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... pal design of wisdom; for to comprise it all in one word, says one of the ancients, and to contract all the rules of human life into one, “it is to w... ...dent,” as the motto of our Talebot has it. ’Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chanc... ...hem lest they should grow dull and rusty; and one author tells us that the Persians used to consult about their most important affairs after being wel... ... discourse; for besides that I easily submit my belief to the authority of ancient opinions, I look upon it indeed as an unmanly and stupid vice, but ... ...vours of the god. There is more time and constancy re- quired than so. The ancients spent whole nights in this exer- cise, and ofttimes added the day ... ... not interrupt his dinner or break his sleep is inexcusable. And there was anciently at Rome, the consular place, as they called it, which was the mos... ...rxes, in almost a like case, moderated the severity of the ancient laws of Persia, ordaining that the nobility who had committed a fault, instead of b... ... the patronage of this goddess, Zoroaster, legislator of the Bactrians and Persians, gave to his under the name of the God Oromazis: T rismegistus, le... ...om I tell a lie. This commendable and generous cus- tom is observed of the Persian nation, that they spoke of their mortal enemies and with whom they ...

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...ame veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labor, which men take in ... ... for it is in effect the thing, which figured in that strange fiction of the ancient poets, which seemeth not to be with out mystery; nay, and to hav... ...in, and how, they have degenerate; but yet ask counsel of both times; of the ancient time, what is best; and of the latter time, what is fittest. See... ...r such a man will transgress for a piece of bread. It is most true, that was anciently spo ken, A place showeth the man. And it showeth some to the b... ... As for nobility in particular persons; it is a reverend thing, to see an ancient castle or building, not in decay; or to see a fair timber tree, s... ...an by a day’s medi tation. It was well said by Themistocles, to the king of Persia, That speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad; where... ...rgil saith) It never troubles a wolf, how many the sheep be. The army of the Persians, in the plains of Arbela, was such a vast sea of people, as it d... ...s wholly (though not wisely) framed and composed, to that scope and end. The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash. The Gauls, Germans, Goths, S... ...nce, Edward the Fourth of England, Alcibiades of Athens, Ismael the Sophy of Persia, were all high and great spirits; and yet the most beautiful men o...

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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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.... W allace, Outlines of the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1875, 1880; A. Grant (Ancient Classics for English readers), 1877; T. Davidson, Aristotle and Anc... ...strengthen the bands of soci- ety, seems to have been known to some of the ancients; for Solon made a law, as did some others also, to restrain per- s... ...sfortuue has befallen them. They were 55 Aristotle also to preserve their ancient patrimony, which custom be- ing broken through by the Leucadians, m... ...seful in other sciences. Thus the science of physic is extended beyond its ancient bounds; so is the gymnastic, and indeed all other arts and powers; ... ...ay also be affirmed, that experience itself gives a proof of this; for the ancient laws are too simple and barba- rous; which allowed the Greeks to we... ...ection, contrary to the treaties which subsisted between them. The King of Persia also very often reduces the Medes and Babylonians when they assume u... ... the four hundred imposed upon the people by telling them that the king of Persia would supply them with money for the war against the Lacedaemonians;... ...nded many of these. There are also many of them to be met with amongst the Persians. What has been already mentioned is as conducive as any- thing can... ...om entertain any noble thoughts: in short, to imitate everything which the Persians and barbarians do, for they all contribute to support slavery; and...

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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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.................. 307 CHAPTER II OF THE DISCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE................... ...of Hercules, that is, to sail out of the straits of Gibraltar, was, in the ancient world, long considered as a most wonderful and dangerous exploit of... ...erhaps, than both of them put together. It is remarkable, that neither the ancient Egyptians, nor the Indians, nor the Chinese, encouraged foreign com... ... which lies any considerable way north of the Euxine and Caspian seas, the ancient Scythia, the modern T artary and Siberia, seem, in all ages of the ... ...erranean and Euxine seas in both Europe and Asia, and the gulfs of Arabia, Persia, India, Bengal, and Siam, in Asia, to carry maritime commerce into t... ...ons for this purpose. Iron was the common instrument of commerce among the ancient Spartans, copper among the ancient Romans, and gold and silver amon... ...estined for more necessary expenses. What Dercyllidas said of the court of Persia, may be applied to that of several European princes, that he saw the... ...of ancient Greece seem to have served in this manner till after the second Persian war; and the people of Peloponnesus till after the Peloponnesian wa... ...e would otherwise be by far too heavy a burden upon them. After the second Persian war, ac- cordingly, the armies of Athens seem to have been generall...

