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...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...Alcaeus is dead, I will take poison—and I saw myself going to Xerxes, our Persian chemist, and asking for the powder. We had agreed, years back, dur... ...eeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered abo... ...ow does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered about the newly retur... ...aside his doll and tell me fables. He had learned many from his father, a Persian, and he was constantly visiting orientals to pick up their stories... ...ent makes it a “check” from which I can’t escape...as they say in the new Persian game. P My girls sense that I am troubled and try to distract me.... ...they remained weighted to his lap. I ate supper there, lingering with the ancientness of his rooms, dark mosaics, the crowning of a king behind him,... ...o you break off?” I asked. He did not answer but said: “They knew, those ancients, how to supplicate the lowliest...they preferred the virginal...s... ...ds by the seaward window in her library... carved ivory racks hold books, ancient papyri, Egyptian clay tablets, copies of hymns. Blue from the b...

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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... ... to all kinds of matters of importance for the Antiquarian-the student of ancient law, customs, manners, art, and economic life. For there is hardly... ...uched upon in the Sacred Books of tlte East-for the simple reason that in ancient religion almost anything and everything has some religious aspect.... ...e still more the Sacred Books themselves, must be for all students of the ancient civilizations of India, Persia, China, and Arabia. And if the Inde... ...mselves, must be for all students of the ancient civilizations of India, Persia, China, and Arabia. And if the Index should do nothing else but hel... ...blished the Kaabah and proclaimed the pilgrimage, 9, 59; monotheism, the ancient faith of A., 6, I, liv, 18; and the birds, 6, 41; offers wine to ... ..., 10 4 n., 163, 265, 272, 317. J\cts, religious, ue Works. 'Ad (n. of an ancient Arab tribe) Hud sent as an apostle to 'A., 6: 145 sq. j and Thamu...

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... back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. T...

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... her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recre... ...ght, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry"--Provided by... ...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...Alcaeus is dead, I will take poison—and I saw myself going to Xerxes, our Persian chemist, and asking for the powder. We had agreed, years back, dur... ...eeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered abo... ...ow does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered about the newly retur... ...aside his doll and tell me fables. He had learned many from his father, a Persian, and he was constantly visiting orientals to pick up their stories... ...ent makes it a “check” from which I can’t escape...as they say in the new Persian game. P My girls sense that I am troubled and try to distract me.... ...they remained weighted to his lap. I ate supper there, lingering with the ancientness of his rooms, dark mosaics, the crowning of a king behind him,...

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...pally treats of the love of books, we have chosen, after the fashion of the ancient Romans, fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon. CHAPTER I... ...s. Furthermore, Aristotle, in his Problems, determines the question, why the ancients proposed prizes to the stronger in gymnastic and corporeal conte... ...sire to know, and since by means of books we can attain the knowledge of the ancients, which is to be desired beyond all riches, what man living accor... ..., and to avoid the danger of impending death he shows the slight sign of the ancient tonsure which we bestowed upon him, begging that we may be called... ...cover ings, not that they have not been given to us, but that the coverings anciently given to us have been torn by violent hands, insomuch that our ... ...er! Happy was that translation of books which Xerxes is said to have made to Persia from Athens, and which Seleucus brought back again from Persia to ... ...ed books of the Hebrews, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Chaldaeans, the Persians and the Medes, all of which learned Greece had transferred into ...

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...mythical conflict is prophetic or symbolical of the struggle of Athens and Persia, perhaps in some degree also of the wars of the Greeks and Carthagin... ...also of the wars of the Greeks and Carthaginians, in the same way that the Persian is prefig- ured by the Trojan war to the mind of Herodotus, or as t... ...e…. And the armed image of the goddess which was 5 Plato dedicated by the ancient Athenians is an evidence to other ages that men and women had in th... ...ere endowed with intelligence and the love of beauty. The Acropolis of the ancient Athens extended to the Ilissus and Eridanus, and included the Pnyx,... ...to and from the royal palace which they built in the centre is- land. This ancient palace was ornamented by successive generations; and they dug a can... ...e, such as the Greeks believed to have existed under the sway of the first Persian kings. But all such empires were liable to degenerate, and soon inc... ... then let us hear you sound the praises and show forth the virtues of your ancient citizens. CRITIAS: Friend Hermocrates, you, who are stationed last ... ...been provided, but not before. And this is the reason why the names of the ancients have been preserved to us and not their actions. This I infer be- ...

