My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia, Volume 2C. Scribner's sons, 1895 - Africa |
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Page 171 - Therefore thus saith the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Page 316 - ... battle: for he overthrew all the power of Arphaxad, and all his horsemen, and all his chariots, and became lord of his cities, and came unto Ecbatane, and took the towers, and spoiled the streets thereof, and turned the beauty thereof into shame. He took also Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, and smote him through with his darts, and destroyed him utterly that day.
Page 402 - Sadee to appre" hend from being turned into dust? he was but earth when alive. " He humbled himself to the ground, and, like the wind, he en" compassed the whole world. He will not continue dust long, " for the winds will scatter him over the whole universe. Yet as " long as the garden of science has bloomed, not a nightingale has " warbled so sweetly in it. It would be strange if such a nightin" gale should die, and not a rose grow upon its grave !"-|* Tavernier says his tomb was in a mosque.
Page 318 - Almamon, who gave away four fifths of the income of a province, a sum of two millions four hundred thousand gold dinars, before he drew his foot from the stirrup. At the nuptials of the same prince, a thousand pearls of the largest size were showered on the head of the bride (46), and a lottery of lands and houses displayed the capricious bounty of fortune.
Page 255 - And thus he warbled to the king — " Mazinderan is the bower of spring, My native home; the balmy air Diffuses health and fragrance there; So tempered is the genial glow, Nor heat nor cold we ever know; Tulips and hyacinths abound On every lawn; and all around Blooms like a garden in its prime, Fostered by that delicious clime.
Page 318 - ... but his train of camels, laden with snow, could serve only to astonish the natives of Arabia, and to refresh the fruits and liquors of the royal banquet.
Page 47 - Among the notables present were the Empress Eugenie, the Emperor of Austria, the Crown Prince of Prussia, the Viceroy of Egypt, the Prince and Princess Henry of the Netherlands, the British Ambassador at Constantinople, Right Hon.
Page 186 - If Croesus passes over the Halys, he shall destroy a great empire," which proved to be no other than his own.