian lust of conquest, and the new King Xerxes was gath- ering together ... ...the highlanders of Scotland. They had gradually spread themselves over the middle of Europe, and had for some generations past lived among the Alpine ... ...the altar of their one true God with the false idol Jupiter’s altar in the middle of it. These warriors, who had turned three armies to flight, could ... ...at it would be useless to attempt a direct assault. Indeed, during all the Middle Ages, the modes of protecting fortifications were far more efficient... ... very young, and he thought it for their good to marry a widow, Mrs. Alice Middleton, with one daughter named Margaret, and he likewise adopted an orp...

... were Theseus himself returning alive to the city. He lies interred in the middle of the city, near the present gymnasium. His tomb is a sanctuary and... ... overpowered, that they had behind them a secure retreat. The level in the middle, where they were to join battle, being surrounded with many little h... ...’ skins into thongs, they run about naked, only with something about their middle, lashing all they meet; and the young wives do not avoid their strok... ...strik- ing a pillar that sustained the roof with his fist, broke it in the middle, so that the house fell and destroyed the children in it; and being ... ...th. Solon could not rise to that in his polity, being but a citizen of the middle classes; yet he acted fully up to the height of his power, having no... ...live, condemned to be burnt, and laid bound upon the pile be- fore all the Persians and Cyrus himself, he cried out as loud as possibly he could three... ...ified it with pictures and other ornaments, after it had been burnt by the Persians. It is confessed by all that from his youth he was of a vehe- ment... ...ough he was still young when the battle of Marathon was fought against the Persians, upon the skillful conduct of the general, Miltiades, being everyw... ...y able to persuade them, avoiding all mention of danger from Darius or the Persians, who were at a great distance, and their com- ing very uncertain, ...

... times men of other countries, that were no sailors, that came with them; as Persians, Chaldeans, Arabians, so as almost all nations of might and fame... ...ated; which room hath a half pace at the upper end. Against the wall, in the middle of the half pace, is a chair placed for him, with a table and car... ...st glad of the news. The day being come he made his entry. He was a man of middle stature and age, comely of person, and had an aspect as if he piti... ... blue; and under his foot curious carpets of silk of divers colors, like the Persian, but far finer. He held up his bare hand, as he went, as blessing... ...l the upper region, account the air between the high places and the low as a middle region. We use these towers, according to their several heights an...

...o entertain themselves with quiet and inof- fensive amusements. But in the middle of this entertainment, those who sought occasion to quarrel, fell in... ...les, was Barsine the daughter of Artabazus; and in the distribution of the Persian ladies amongst his captains, Alexander gave Apame, one of her siste... ...’s displeasure, doing his best to withhold him when he began to follow the Persian fash- ions, and always maintaining the customs of his country, when... ...was newly entered upon the government, there came news from Asia, that the Persian king was mak- ing great naval preparations, resolving with a high h... ...s Agesilaus sent him to the Hellespont, whence he procured Spithridates, a Persian of the province of Pharnabazus, to come to the assistance of the Gr... ...bis, admiring the sagacity of Agesilaus, immediately placed himself in the middle of the 88 V olume Two Greek troops, and fought with them; and upon ... ...ing of his army against Antony, and placed his father-in-law Scipio in the middle against Lucius Calvinus. The left wing was commanded by Lucius Domit... ... hotly pursued by Alexander, who drove those that fled before him into the middle of the battle, where Darius himself was in person, whom he saw from ... ...he trousers nor the sleeved vest, nor the tiara for the head, but taking a middle way between the Per- sian mode and the Macedonian, so contrived his ...

...tes. The Viceroy knew nothing of Mellishe except that he was “one of those middle-class dei- ties who seem necessary to the spiritual comfort of this ... ...ties who seem necessary to the spiritual comfort of this Para- dise of the Middle-classes,” and that, in all probability, he had “suggested, designed,... ...ick as my wrist round his forehead, a salmon-colored loin- cloth round his middle, and a steel bangle on each ankle. This was not awe-inspiring. It wa... ... that the seal-cutter will die of cholera—the white arsenic kind—about the middle of May. And thus I shall have to be privy to a murder in the House o... ... lights, and there we saw how beautiful the woman was. She stood up in the middle of us all, sometimes choking with crying, then hard and proud, and t... ...ver. Others are bitten with a mania for District work, Ghuznivide coins or Persian poetry; while some, who come of farmers’ stock, find that the smell... ... of men who said they had come from the North. I think they must have been Persians or Afghans or something. There are not more than five of us living... ...The Englishman, he drank as well as smoked, and he dropped off. One of the Persians got killed in a row at night by the big well near the mosque a lon... ...b (she used to live with Fung- Tching), the other Eurasian, and one of the Persians. The Memsahib looks very old now. I think she was a young woman wh...