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... who are wholly ignorant of the workings of nature, it is certain that the ancients took for a miracle whatever they could not explain by the method a... ...ciently understand a thing when they have ceased to wonder at it. (23) The ancients, then, and indeed most men up to the present day, had no other cri... ...y incredible of the sea’s dividing to save these people, for we find it in ancient records that this hath been seen before, whether by God’s extraordi... ...aking use of Alexander at that time as His instru- ment for destroying the Persian Empire. (132) This is attested by all the historians who have prete... ...certain fundamental rules of the language with ease and even elegance, the ancient writers evidently ne- glected such rules altogether, and employed i... ...d by men of an after age whose authority should carry no weight. (108) The ancients wrote without points (that is, without vow- els and accents), as i... ...cts of Mordecai, the historian refers us to the chronicles of the kings of Persia. (50) Thus there is no doubt that this book was written by the same ... ...dua, the sixth high priest, who went to meet Alexander the Great, when the Persian empire was almost subdued (Josephus, “Ant.” ii. 108), or who, accor... ...d 70 A Theologico-Political Treatise: Part Two last high priest under the Persians. (57) In the same chapter of Nehemiah, verse 22, this point is cle...

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... of baseness: and yet this was the brief analysis of a devotee amongst the ancient Ro- mans. Now, considering that the word religion is originally Rom... ...ustered to such a derivation: but the last of the three is conclusive. The ancients never did view morality as a mode of obligation: I affirm this per... ...hronism. It is the anachro- nism of unconsciously reflecting back upon the ancient reli- gions of darkness, and as if essential to all religions, feat... ...lind terror, as against power in the hands of divine wickedness, arose the ancient religions of Paganism. Because the gods were wicked, man was religi... ...he other hand, for a mere ‘cultus’ to attempt conversions, is nonsense. An ancient Roman could have had no motive for bringing you over to the worship... ...his career. His literary fate was what might have been expected. After the Persian war, the reputation of his verses rapidly decayed. Wits arose in At... ...mpossibility is not a trifle. If from orthodox T urkey you pass to heretic Persia, if from the rigor of the Sonnees to the laxity of the Sheeahs, you ... ...tantism. It is more accurate to say that the separate creeds of Turkey and Persia are within Mahommedanism; such, viz., as that neither excludes a man... ...the other side of that region: none of other great cities—Roman, Parthian, Persian, Median, in that same region or adjacent regions. Babylon only is c...

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...cy furnished by literature as well as by the popular taste. Was it not the Ancients that began it? Aristophanes, Catullus, Petronius, Martial, flew in... ...ent that Rabelais only collected popular tra- ditions and gave new life to ancient legends is said to be proved by the large number of megalithic monu... ...larity of his novel. No one has ever yet produced a written passage or any ancient testimony to prove the existence of the name before Rabelais. To pl... ...ngdoms and empires, from the Assyrians to the Medes, from the Medes to the Persians, from the Persians to the Macedonians, from the Macedonians to the... ...idoted Fanfreluches: or, a Galimatia of extrava- gant Conceits found in an ancient Monument. No sooner did the Cymbrians’ overcomer Pass through the a... ...d of the monsters and tyrants wherewith it was suppressed. My masters, the ancient Pantagruelists, have confirmed that which I say, and withal declare... ...with rich diamonds, precious rubies, fine turquoises, costly emeralds, and Persian pearls, you would have com- pared it to a fair cornucopia, or horn ... ...us in the Queen of Sheba, who came from the utmost borders of the East and Persian Sea, to see the order of Solomon’s house and to hear his wisdom; in... ...s as Midas had, yet have you something, I know not what, of him, which the Persians of old esteemed more of in all their otacusts, and which was more ...

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...f an Indian warrior, making haste from the high places of the earth to its ancient reservoir. The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of ... ...Above the petty Province here, And Britain far away; Some hero of the ancient mould, Some arm of knightly worth, Of strength unbought, and f... ...imackRivers the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented. The very dogs that sullenly bay... .... It had not a New England but an Oriental character, reminding us of trim Persian gardens, of Haroun Alraschid, and the artificial lakes of the East.... ...leep already under moss grown monuments,—outgrow their usefulness. This is ancient Billerica, (Villarica?) now in its dotage, named from the English B... ...words by which he deeded his hunting grounds away. He comes with a list of ancient Saxon, Norman, and Celtic names, and strews them up and down this r... ...t I am better ac quainted with those of the Hindoos, the Chinese, and the Persians, than of the Hebrews, which I have come to last. Give me one of th... ... is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds. What else have the Hindoos, the Persians, the Babylonians, the Egyptians done, that can be told? It is the ... ...ng. None of her children has done justice to the poets and philosophers of Persia or of India. They have even been better known to her merchant schola...

