The Ansayrii, (or Assassins,): With Travels in the Further East, in 1850-51. Including a Visit to Ninevah, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1851 |
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Page 153
... encampment strewn with fire - blackened stones , bones and well picked carcases . Storks and painted quails sauntered slowly away at our approach , or perched and looked as if they ques- tioned our right to pass . At eight o'clock ...
... encampment strewn with fire - blackened stones , bones and well picked carcases . Storks and painted quails sauntered slowly away at our approach , or perched and looked as if they ques- tioned our right to pass . At eight o'clock ...
Page 248
... encampment . Seeing the animal I rode was of value , they hobbled him with iron hobbles , secured with a padlock , and at last , not satisfied of his safety , locked him up in the house . If the proper pro- nunciation of the name of the ...
... encampment . Seeing the animal I rode was of value , they hobbled him with iron hobbles , secured with a padlock , and at last , not satisfied of his safety , locked him up in the house . If the proper pro- nunciation of the name of the ...
Page 263
... encampment , and passed the village of Kurdagee on our right ; in one hour and a half passed Jorkadeir , and in three hours forty - five minutes passed Orrull on our right , and Negaar , and also some others . We had no small ado either ...
... encampment , and passed the village of Kurdagee on our right ; in one hour and a half passed Jorkadeir , and in three hours forty - five minutes passed Orrull on our right , and Negaar , and also some others . We had no small ado either ...
Page 268
... encampment . The ascent gained , a large undulating plain is before us ; the ridge we stand on slopes downward , and , midst its undulations , the father of waters rolls his glistening coils . All toils are repaid at last . " No small ...
... encampment . The ascent gained , a large undulating plain is before us ; the ridge we stand on slopes downward , and , midst its undulations , the father of waters rolls his glistening coils . All toils are repaid at last . " No small ...
Page 273
... encampment ; so turning up off the road to where they stood , we had hardly got beneath their welcome shelter , before the rain poured down in torrents . The head - man of the encampment VOL . L T 274 BAGGAGE HORSES STRAYED . displayed ...
... encampment ; so turning up off the road to where they stood , we had hardly got beneath their welcome shelter , before the rain poured down in torrents . The head - man of the encampment VOL . L T 274 BAGGAGE HORSES STRAYED . displayed ...
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Aintab Aleppo amidst ancient Ansayrii antique appears Arabs arches Armenian arrived baggage banks bazaars beauty Bedawee beneath Beyrout built called carpets castle Christians church Constantinople curious Dahhal Damascus Desert Diarbekr Djebel dress East Eastern encampment entered Euphrates feet fellow gardens gate half Hamath hand handsome Haran hill Homs horses houses huge Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants inscription khan Koords Latakia Mahomet mare Maronite minaret Montselim Moslem mosque Mosul mountains Mussulman nargilleh native night Orfa ornamented passed perhaps piastres pipe plain poor portions prayer pretty probably Prophet river road rock rode round ruins Saphi Saracenic seemed servants sheik sherbets side Sidon smoke spot Stamboul standing stone Sultan Syria tents Terah tobacco tombs tower town traveller trees tribe trousers Turkish Turkomans Turks village visited walk walls whole wild women
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Page 69 - Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted : they have torn me, and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Page 154 - The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.
Page 221 - And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
Page 125 - ... ought, if you can, to go on the first and hold back the bough of the rose-tree. And through this wilderness there tumbles a loud rushing stream, which is halted at last in the lowest corner of the garden, and there tossed up in a fountain by the side of the simple alcove. This is all. Never for an instant will the people of Damascus attempt to separate the idea of bliss from these wild gardens and rushing waters.
Page 184 - See the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very tombs now vanished like their dead!
Page 354 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing mill be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Page 55 - Of those who have made a schism in their religion, and are divided into various sects, every sect rejoice in their own opinion.
Page 224 - Go to her tomb and there thou wilt find a weed. Pluck it, place it in a reed, and inhale the smoke as you put fire to it. This will be to you wife and mother, father and brother, and, above all, will be a wise counsellor and teach thy soul wisdom and thy spirit joy.
Page 214 - That in the latter days there should be men who should bear the name of Moslems, but should not be really such; and that they should smoke a certain weed, which should be called TOBACCO." However, the eastern nations are generally so addicted to both, that they say, "A dish of coffee and a pipe of tobacco are a complete entertainment;" and the Persians have a proverb that coffee without tobacco...
Page 55 - Be constant in prayer, and give alms ; and what good ye have sent before for your souls, ye shall find it with God; surely God seeth that which ye do.