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... for January 29, 2012. This is the first known English translation of a quatrain by Omar Khayyám. It appeared in Sir William Jones's A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771). (Introduction by Algy Pug)...

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...“This volume is primarily intended to supply a working and practical knowledge of the Persian language, for the benefit of those who have not the time or the inclination to master the grammar, and yet require to use the spoken tongue for purposes of business or pleasure. With this object in view it supplies ma...

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...Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام). The Rubáiyát (Arabic: رباعیات) is a collection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to the Persian mathematician and astronomer O...

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...Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In 1897 he published a collection of 211 quatrains, which was based on earlier English translations, in particular the prose version by Justin Huntly ...

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...Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. In the Western world he is most famous for his many rubáiyát (quatrains), a four line rhyming stanza, which were popularized in an extensively reworked collection in English by Edwa...

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...Mirza Ghalib, full name Mirza Asadullah Khan Beig, pen name ‘Ghalib’ (1797-1869) was a famous Urdu- and Persian-language poet of India. He is best known for his lyrical and spiritual ghazals. Ghazal is a form of poetry in couplets. In a ghazal, each couplet is self-contained and generally unconnected with the next. Ghalib was b...

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...rsal application, if not the promise of universal conquest; such uncivil and implacable language, concerning overwhelming judgments upon the very eve... ... all upon the very words of our Lord himself, and using the Old Testament only when the language manifestly carried me thither, and the other books ... ...hood, of the Spanish work, and having in former days become acquainted with the Spanish language, thought well, or rather was directed of God, to re... ...evious to this it would have been a sealed book to me, by reason of my ignorance of the language, but during that short time having taken a few lesso... ...eive the clue which has led our author into his interpretation, that the Babylonian and Persian do together compose but one of the kingdoms, and tha... ... faith. For the rest, what our author says concerning the oneness of the Babylonian and Persian kingdom may be true politically considered but is not... ...t. This is further manifest from the vision of the eighth chapter of Daniel, where the Persian power comes upon the prophetic stage with its proper ... ...r count; so that they called the first the empire of the Babylonians, the second of the Persians. Now let us see how unfounded is this division, whi... ...- represented in the statue, by the breast and arms of silver, they say, was that of the Persians, who united with the Medes, under the two heads of ...

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... being essentially one, it comprehendeth within itself all peoples, tribes, and languages, which have sought and may henceforth seek to enter into a... ...Abraham, according to the spirit; that is, to all believers, of every tribe and language and people and nation, without excluding the Jews who may d... ...aham according to the spirit; of all true believers, of every people, tribe, and language of the whole world. All these may say with truth, we then a... ...ellbeing of my neighbours, if I desire with truth that all peoples, tribes, and languages should adore the true God, I comprehend all this in my peti... ...ace upon the throne of Nebuchadnezzar, Darius the Mede, and afterward Cyrus the Persian. Babylon after that epoch remained the principal court of th... ...spoken of ancient Babylon, and the times in which it was taken by the Medes and Persians, it is certain that in those days and in that time, nothing ... ...d in that time, nothing of this kind was accomplished. After that the Medes and Persians had made themselves masters of Babylon, certain of the chil... ...was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion,...

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...umes comprise translations of the 1 I viii PREFACE sacred books of the Persians. Two volumes represent Islam, and six the two main indigenous sys... ...r of an Index to forty-nine volumes of trans­ lations from seven different languages, belonging to as many religions, had to grapple with peculiar di...

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...ly gashes …” – Dan’s hand froze in mid-motion, the towel dripping all over his only Persian carpet. He gazed into far space and his eyes kept expand... ...e equanimity harrowing. “They are all in German, or Polish, or other godforsaken languages. Hard to believe people actually speak them. I couldn’... ...es, undersurface pointers, minor errors. It’s like the very impurities of style and language in the interview are meant to be, are designed to direc...