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... thyself be heralded by the pangs of martyrdom? Sainted love, if, like the ancient children of the Hebrews, like Meshech and Abednego, thou wert calle... ...h seems too perfect and unalloyed—[a spirit of restless distrust, which in ancient times often led men to throw valuable gems into the sea, in the hop... ...in, accom- panied by Hannah, to the police court and to the prison—a vast, ancient, in parts ruinous, and most gloomy pile of build- ing. In those day... ... also were many stalls and booths, kept there upon some local privilege of ancient inheritance, or upon some other plea made good by gifts or bribes— ... ...s it recalled her original name of pussy. And, by the way, she had also an ancient and honorable sur- 79 Thomas de Quincey name, viz., De Erauso, whi... ...ble— so you have declared, you cannot revoke it. T rue, you thought not of Persia—you thought only of my importunity. But that very fact is what ratif... ...effort of restoration, than he could have anywhere else in Christendom. In Persia, and, perhaps, there only on this terraqueous planet, matters might ... ...m the reckless folly, under severe illness, from indigestion, of the three Persian princes, who visited this country, as stated by their official mehm... ...ole ancient system of civi- lization, all the miracles of Greece and Rome, Persia and Egypt, moved by the machinery of races that were not tainted wit...

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...His- tory becomes fluid and true, and Biography deep and sub- lime. As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the... ...tals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm, so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its ba... ... honor and such lax discipline as great boys have? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons ... ... to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital: so out o... ...s’s eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love i... ...al; that in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe and lets no of... ...mmer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds. The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue. Who can analyze the nameles... ...never know. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in; for they said that the soul of man, embodied ... ...erits of Zertusht or Zoroaster. When the Yunani sage arrived at Balkh, the Persians tell us, Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every cou...

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...ground beside his knee, is stooping to throw dice with a sly-looking young Persian re- cruit; the other gathered about a guardsman who has just finish... ... is invading his country. Not knowing this, is intent on his game with the Persian, whom, as a foreigner, he considers quite capable of cheating him. ... ... the laughter from the group round the storyteller dies away, the kneeling Persian, winning the throw, snatches up the stake from the ground. BELZANOR... ...nning the throw, snatches up the stake from the ground. BELZANOR. By Apis, Persian, thy gods are good to thee. THE PERSIAN. T ry yet again, O captain.... ...They shrink back, appalled and disconcerted.) Was he not my son-in-law, my ancient friend, for 20 years the master of great Rome, for 30 years the com... ...sert of savagery. Savagery, they think, became barbarism; barbarism became ancient civilization; ancient civilization became Pauline Christian- ity; P... ...mitate humanity as I know it. Nobody knows whether Shakespear thought that ancient Athenian joiners, weavers, or bellows menders were any different fr... ...ng those who have read this play in manuscript a strong conviction that an ancient Briton could not possibly have been like a modern one. I see no rea... ...ountenance to it in any of my plays. In this I follow the precedent of the ancient myths, which represent the hero as vanquishing his enemies, not in ...

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...agle counter to the course of the heavens which it had followed behind the ancient who took to wife Lavinia, 1 a hundred and a hundred years and more... ...ld to thee,—then with Titus it ran to do vengeance for the avenging of the ancient sin. 17 And when the Lombard tooth bit the Holy Church, under its ... ...riote 2 revolving in the third epicycle rayed out mad love; wherefore the ancient people in their ancient error not only unto her did honor with sacr... ...thou shorten for him his long fatigue with thy works. Florence, within the ancient circle wherefrom she still takes both tierce and nones, 7 was abid... ...uch a sweet inn, Mary, called on with loud cries, 20 gave me; and in your ancient Baptis- tery I became at once a Christian and Cacciaguida. Moronto ... ...alem shall be seen marked with a I, while an M shall mark the con- 12 The Persians, who know not Christ, will rebuke the sins of kings professedly Ch... ... story that the inventor of the game asked, as his reward from the King of Persia, a grain of wheat for the first square of the board, two for the sec...

