Journey to the North of India: Overland from England, Through Russia, Persia, and AffghaunistaunR. Bentley, 1834 |
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Abbas Abdoollah Affghaun Allee Khan appeared Arabs arrack Astrabad Attruk Bábek begged Bokhara Bostam bread Caliph called camels camp caravansera Cazee chaoushes cloth crowd desert Doguedi friends Goorgaun guests Hâjee halted hands Hazaureh head Heraut holy honour horses Hossein Kouli Aga houses hundred Imaum Istakour Jaffer journey kafilah kajavahs Kamraun Karazm Khiva Khorassaun Koord Korân Koul latter looked Mecca Meerza merchants Meshed Meshed-e-Misreaun Meshed-e-Norouz miles Mohummud Khan Mohummud Kouli Mohummudan Moollâ Mooselmaun morning mosque muezzin Neshaboore night Norooz Oosbegs Orauz Kouli oubeh ourselves Oxus party passed Peerwullee Peerwullee's Persian Persian language pilgrims prayers Prince province Reza road rode round Russian seated sent Shah Shah's Shahrood Sheahs Sirdar Soonnee Subzawar Syud Syud's Tabreez Tehraun tent thought tion told tomauns took Toork Toorkmuns town travelled tribe village Vuzeer wished women wullee Yimoots
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Стр. 167 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Стр. 323 - God is great. I bear witness that there is no God but God. I bear witness that there is no God but God.
Стр. 245 - For, oh, if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ; One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss : And oh...
Стр. 159 - ... and when he had guests, went round himself to pour water on their hands, and ate from the same bowl with them. He had a donkey of no price, which he would ride without a saddle through the streets of Bokhara, and the common people, charmed by this show of humility, thought that there never had been so single-hearted a man ; but many stories which are related of him show how much worldly sagacity lay under his assumed simplicity.
Стр. 9 - I may mention that, early one morning, we came upon a regiment of infantry bivouacked in regular order upon the snow. The Russians do not yet command free passage through the Caucasus ; for they are obliged to be very vigilant against surprise by the Circassian sons of the mist, who still cherish the bitterest hatred against them.
Стр. 303 - They may not pass the pale of the sanctuary, neither may they put foot within the college-squares in which good men are buried; on their clothes, however new, they must wear a patch at the breast ; their caps must not be of the same form as those worn by true believers, and they dare not return abuse, much less a blow given by a Mohummudan...
Стр. 413 - The Supreme Emperor," — that the Rus' sian Autocrat gave the law to the kings of Europe.' ' Wonderful ' things,' he proceeds, ' were asserted of the Oroos, particularly ' about their military deeds. Shumsoodeen Khan, among other ' things, told the company that no fort could hold out against ' this people ; for that they never stopped at a ditch, marching ' soldiers into it until it was filled, and so on, over their heads, ' to the storm : and our host, whom I had credited for better ' sense, said...
Стр. 159 - ... actions to display his humility. He surrounded himself with a court of devout and learned doctors, to whose opinion he professed to bow, and assisted by whom he used to sit in open durbar, to >udge the people according to the principles of the Mohummudan law.
Стр. 304 - SYNAGOGUE. to pay a few reals, the crowd looking on as Englishmen do at badger-baiting, and thinking it capital sport. We attended the Jewish synagogue one Saturday, and the Rabbis were so captivated by the Syud's unprecedentedly liberal opinions, that they made a point of showing all that they thought would interest us. The synagogue was a square room, on two sides of which was a gallery, with a lattice skreen-work for the women to sit behind.