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...sume you have been successful in your quest?” “Yes, Erik, I have,” said the Persian, of whom I now knew something from Erik’s conversation. “Madame... ...ht admit any guests you’d wish to see.” I caught the hint of humor in the Persian’s tone; he knew there was only one guest I’d want to see. “Come ... ...I want to thank you for your kindness to us ... to him.” “Mademoiselle,” the Persian replied, turning his jade-green gaze to meet mine full-on, “I hav... ...; there seemed to be no point in doing so. “As do I,” Erik responded in that language, without a trace of his native French accent. He turned more sol... ...en she came in from her afternoon ride, I met Claire at the door wearing my Persian trousers and loose shirt, but no mask. “Come upstairs with me, Cl... ...ugh a tangle in her dull red mane. “Pauvre ange.” I reverted to my native language for just a moment, calling the horse “poor angel,” and there I ... ... and I was too bereft to care. I wanted real friends, friends who spoke my language and did not mock me behind my back. It seemed such a simple th...

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...vulets of blood. He stared at her in bewilderment. She laughed huskily and speaking in the native language of the bazaars, invited him to make love ... ...ey, cantered up to John MacGregor, who addressed him in Urdu. John had taught Helen some of this language on their long sea voyage and she understoo... ...ing softly. Then the figure vanished and Helen climbed out of the high bed and padded across the Persian rugs in her bare feet. She stood for a mome... ... door opened to reveal an octagonal room in the centre of which stood a marble tomb inscribed in Persian script. There was a stone bench at one end,... ...vin had mentioned, was all too evident in this vast rectangular room - marble floors covered with Persian carpets, rich tapestries adorning the wall... ... normal again. The man’s eyes opened. He looked at Helen in amazement and muttered something in a language she did not understand, except the words,... ... weak, she gave me this book as a gift to you, Dr. Helen. She said it is her translation from the Persian of the love poems written by her ancestor,... ...urved knives tucked into their Audrey Blankenhagen 202 belts. Ram Das shouted to them in their language,’Pushto’, which he had learned during his... ...ed roughly to the floor of the phaeton. Someone shouted something in Audrey Blankenhagen 286 a language she did not understand and she felt the ca...

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...f art creates freedom and truth; it creates new spaces, new forms, and new languages. - A work of art summarizes the past, interprets the present an... ...ope’s shroud, nor have I invented the art of counterpoint. I am making my Persian carpet and I have before me a great mess of threads and patterns; ... ... Or does this point to a populace who expresses its own wisdom through its language? If the soul is spirit and the body is matter, the soul can only ... ...Many human lives, when they are united socially and historically, create a language and a culture. From the heart of this culture art and artists eme... ...ribe that has just been created can only produce children and a rudimental language; an evolved type of humanity can produce a type of immortal langu...

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... stepped away again. She'd read it in Islamic as if she were fluent in the language, and she damn sure wasn't. There is no power and no strength save ... ... and sat up against the sofa's camel back, feet firmly planted against the Persian rug. "You passed out." He only confirmed what she had known, but he... ...s confines, visually and tactually luxuriating in the colorful pile of his Persian carpet, eager to begin the next phase of the contest and engage his...

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every living creature. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own....

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2....

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... CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We eas... ...ommunity flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast to... ...dinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Tr... ...mply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasure of Ou... ...out ―those water monkeys. CHAPTER 1 ―I am thoroughly convinced that language evolved out of man’s basic need to complain.‖ —Comedienne Lily T... ... Baghdad, where availability of inexpensive paper let them copy Greek and Persian writings and introduce science into the Arab world. Many of the Th... ...hores of the Danube in eastern Europe and from Siberia to Vietnam and the Persian Gulf. ―The Mongol Khans, from Genghis Khan through his sons and ... ... luxuries, such as sleek Chinese silk, diamonds from Golconda, and costly Persian carpets. Islamic officials, however, blocked their way to China ...

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...The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of information available to the student who wish...

