The Bakhtyar Nama: A Persian RomanceW. Burns, printer] Priv. print., 1883 - 232 pages |
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... Sindibād cycle of tales . It has for ages been popular in the East , though to the average English reader the very name of Prince Bakhtyar is unknown . Many years ago the learned Orientalist Sir W. Ouseley presented his country- men ...
... Sindibād cycle of tales . It has for ages been popular in the East , though to the average English reader the very name of Prince Bakhtyar is unknown . Many years ago the learned Orientalist Sir W. Ouseley presented his country- men ...
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... Sindibād ' ... II - The Bakhtyar Nāma and its Versions THE BAKHTYĀR NĀMA . CHAPTER I. History of King Āzādbakht and the Vizier's Daughter CHAPTER II . Story of the Ill - Fated Merchant and his Adventures CHAPTER III . Story of the ...
... Sindibād ' ... II - The Bakhtyar Nāma and its Versions THE BAKHTYĀR NĀMA . CHAPTER I. History of King Āzādbakht and the Vizier's Daughter CHAPTER II . Story of the Ill - Fated Merchant and his Adventures CHAPTER III . Story of the ...
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... SINDIBĀD . HE Persians , like all Eastern nations , remarks Sir John Malcolm , " delight in Tales , Fables , and Apothegms ; the reason of which appears obvious for where liberty is unknown , and where power in all its shapes is ...
... SINDIBĀD . HE Persians , like all Eastern nations , remarks Sir John Malcolm , " delight in Tales , Fables , and Apothegms ; the reason of which appears obvious for where liberty is unknown , and where power in all its shapes is ...
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... Sindibād , of which there have For example : before one story ( 1 ) is ended another ( 2 ) is begun , and before it is finished another ( 3 ) , springing out of the second , is commenced ; then out of story 3 springs yet another story ...
... Sindibād , of which there have For example : before one story ( 1 ) is ended another ( 2 ) is begun , and before it is finished another ( 3 ) , springing out of the second , is commenced ; then out of story 3 springs yet another story ...
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... Sindi- bād was an Indian philosopher who lived about a hundred years B.C. El - Mas'udi does not mention the version ... Sindibād to Sindibar , Deslongchamps conjectures to be a mis- take of the copyist , the Hebrew letters D and R being ...
... Sindi- bād was an Indian philosopher who lived about a hundred years B.C. El - Mas'udi does not mention the version ... Sindibād to Sindibar , Deslongchamps conjectures to be a mis- take of the copyist , the Hebrew letters D and R being ...
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Abraha Abū Saber Abū Temām Abyssinia accordingly accused Aleppo ambassadors Arabian Nights Arabian text Arabic arrived astrologer attendants Āzādbakht back to prison Bahrām Bakht Bakhtyar Basra beauty Bihzād boys brought camel Cazotte Cazotte's CHAPTER chief consent damsel daughter of Kāmgār death declared desert desired dinars Eastern English execution eyes Farrukhsuwar father favours gave orders Habicht's happened harem History immediately informed innocence inquired Irāk jeweller journey judicial astrology Kaisar Kārdār King of Persia King of Yemen King ordered King's Kirman Kur'an lacs of dinars lady Lescallier lithographed text Majesty Merchant monarch Muslim Ouseley Ouseley's palace patience pearls person prayer present Prince Princess punishment Queen rendering replied resolved returned robbers romance royal Rūm says seized sent servants Sindibād Sipahsālār slave story stranger stratagem Sultan summer-house thee thou throne tion told translation treasury village Vizier wife William Ouseley wine young Zangībār
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Page 202 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray...
Page 225 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page xl - The Bakhtyar Nameh, or Story of Prince Bakhtyar and the Ten Viziers. A series of Persian Tales.
Page 229 - Then said Saul to his servant, But behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man ? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God : what have we...
Page 152 - that prayer carries us half-way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms procure us admission.
Page 174 - Some exceptions, that can neither be dissembled nor eluded, render this mode of reasoning as indiscreet as it is superfluous: the kingdom of Yemen has been successively subdued by the Abyssinians, the Persians, the Sultans of...
Page 149 - Ahaseurus takes his signet off his hand, and gives it first to Haman, and again to Mordecai : and Herodotus notices that each of the Babylonians wore a seal-ring. The Greeks and Romans had their rings curiously engraved with devices, and that cast by Polycrates into the sea was the work of an engraver whose name the historian has not thought unworthy of commemoration.
Page xvii - A poet went to the chief of a band of robbers and recited a panegyric upon him. He commanded them to strip off his clothes and turn him out of the village. The dogs, too, attacked him in the rear. He wanted to take up a stone, but the ground was frozen. Unable to do anything, he said, " What a villainous set are these, who have untied their dogs and tied up the stones." The chieftain heard this from a window, and said with a laugh, " Philosopher ! ask a boon of me.
Page 228 - It is counted uncivil to visit in this country without an offering in hand. All great men expect it as a kind of tribute due to their character and authority ; and look upon themselves as affronted, and indeed defrauded, when this compliment is omitted.
Page 138 - ... one to consult, let him return to his wife, and consult her; and whatever she advises him to do, let him do the contrary : so shall he proceed rightly in his affair, and attain his object."03...