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...Cossack soul” trying to break through the shell of sordid to-day like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they a... ... are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness... ...ian host, still dressed in the skins of wild beasts, still worshipping the ancient fire and practising pagan rites: “Then Southern Russia, under the m... ...“Taras Bulba” could not have been written without the “Odyssey.” Once more ancient fire gave life to new beauty. And yet at the time Gogol could not h... ...n having no understanding whatever of God.” Then he goes on to compare the ancient har- mony, perfect down to every detail of dress, to the slight- es... ... all the vineyards. In the mosques they left heaps of dung. They used rich Persian shawls for sashes, and girded their dirty gaberdines with them. Lon... ...thern origin, but to what particular nation he belonged, India, Greece, or Persia, no one could say with certainty. Of tall, almost colossal stature, ...

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... won, both conquered stand, And this defended they in noblest wise ‘Gainst Persian knights and many a valiant band; Tortosa won, lest winter might the... ... if his work should his sepulchre be. 10 Jerusalem Delivered XXVI “Turks, Persians conquered, Antiochia won, Be glorious acts, and full of glorious p... ...XLVI Fame tells, that on that ever-blessed day, When Christian swords with Persian blood were dyed, The furious Prince Tancredi from that fray His cow... ...t took, and oft beguiled. 37 Torquato Tasso XLI This lusty lady came from Persia late, She with the Christians had encountered eft, And in their fles... ...The Prince of Egypt war ‘gainst you prepare, What if the valiant Turks and Persians bold, Unite their forces with Cassanoe’s heir? Oh then, what marbl... ...went on with lucky speed, And reared rams their horned fronts advance, The Ancient Foe to man, and mortal seed, His wannish eyes upon them bent askanc... ...X “I think,” quoth he, “on this distressed town, The aged Queen of Judah’s ancient land, Now lost, now sacked, spoiled and trodden down, Whose fall in...

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...h, that a great many Jews use the bap- tism of John to this day. Look into ancient authors, and thou 8 Letters on England wilt find that John only re... ... still have seats in the House of Lords in spite of the Whigs, because the ancient abuse of considering them as barons subsists to this day. There is ... ...to be always governed by their Druids and the chiefs of their villages, an ancient kind of barons, not so tyrannical as their successors. These Druids... ...The power of the House of Commons increased every day. The families of the ancient peers were at last extinct; and as peers only are properly noble in... ...de. They furnish with beauties the seraglios of the Turkish Sultan, of the Persian Sophy, and of all those who are wealthy enough to purchase and main... ...pended for several years, which thinned very considerably the seraglios of Persia and T urkey. A trading nation is always watchful over its own intere... ...their being weaned. Some pretend that the Circassians borrowed this custom anciently from the Arabians; but we shall leave the clearing up of this poi...

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... In its finest passages we indeed seem to hear a voice akin to that of the ancient Hebrew prophets, but there is much in the book which Europeans usua... ...traditions of the Muhammadans themselves, with reference especially to the ancient chronological list printed by Weil in his Mohammed der Prophet, as ... ...ng the pilgrim- age, of Hudaibiya, Hej. 6– the embassy to Chosroes King of Persia in the same year, to the Governor of Egypt and to the King of Abyssi... ...10, composed annals of Muhammad’s life and of the progress of Islam. These ancient writers are the principal sources whence any- thing like authentic ... ...ven specified foreigners who had been his coadjutors. Such were Salman the Persian, to whom he may have owed the descriptions of Heaven and Hell, whic... ...ity offered for the growth of a new power, by the ru- inous strifes of the Persians and Greeks. Abulfeda (Life of Muhammad, p. 76) expressly says that... ... desire of conquest, partly by religious con- victions, they had conquered Persia in the seventh century, the northern coasts of Africa, and a large p... ...r, to the chronological list of Suras given by Weil (Leben M. p. 364) from ancient tradition, as well as from the consentient voice of tradionists and... ...n many of their details, it will generally be found that where there is an ancient and tolerably universal consent, there will be found at the bottom ...

