Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia: Including a Journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the Ancient Ecbatana, Researches in Ispahan and the Ruins of Persepolis, and Journey from Thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the Seashore; Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat; Narrative of an Expedition Against the Pirates of the Persian Gulf, with Illustrations of the Voyage of Nearchus, and Passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay, Հատոր 1Colburn, 1830 |
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Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia: Including a Journey from ..., Հատոր 1 James Silk Buckingham Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1830 |
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Էջ 145 - Legislature, abrogating the supreme law which requires us to " do unto others as we would they should do unto us...
Էջ 270 - Taurus, and pay a yearly fine of 2000 talents to the Romans. His revenues being unable to pay the fine, he attempted to plunder the temple of Belus in Susiana, which so incensed the inhabitants, that they killed him with his followers, 187 years before the Christian era.
Էջ 248 - Marching away from hence, she came to Chaone, a city of Media, where she encamped upon a rising ground, from whence she took notice of an exceeding great and high rock, where she made another very great garden, in the middle of the rock, and built upon it stately houses of pleasure, whence she might both have a delightful prospect into the garden, and view the army as they lay encamped below in the plain.
Էջ 296 - I call upon thee, tliou art with me; thy holy presence secures me from all evil. " My heart is at ease, and my fear of thee increases. My life became, through thy goodness, at the last full of peace.
Էջ 151 - First, we shall find it to have been so generally practised, so highly esteemed in Crete, that such of their well-born and beautiful youths as never had any Lovers, incurred the public censure, as persons some way or other faulty in their morals ; as if nothing else could hinder but that some one's affections would...
Էջ 50 - Dastagerd, and, though much of the treasure had been removed, and much had been expended, the remaining wealth appears to have exceeded their hopes, and even to have satiated their avarice.
Էջ 164 - Explanaof a similar kind, related as happening be- iion tween persons who had often been pointed out to me in Arabia and Persia, I could no longer doubt the existence in the East of an affection for male youths, of as pure and honorable a kind as that which is felt in Europe for those of the other sex . . . and it would be as unjust to suppose that this necessarily implied impurity of desire as to contend that no one could admire a lovely countenance and a beautiful form in the other sex, and still...
Էջ 191 - ... and lays on fresh coats of the dye, on the nails, the hands, and the feet. Some of these beard-plastered elders, fresh from the hands of their attendants, look oddly enough, with different shades of red, black, and grey in their beards ; for it takes a day or two, according to the quality of the hair, to produce an uniform blackness ; and this requires to be renewed every week at least, to look well, as the roots of...
Էջ 99 - Cossseans, who refused to submit to his government, says : — " This people are a very warlike nation, and inhabit the hilly and mountainous parts of Media ; and therefore, confiding in their own valour, and the fastnesses of their country, would never be brought to admit of any foreign prince to reign over them, and were never subdued during all the time of the Persian Empire. And at that time they were so very high, that they slighted the valour of the Macedonians. Alexander, however, conquered...
Էջ 395 - ... striking illustration than from the scene before us ; and the gorgeous splendour of the dome, beneath which it was witnessed, added powerfully to its effect. Some of the mosques at Cairo are exceedingly fine, and preserve perhaps some of the best specimens of the Saracenic architecture that exist. The mosque of Omar, which stands on the site of the old Jewish temple of Solomon at Jerusalem, has a noble aspect from without. That at Damascus, which was formerly a Christian cathedral, is beautiful,...