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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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... 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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... found wanting. 28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. 29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scar... ...n the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing... ... answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 13 Then answered they and said before the ... ... this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian. Chapter 7 I n the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Danie... ... speaking great things. 9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of... ...old, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14 And there was g... ...ame horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; 22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most Hi... ...be. 20 The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. 21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn t...

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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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.........................554 A Voice from Death...........................554 A Persian Lesson...............................556 The Commonplace............ ... summ’d, added up, In its eidolon. The old, old urge, Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles, From science and the mode... ...y faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths, Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern, Believing I shall ... ...f Egina bay. 6 I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India, I see the falling of the Ganges over the high ... ... the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn, I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions. I see the nameless masonries, venerable m... ...h horse herd watching your mares and stallions feeding! You beautiful bodied Persian at full speed in the saddle shooting arrows to the mark! You Chin... ... in building the buildings that last longer than any, Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindustanee, Served the mound raiser on the Mis... ...uildings that last longer than any, Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindustanee, Served the mound raiser on the Mississippi, served t... ... rolling, Upon this very scene. The dame of dames! can I believe then, Those ancient temples, sculptures classic, could none of them retain her? Nor s...

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...ussian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or sestertius from the ancient world, or one piastre from the new, without of- fering you anything... ...e it! “So you read Sanskrit fluently,” said the old man. “You have been in Persia perhaps, or in Bengal?” “No, sir,” said the stranger, as he felt the... ...least!” “So you want to discount heaven, a thoroughly commer- cial notion. Ancient religions were but the unchecked devel- opment of physical pleasure... ...nd gives free play to civilization, that Titan queen who has succeeded the ancient terrible figure of the king, that sham Providence, reared by man be... ...e of the Empire, appeared to be on the point of restoring to our house its ancient splendor. “The Restoration, while it brought back considerable prop... ...moirs are falling out of fashion.’ “‘What are the memoirs—contemporaneous, ancient, or memoirs of the court, or what?’ “‘They relate to the Necklace a... ....” “Yes, I know,” said the young man. “A very rare variety of ass found in Persia,” the naturalist continued, “the onager of the ancients, equus asinu... ... II., that these bizarre excesses are still devoutly believed in among the Persians and the Nogais as a sovereign remedy for lumbago and sciatic gout.... ...pared with the flight of birds; an onager, sir, would run the best Arab or Persian horses to death. Accord- ing to the father of the conscientious Doc...

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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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... Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin — Principle of Selec- tion anciently followed, its Effects —Methodical and Unconscious Selection — Unk... ...ecies to each other and to living species — On the state of development of ancient forms — On the suc- cession of the same types within the same areas... ... Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin — Principle of Selec- tion anciently followed, its Effects —Methodical and Unconscious Selection — Unk... ... existing domesticated productions have varied. In the case of most of our anciently domesticated animals and plants, I do not think it is possible to... ...n the multiple origin of our domestic animals is, that we find in the most ancient records, more especially on the monuments of Egypt, much diversity ... ...e- cially by the Hon. W. Elliot from India, and by the Hon. C. Murray from Persia. Many treatises in dif- ferent languages have been published on pige... ...iers and tumblers with these breeds as now existing in Britain, India, and Persia, we can, I think, clearly trace the stages through which they have i...

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...leafless now, a ghostly band Of skeletons in cold array. A lonely surge of ancient spray Told of an unforgetful sea, But iron blows had hushed for ... ...ase me everywhere I go, — Melchizedek, Ucalegon. Villanelle of Change Since Persia fell at Marathon, The yellow years have gathered fast: Long centu... ...ne. And yet (they say) the place will don A phantom fury of the past, Since Persia fell at Marathon; And as of old, when Helicon T rembled and swaye... ...mbled and swayed with rapture vast (Long centuries have come and gone), This ancient plain, when night comes on, Shakes to a ghostly battle blast, Si... ...ancient plain, when night comes on, Shakes to a ghostly battle blast, Since Persia fell at Marathon. But into soundless Acheron The glory of Greek s... ...he suns of Hellas have all shone, The first has fallen to the last: — Since Persia fell at Marathon, Long centuries have come and gone. 16 E.A. Robi... ...k pity on him and obeyed, And long stood looking where his hands had laid An ancient woman, shrunk to skin and bone. Far out beyond the forest I could... ...Was in their cheeks and women called them fair. Be sure, they met me with an ancient air, — And yes, there was a shop worn brotherhood About them; but... ...ng before The cruel threads of that black sail were spun, May loyal arms and ancient welcomings Receive him once again Who now no longer moves Here in...