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...reek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Gre... ...ve land. It is nevertheless evident, from his familiarity with the customs, language, and laws of Athens, Alexandria and Rome, that he must have resi... ...ns" only three times, [1] once comparing them to the Rhodians, once to the Persians, and once in general to other nations. [2] In the first two of... ...g. VII. 1, 79. The dog and other irrational animals may also possess spoken language, as the only proof that we have to the contrary, is the fact th... ... dogmatised further about motion, [3] and about the soul. [4] If Sextus' language is taken according to its apparent meaning, we find ourselves he... ...on some subject. Complete Scepticism is contrary to the fundamental laws of language, as all use of verbs involves some affirmation. The Pyrrhonists... ...hus: some of the Ethiopians tattoo new-born children, but we do not, and the Persians think it is seemly to have a garment of many colors and reachin... ...sition to other things, as for example to a law, when we say that among the Persians it is the custom to practice ἀξξελνκημίαη, but among the Romans... ... book of travels; among us it is forbidden κεηξάζη κίγλπζζαη, but among the Persians it is the custom by preference to marry so; the Egyptians marry ...

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... CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We eas... ...ommunity flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast to... ...dinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Tr... ...mply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasure of Ou... ...t ―those water monkeys. CHAPTER 1 ―I am thoroughly convinced that language evolved out of man’s basic need to complain.‖ —Comedienne Lily T... ... Baghdad, where availability of inexpensive paper let them copy Greek and Persian writings and introduce science into the Arab world. Many of the Th... ...hores of the Danube in eastern Europe and from Siberia to Vietnam and the Persian Gulf. ―The Mongol Khans, from Genghis Khan through his sons and gr... ... luxuries, such as sleek Chinese silk, diamonds from Golconda, and costly Persian carpets. Islamic officials, however, blocked their way to China or...

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...n, Baluch, and others Religion: 74% Sunni Muslim, 25% Shi'a Muslim, 1% other Language: 50% Pashtu, 35% Afghan Persian (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (pr... ...4% Sunni Muslim, 25% Shi'a Muslim, 1% other Language: 50% Pashtu, 35% Afghan Persian (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen), 4% th... ... (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen), 4% thirty minor languages (primarily Baluchi and Pashai); much bilingualism Life expectan... ... religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Infant mortality r... ...opean Religion: 99% Sunni Muslim (state reli- gion); 1% Christian and Jewish Language: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects Infant mortality rat... ...cal year ending 31 December 1985 $12.7 million, about 3% of the total budget Persian Gulf Al Muharra MANAMA S regional map VI Geography Total area: 62... ...proximity to primary Middle East crude oil sources and strategic location in Persian Gulf through which much of western world's crude oil must transit... ...lusive fishing zone: 50 nm in the Sea of Oman; median-line boundaries in the Persian Gulf Territorial sea: 12 nm Boundary disputes: none; on 17 Septem... ...Nationality: noun Iranian(s); adjective Iranian Ethnic divisions: 63% ethnic Persian, 18% Turkic, 13% other Iranian, 3% Kurdish, 3% Arab and other Sem...

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...D) to be rendered. [In the text below, I have proposed modifications to the language of these criteria to incorporate current knowledge about this d... ...s of the individuals it is comprised of, the stronger the bonds of locale, language, and history – the more rigorous might an assertion of a common... ...Narcissism is nihilistic not only operationally, or ideologically. Its very language and narratives are nihilistic. Narcissism is conspicuous nihili... ...s an alien on drugs, a junkie of Narcissistic Supply devoid of the kind of language, which renders human emotions intelligible. Return The Making ... ...re complex rules in a convoluted world of grandiose fantasies with its own language (jargon) Displays false modesty and unctuous "folksiness" but... ...is loyal staff, and betrayed his countrymen by hiring the former enemy, the Persians, to supplant his Macedonian infantry. Alexander the Great was ... ...and united all the Greeks against him. Even his famed campaign against the Persians owed its success to the latter's precipitous decline rather tha... ...ne, other Greeks (the Ten Thousand, Agesilaus of Sparta) have defeated the Persians decisively. His bloodlust never abated: when his army mutinied ... ...to such ridicule that he reversed his decision. But, he kept on wearing the Persian royal garb and he did execute Calisthenes, an hitherto obsequiou...