...t seen such a man. They be Hindus in Tibet, then?’ ‘We be followers of the Middle Way, living in peace in our lamasseries, and I go to see the Four Ho... ...d the Curator’s pencil from point to point. Here was Kapilavastu, here the Middle King dom, and here Mahabodhi, the Mecca of Buddhism; and here was K... ...ow caste or high?’ ‘Why should I ask? There is neither high nor low in the Middle Way. If he is my chela–does–will–can anyone take him from me? for, l... ... said the lama, after a pause, ‘there is no pride among such as follow the Middle Way.’ ‘But thou hast said he was low caste and discourteous.’ ‘Low c... ...in that Black Year of which I now remember other tales. Enter now upon the Middle Way which is the path to Freedom. Hear the Most Excellent Law, and d... ... do whom he watches, he may be slain. Why hinder him now? Remember how the Persians say: The jackal that lives in the wilds of Mazanderan can only be ... ...line thus. But as regards Lutuf Ullah–a tall man with a broken nose, and a Persian greyhound Aie!’ The boy had hurried off to wake up a young and ent... ...’ chim ney pots, as is the custom of Simla. But even more than the purely Persian meal cooked by Lurgan Sahib with his own hands, the shop fascinated... ...rociously, pushed back behind torn and rotten screens of geometrical work; Persian water jugs for the hands after meals; dull copper incense burners n...

...t of fathers. A monkey, a Dutch mastiff, a mackaw, Two parrots, with a Persian cat and kittens, He chose from several animals he saw A te... ... the imagination or the senses, Song, dance, wine, music, stories from the Persian, All pretty pastimes in which no offense is; But Lambro saw... ...richly wrought, display’d, Embroider’d delicately o’er with blue, Soft Persian sentences, in lilac letters, From poets, or the moralists their... ...plate and porcelain, Had done their work of splendour; Indian mats And Persian carpets, which the heart bled to stain, Over the floors were ... ... could ne’er discover, And scorn to add a syllable untrue; But ere the middle watch was hardly over, Just when the fading lamps waned dim and ... ...d no assistance Could remedy this lubberly defect; They blew up in the middle of the river, While, though ‘t was dawn, the Turks slept fast as... ... France (Though these to our Gibraltar must knock under)— Right in the middle of the parapet Just named, these palisades were primly set: So... ...of bedding. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Eight” 205 Some voices of the buxom middle aged Were also heard to wonder in the din (Widows of forty w... ... I by and by may tell you, if at all: But now I choose to break off in the middle, Worn out with battering Ismail’s stubborn wall, While Juan ...

...—clean, clear, even daylight. What idler in the streets has not beheld the Persian, that Asiatic potentate, ruffling it above the door at the corner o... ... possession. The Human Comedy gave way before the comedy of cashmeres. The Persian sacrificed a diamond or two from his crown to buy that so necessary... ...at stand, in the windows, at the counter, by the door, in a corner, in the middle of the shop, meditat- ing, to all appearance, on the joys of a bacch...

...es with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380 And the wor... ...re Ninus shone, who spread the Assyrian fame, And the great founder of the Persian name: There in long robes the royal Magi stand, Grave Zoroaster wav... ...ection how allied; What thin partitions 88 sense from thought divide: And middle natures, how they long to join, Yet never pass th’ insuperable line!... ... AL. I. The business of Man not to pry into God, but to study himself. His middle nature; his powers and frailties, ver. 1 to 19. The limits of his ca... ...d to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledg... ...fy for who can guess? The bard whom pilfer’d Pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale 102 for half-a-crown, 180 Just writes to make h... ..., if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? 102 ‘ A Persian tale:’ Ambrose Philips translated a book called the ‘Persian Tales.... ... souse the cabbage with a bounteous heart. He knows to live, who keeps the middle state, And neither leans on this side, nor on that; Nor stops, for o... ...ian style, So Latin, yet so English all the while, As, though the pride of Middleton and Bland, All boys may read, and girls may understand! Then migh...

...ships, dragons, or mysterious animals. The man squatted on a carpet in the middle of this room, with folded arms, waggling his head to and fro, swayin... ...o paint the colour. I wonder the Sultan has not swept her off, or that the Persian merchants, who come with silks and sweetmeats, have not kidnapped h... ...etmeats, have not kidnapped her for the Shah of Tehran. We went to see the Persian merchants at their khan, and purchased some silks there from a swar... ...ophia is four hundred and seventy-three feet in height, measuring from the middle nail of the gilt cres- cent surmounting the dome to the ring in the ... ...idan is exceedingly pic- turesque—the mosque court and cloister, where the Persians have their stalls of sweetmeats and tobacco; a superb sy- camore-t... ...ir stalls of sweetmeats and tobacco; a superb sy- camore-tree grows in the middle of this, overshadowing an aromatic fountain; great flocks of pigeons... ...r The Sublime Porte—which is like a fortified gate of a German town of the middle ages—into the outer court, round which are public of- fices, hospita... ...oor, and quaint carved pulpit and ornaments, and nobody at prayers. In the middle distance rose up the noble towers and battlements of 80 Notes on a ...