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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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...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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...m, your laughter is more soft in mine ears than the singing of Bulbul in a Persian garden.’ Dr Porhoët interposed with introductions. The magician bow... ...t gravely. ‘ An odd thing happened once when he came to see me. I have two Persian cats, which are the most prop erly conducted of all their tribe. T... ...nothing divine in her save a sweet strange spirit of virginity. A lover in ancient Greece, who offered sacrifice before this fair image, might forget ... ...his usual calm. ‘I was telling these young people, when you came in, of an ancient Korân which I was given in Alexandria by a learned man whom I opera... ...e celebrated family of Bombast, and they were called Hohenheim after their ancient residence, which was a castle near Stuttgart in Würtemberg. The mos... ...get me to believe in occult phi losophy,’ she laughed. ‘Yet it reigned in Persia with the magi, it endowed India with wonderful traditions, it civili... ... night of these illusions.’ The words were hardly spoken when Matilde, the ancient bonne, opened the door to let a visitor come in. It was Arthur Burd... ...n him that the walls of the hall were decorated with all manner of armour, ancient swords of Eastern handiwork, barbaric weapons from central Africa, ...

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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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...alogues may be grouped; here philosophy reaches the highest point to which ancient thinkers ever attained. Plato among the Greeks, like Bacon among th... ...hysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences ... ...have told of a struggle for Liberty, intended to represent the conflict of Persia and Hellas. We may judge from the noble commencement of the Timaeus,... ... Hellas in greatness!” or, more probably, attributing the vic tory to the ancient good order of Athens and to the favor of Apollo and Athene. Again, ... ...e, and over man. Too much, however, has been made of this question both in ancient and in modern times. There is a stage of criticism in which all wo... ...ich all works, whether of nature or of art, are referred to design. Now in ancient writings, and indeed in literature generally, there remains often a...

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...e writes may be its ministers. Every one who is at all acquainted with the Persian mystics knows how wine may be regarded as an instrument of religion... ...f the subject, sadness and gladness have each been emphasized in turn. The ancient saying that the first maker of the Gods was fear receives volu- min... ...s freedom from all moral sophistry and strain, gives a pathetic dignity to ancient pagan feeling. And this quality Whitman’s outpourings have not got.... ..., it is true, to persons for whom the conception of salvation has lost its ancient theological meaning, but who labor nevertheless with the same etern... ...was strange was that this energy that came back was nothing new. It was my ancient juvenile force of faith, the belief that the sole purpose of my lif... ...e greatest part of the night in ecstasies of joy, praising and adoring the Ancient of Days for his free and unbounded grace. After I had been so long ... ...Abu-bekr, his brother-in-law. Vambery describes a der- vish whom he met in Persia, “who had solemnly vowed, thirty years before, that he would never e... ... arieties of Religious Experience cal tradition. The Sufis have existed in Persia from the earliest times, and as their pantheism is so at variance wi... ... quote a Moslem document, and pass away from the sub- ject. Al-Ghazzali, a Persian philosopher and theologian, who flourished in the eleventh century,...

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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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... 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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...od hates? XII. A suggestion of this common prayer has been re tained from ancient practice, when at the end of the sermon the Confession of Sins is s... ...skill in ruling than in all the books of law; as we read that the kings of Persia did, Esther vi. For examples and histories ben efit and teach more ...

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...ption of the argument. The subject-matter of them was a favourite topic of ancient writers, and the treatment is smoother and more orderly than elsewh... ...our account is a good one, at least according to this opinion, which is of ancient date, and accepted by those who profess philosophy. Rightly too are... ... everywhere the same force; fire, for instance, burns not here only but in Persia as well, but the Justs they see changed in various places. Now this ... ...piter Father because Kingship is intended to be a paternal rule. Among the Persians, however, the Father’s rule is Despotic, for they treat their Sons... ... is the Master’s interest): this now strikes me to be as it ought, but the Persian custom to be mistaken; because for different persons there should b...

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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...

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... joined with wealthy Arabs from the Kingdom and other states bordering the Persian Gulf in donating money to build mosques and religious schools that ... ...“Golden Chain, ” put together mainly by financiers in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states. Donations flowed through charities or other nongovern-... ...he Bin Ladin family . ” 69 One result was two NSC-led interagency trips to Persian Gulf states in 1999 and 2000. During these trips the NSC,Treasury, ... ...rnative was to fly from ships in the Arabian Sea or from land bases in the Persian Gulf, as was done after 9/11. Such operations would then have to be... ...n urged Nashiri to continue plotting strikes against U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf, Nashiri maintains that he actually delayed one of these proje... .... Al Qaeda frequently moved the money it raised by hawala, an informal and ancient trust-based system for transferring funds. 124 In some ways, al Qae...