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...and fine kraut. Let us proceed in a body to the borough, and re- store the ancient order of things in V ondervotteimittiss by eject- ing that little f... ... so deadly. The origin of this enmity seems to be found in the words of an ancient proph- ecy—“A lofty name shall have a fearful fall when, as the rid... ...e, thus discovered, a tendency to allay the irritable feelings of the less ancient and less wealthy Berlifitzings. What wonder then, that the words, h... ...shed up, will look quite as fresh as ever. “Here is something better. ‘The Persian Iris appears to some persons to possess a sweet and very powerful p... ... smile from Lady Bury.” He is easy—easy as an old glove, or the damsels of ancient Baiae. Originality:—Y our diddler is original—conscientiously so. H... ...would we do without the Atalantic telegraph? (Pundit says Atlantic was the ancient ad- jective.) We lay to a few minutes to ask the cutter some ques- ... ... ruby; but from it there poured a light so intense, so still, so terrible, Persia never worshipped such—Gheber never imag- ined such—Mussulman never d... ... the means of elevating to the throne of Cyrus, the Magian or Mige-Gush of Persia, and as the cutting off his nose gave Zopyrus possession of Babylon,...

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... this large room divided by columns and an arch, its walls hung round with Persian carpets. The part of the room behind the columns, with a high silk-... .....,”* said Dolokhov. “Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?”** asked a Frenchman. “It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it re- ferred to a former war... ... clavichord. One adjutant, nearest the door, was sitting at the table in a Persian dressing gown, writing. Another, the red, stout Nesvitski, lay on a... ... further initiation a like method of enlightenment. Our Order imitates the ancient societies that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. A hierogl... ... very center, leaning back against the orchestra rail, stood Dolokhov in a Persian dress, his curly hair brushed up into a huge shock. He stood in ful... ...om there. They say he has been acting as minister to some ruling prince in Persia, where he killed the Shah’s brother. Now all the Moscow ladies are m... ...ho was considered an excellent reader, to read the appeal. “To Moscow, our ancient Capital! “The enemy has entered the borders of Russia with immense ... ... by this enthusiasm and spoke of it as Plutarch speaks of the deeds of the ancients. Prince V asili, who still occupied his former important posts, fo... ...all the blind tools of history were the most enslaved and involuntary. The ancients have left us model heroic poems in which the heroes furnish the wh...

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...t would melt away, for all of them are due to suspicion and the tyranny of ancient prejudice. Those who (as is common in the English-speaking world) r... ...difficult. In regard to Asia, and more particularly in regard to India and Persia, the application of principles is clear in theory though difficult i... ...its own manner of education and its own type of civilization. India has an ancient tradition, very different from that of Western Europe, a tradition ... ...gies directed to the creation of new goods rather than the perpetuation of ancient evils. Envy, the third of the psychological causes to which we attr...

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... won, both conquered stand, And this defended they in noblest wise ‘Gainst Persian knights and many a valiant band; Tortosa won, lest winter might the... ... if his work should his sepulchre be. 10 Jerusalem Delivered XXVI “Turks, Persians conquered, Antiochia won, Be glorious acts, and full of glorious p... ...XLVI Fame tells, that on that ever-blessed day, When Christian swords with Persian blood were dyed, The furious Prince Tancredi from that fray His cow... ...t took, and oft beguiled. 37 Torquato Tasso XLI This lusty lady came from Persia late, She with the Christians had encountered eft, And in their fles... ...The Prince of Egypt war ‘gainst you prepare, What if the valiant Turks and Persians bold, Unite their forces with Cassanoe’s heir? Oh then, what marbl... ...went on with lucky speed, And reared rams their horned fronts advance, The Ancient Foe to man, and mortal seed, His wannish eyes upon them bent askanc... ...X “I think,” quoth he, “on this distressed town, The aged Queen of Judah’s ancient land, Now lost, now sacked, spoiled and trodden down, Whose fall in...

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... oldest, Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “The Three Hermits” 162 the very ancient one. The latter smiled, and said: ‘We do not know how to serve God.... ...oreigners from all parts of the world met and conversed. One day a learned Persian theologian visited this cof fee house. He was a man who had spent ... ...n the existence of a God. The Shah, hearing of this, had banished him from Persia. Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “The Coffee House of Surat” 217 Af... ...e glare of the sun, and driving away the flies that buzzed around him. The Persian having settled down on a divan in the coffee house, ordered himself... ...ether in Jerusalem. Then, with the Temple of Jerusalem — the wonder of the ancient world — restored to its splendour, shall Israel be established a ru... ... Omar, and not of Ali, for the latter are false to the faith.’ To this the Persian theologian, who was of the sect of Ali, wished to reply; but by thi...