...is that from which the title is derived. Of all people who ever lived, the Persians were perhaps most remarkable for their unshaken credulity in amule... ...as not couched or levelled like that of his antagonist, but grasped by the middle with his right hand, and brandished at arm’s-length above his head. ... ...iking contrast with the Western Crusader. His stature was indeed above the middle size, but he was at least three inches shorter than the European, wh... ...ough, the Saracen also sung lays in praise of wine, the liquid ruby of the Persian poets; and his gaiety at length became so un- suitable to the Chris... ...s- formed into snakes before the King of Pharaoh; and the daughters of the Persian sage were less apt than others to be afraid of the addresses of a s... ...upon his mace, and perhaps the unwary Saracen would have been paid for his Persian poetry by having his brains dashed out on the spot, without any rea... ..., a strong-built and harsh-featured man, past, as his looks betokened, the middle age of life. His couch was trimmed more softly than his master’s, an... ...rious priest-soldier by whom he was accompanied. He was a handsome man, of middle age, or something past that term, bold in the field, sagacious in co... ...h, be what or whom thou wilt!” As he spoke he poised his long lance by the middle, and, fixing his eye upon the object, which seemed to move, he brand...

...ows, he showed himself in practice what he is in his book, the friend of a middle and temperate policy. Tolerant by character and on principle, he bel... ...eir ground—who, in the battle of Plataea, not being able to break into the Persian phalanx, bethought themselves to disperse and retire, that by the e... ...im his caudle,—[A custom in France to bring the bridegroom a caudle in the middle of the night on his wedding-night]—if matters had not gone well with... ...of the three times, he should tie the ribbon I put into his hand about his middle, and be sure to place the medal that was fastened to it, the figures... ... the royal majesty with greater difficulty declines from the summit to the middle, 167 Montaigne then it falls and tumbles headlong from the middle t... ... the oracle answered to those of Delphos who, fearing to be invaded by the Persians in the Median war, inquired of Apollo, how they should dispose of ... ..., iii., 31.] In that excellent institution that Xenophon attributes to the Persians, we find that they taught their children virtue, as other nations ... ...rious fashions without any prejudice to his health; one while outdoing the Persian pomp and luxury, and another, the Lacedaemonian austerity and fruga... ... this answer: “As to the exordium, I remember it not, nor consequently the middle of your speech; and for what concerns your conclusion, I will not do...

...top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it. 17 Behold, I will br... ...waters came 84 Book of Exodus upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves. 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots a... ...e ephod all of violet, 21 And a hole for the head in the upper part at the middle, and a woven border round about the hole: 22 And beneath at the feet... ...from Aroer, which is seated upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, and of the middle part in the valley, and of half Galaad, as far as the torrent Jaboc,... ...f it. 27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate, to speak to him treacherously: and he stabbed him there... ...e seventy years were expired. 22 But in the rst year of Cyrus king of the Persians, to ful l the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth o... ...the mouth of Jeremias, the Lord stirred up the heart of Cyrus, king of the Persians: who commanded it to be proclaimed through all his kingdom, and by... ... his kingdom, and by writing also, saying: 23 Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord the God of heaven giv... ... up. First Book of Esdras Chapter 1 In the rst year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be ful l...

...told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did Chapter 1 Loomings 17 the Greeks give ... ... Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the Chapter 2 The Carpet Bag 21 middle of a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towar... ... shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown stud... ...porcupine quills round an Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, the same as in South American ponchos. But could it be ... ... Spouter Inn I got up and took off my monkey jacket, and then stood in the middle of the room thinking. I then took off my coat, and thought a little ... ...a seal skin wallet with the hair on. Placing these on the old chest in the middle of the room, he then took the New Zealand head — a ghastly thing eno... ... ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up — flaked up, with rose water snow. The starred an... ...s it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness and power; by the Persian fire worshippers, the white forked flame being held the holiest on th... ...m his periodical feeding grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters h...

...told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, an... ... silver,—So, wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the middle of a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towar... ... shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown stud... ...rcu- pine quills round an Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as you see the same in South Ameri- can ponchos. But co... ...he bed-side, I got up and took off my monkey jacket, and then stood in the middle of the room think- ing. I then took off my coat, and thought a littl... ...seal-skin wal- let with the hair on. Placing these on the old chest in the middle of the room, he then took the New Zealand head—a ghastly thing enoug... ...ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up—flaked up, with rose-water snow. The starred and... ...s it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness and power; by the Persian fire worship- pers, the white forked flame being held the holiest o... ... his periodical feeding- grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters h...

