“The” Ansayrii, and the Assassins: With Travels in the Further East, in 1850-51 : Including a Visit to Nineveh, Volumen2R. Bentley, 1851 |
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Abdallah Allah Arabs Armenian arrived Badazet baggage Bairbout BARTELLA bas-reliefs Bitlis built buried castle Chaldean Christian church Circassian Constantinople consul convent corn covered Djebel Doctor dress earth East Eastern EMPIRE OF TREBIZOND encamped Erzeroum excavations fever Giaour girl hadjee half Herodotus hills Hormuzd Rassam horsemen horses huge Jebour journey kavass Khan Koordish Koords Koyunjik labour lake Layard Lazistan live look lovely Mahomet Mashallah Montselim mosque Mosul mound mountains Mussulmans native Nimroud Nineveh numbers Pasha passed Patnos perhaps Persian piastres pitched plain pleasure poor pretty probably quarantine rest ride river road rock rode roofs round ruins Samsun sects seemed serai servants Sheik Mattie sick side Sippara Stamboul stone stood stream Sultan Tamerlane tanzimat tent terrace Tiyari town traveller Trebizond tribe Turk Turkish veil village walls whole wine women workmen Xenophon
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Página 127 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Página 175 - ... men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
Página 4 - Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Página 25 - He sang of battles, and the breath Of stormy war, and violent death; And should, methinks, when all was past, Have rightfully been laid at last Where rocks were rudely heaped, and rent As by a spirit turbulent; Where sights were rough, and sounds were wild, And everything unreconciled...
Página 8 - This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, " I am, and there is none beside me:" how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in ! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Página 4 - They will ask thee concerning wine and lots: Answer, in both there is great sin, and also some things of use unto men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use.
Página 53 - Christian families were transplanted, to perish or to propagate in the distant provinces of Persia. Under the rod of oppression, the zeal of the Armenians is fervent and intrepid : they have often preferred the crown of martyrdom to the white turban of Mahomet ; they devoutly hate the error and idolatry...
Página 9 - Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Página 237 - So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it ; 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning...
Página 111 - Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous déplaît pas.