Armenians, Koords, and Turks, Volumen2S. Tinsley & Company, 1880 |
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Página 157 - I was advised by a sage to humble myself before God; to distrust my own strength; and never to despise the most contemptible foe. I have neglected these lessons; and my neglect has been deservedly punished. Yesterday, as from an eminence I beheld the numbers, the discipline, and the spirit, of my armies, the earth seemed to tremble under my feet; and I said in my heart, Surely thou art the king of the world, the greatest and most invincible of warriors. These armies are no longer mine; and, in the...
Página 166 - Where fields and fountains fresh could best engage. Toil was not then. Of nothing took they heed, But with wild beasts the silvan war to wage, And o'er vast plains their herds and flocks to feed; Blest sons of Nature they! true golden age indeed! XXXVIII. Sometimes the pencil, in cool airy halls, Bade the gay bloom of vernal landscapes rise, Or Autumn's varied shades imbrown the walls: Now the black tempest strikes th...
Página 230 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Página 158 - O YE WHO HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF ALP ARSLAN EXALTED TO THE HEAVENS, REPAIR TO MARU, AND YOU WILL BEHOLD IT BURIED IN THE DUST 1 " Thé annihilation of the inscription, and the tomb itself, more forcibly proclaims the instability of human greatness.
Página 51 - At this they all set a running, the Rear-guard as well as the rest, and the Beasts of Burden, and Horses were driven forward. When they were all come up to the Top of the Mountain, they embraced one another, and also their Generals and Captains with Tears in their Eyes.
Página 52 - Men very drunk, and those, who eat much, like Mad-men, and some like dying Persons. In this Condition great Numbers lay upon the Ground, as if there had been a Defeat, and the Sorrow was general: The next Day, none of them died, but recovered their Senses, about the same Hour they were seized, and the third, and fourth Day, they got up as if they had taken Physic. From thence they made, in two Days...
Página 232 - A rarat was of those of Erivan and Bayazed. The impression made by Ararat upon the mind of every one who has any sensibility for the stupendous works of the Creator, is wonderful and overpowering ; and many a traveller of genius and taste has employed both the powers of the pen and of the pencil in attempts to portray this impression. But the consciousness that no description, no representation, can reach the sublimity of the object thus attempted to be depicted, must prove to the candid mind that,...
Página 50 - The fifth day they arrived at the holy mountain called Theches. As soon as the men who were in the vanguard ascended the mountain and saw the sea, they gave a great shout ; which when Xenophon and those in the rear heard, they concluded that some other enemies attacked them in front ; for the people belonging to the country they had...
Página 76 - Some of the men also, who had lost their sight by the snow, or whose toes were rotted oil' by the intenseness of the cold, were left behind. The eyes were relieved against the snow by wearing something black before them, and the feet against the cold, by continual motion, and by pulling off their shoes in the night. If any slept with their shoes on, the...
Página 73 - Their houses were under ground ; the mouth resembling that of a well, but spacious below : there was an entrance dug for the cattle, but the inhabitants descended by ladders. In these houses were goats, sheep, cows, and fowls, with their young, All the cattle were maintained within doors with fodder.