...for them. As instances, you have all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the Engli... ...the turf by the road side and wrote the name and dates on it. Abreast the middle of the porch front stood a great granite flower vase over flowing w... ... without a crinkle in it. And it lay exactly in front of the house, in the middle of the grounds. There couldn’t have been a better place for that lon... ...ws of the Krantz, Vienna’s sumptu ous new hotel. We came into town in the middle of the forenoon, and I went on foot from the station. Black flags hu... ...ment Fridolin entered at the door and came walking in a deep hush down the middle aisle, with a tall skeleton stalking in his rear. Amazement and terr... ...sky, and that day is far, yes—for he was at this pleasant sport before the Middle Ages drifted by him in the valley; before the Romans marched past, a... ... wine cup. The only form of government in Greece was a limited monkey. The Persian war lasted about 500 years. Greece had only 7 wise men. Socrates . ...

...tion of the Upanishads to the Western world was through a translation into Persian made in the seventeenth century. More than a century later the dis-... ...holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one, who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book, stirred by t... ... the most widely known of all the Upanishads. It was early translated into Persian and through this rendering first made its way into Europe. Later Ra... ... (of my father’s pupils) I stand first; among many (others) I stand in the middle (but never last). What will be accomplished for my father by my goin... ...ified mind. XII The Purusha (Self), of the size of a thumb, resides in the middle of the body as the lord of the past and the future, (he who knows Hi... ... The seat of the Purusha is said to be the heart, hence It “resides in the middle of the body.” Although It is limit- less and all-pervading, yet in r...

... exspectantium, quo fortunae consilia sua applicent.” [“That is not a middle way, but no way, to await events, by which they refer their resoluti... ...carried betwixt two upon staves of gold, and set in a chair of gold in the middle of his army. As many of these sedan-men as were killed to make him f... ...ng to pass great business, both public and private; and, as Seiramnes, the Persian, answered those who wondered that his affairs succeeded so ill, con... ...an’s arm than they relieve his head. I would fain know how it was that the Persians, so long ago and in the infancy of luxury, made ven- tilators wher... ...r the be- ginning nor the end, it must needs judge very uncertainly of the middle: “Rerum natura nullam nobis dedit cognitionem finium.” [“Nature... ...n Sicily; I have left enough of them at home; I rather seek for Greeks and Persians; they are the men I endeavour to be acquainted with and the men I ... ...betwixt the hatred of pain and the love of pleasure: and Plato sets down a middle path of life betwixt the two. But against such affections as wholly ... ...e; what they performed by virtue, I inure myself to do by temperament. The middle region harbours storms and 268 Essays: Book III tempests; the two e...

.... There was almost rapture in hearing it proposed to me to prepare for The Middle, the organ of our lucubra- tions, so called from the position in the... ...tness for the task? I had written on Hugh Vereker, but never a word in The Middle, where my dealings were mainly with the ladies and the minor poets. ... ...age of nineteen a novel in three volumes, “Deep Down,” about which, in The Middle, he had been really splendid. He appreciated my present eagerness an... ...w; in fact on the Sunday morning I felt sure he hadn’t read it, though The Middle had been out three days and bloomed, I assured myself, in the stiff ... ... had had more recog- nition, and it was pleasant, as we used to say in The Middle, to see how it drew him out. He wasn’t of course popular, but I judg... ...thing, I guessed, in the primal plan, something like a complex figure in a Persian carpet. He highly approved of this image when I used it, and he use...

... moulded the doors and window- frames; the ceilings were imitated from the middle-ages or those of a Venetian palace; marble veneering abounded on the... ...usand francs,—the value of an actual forest. Here, in this solitude in the middle of Paris, the birds sang, thrushes, nightingales, warblers, bulfinch... ...rming, pieces of furniture worthy to have belonged to Madame de Pompadour, Persian rugs, et cetera. For a last graceful touch, all these elegant thing... ...cingen, was at the end of a short gallery deco- rated in the manner of the middle-ages. This gallery opened on the side of the courtyard upon a large ... ...especially when dressed, as she was this morning, in a break- fast gown of Persian silk, the folds of which could not dis- guise the beauty of her fig... ...t be called anything but captain.” “The fact is that the Florentine of the middle-ages has re- appeared in our century,” said the countess. “Dante and... ...nce of Bohemia Letters of T wo Brides The Muse of the Department The Middle Classes Cousin Betty The Country Parson In addition, M. Bianchon...