A Boswell of BaghdadGeorge H. Doran Company, 1917 - 245 sidor |
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Abd Allah Ibn Abu l-Aina Abu l-Hasan Ad-Dawlat admirable Al-Muhallabi Al-Mutawakkil Allah As-Suli asked Baghdad Bakr beauty Chittagong comic death delight dirhems Dorothy Perkins dragon Dutt E. V. LUCAS English exclaimed eyes face famous François Bonvin funny George Ginger give Golden Legend grammar grammarian hand Harry Clifton heard high bicycle honour horse humour Ibn Abd Ibn Khallikan Ibn Zuhr Jaafar joke kadi khalif Koran Kuthaiyr lady legs letter live look mean ment Muhammad never night nurses Obaid Allah ordered Paddington Green passed perhaps person pied-à-terre poem poet poetry Poilu praise Pretty Polly Perkins prince Puttenham family Ramkinoo recited Red Hair replied Rupert Brooke says Ibn Khallikan scent sing Sir Jonathan Puttenham Sissah Six-foot-two soldier songs Stacey Morris story tell thee there's things thou thought tion to-day verses vizier wonderful words Yahya
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Sida 159 - Sleep; and high places; footprints in the dew; And oaks; and brown horse-chestnuts, glossy-new; And new-peeled sticks; and shining pools on grass; — All these have been my loves. And these shall pass, Whatever passes not, in the great hour, Nor all my passion, all my prayers, have power To hold them with me through the gate of Death. They'll play deserter, turn with the traitor breath, Break the high bond we made, and sell Love's trust And sacramented covenant to the dust.
Sida 199 - I have also been informed that the American (198) publisher has dedicated this translation to an American. I have no objection to the book being dedicated to an American, but in doing this without my consent the publisher has transgressed the bounds of decency. I have never dedicated a book to any man, and if I dedicated this, I should choose the man whose name seemed to me most worthy to be joined to that of the Roman soldier and philosopher.
Sida 198 - I have been informed that an American publisher has printed the first edition of this translation of M. Antoninus. I do not grudge him his profit, if he has made any. There may be many men and women in the United States who will be glad to read the thoughts of the Roman emperor. If the American politicians, as they are called, would read them also, I should be much pleased, but I do not think the emperor's morality would suit their taste. "I have also been informed that the American publisher has...
Sida 111 - Christ. She said: For God's sake, good knight, go your way, and abide not with me, for ye may not deliver me. Thus as they spake together the dragon appeared and came running to them, and St. George was upon his horse, and drew out his sword and garnished him with the sign of the cross, and rode hardily against the dragon which came toward him, and smote him with his spear and hurt him sore and threw him to the ground.
Sida 45 - The vizir, on reading the note, recollected the circumstance, and, moved with the joy of doing a generous action, he ordered seven hundred dirhims to be given to the writer, and inscribed these words on the paper: The similitude of those who lay out their substance in the service of God, is as a grain of corn which has produced seven ears and in every ear a hundred grains ; for God giveth many-fold to whom he pleaseth (1).
Sida 199 - I have never dedicated a book to any man, and if I dedicated this, I should choose the man whose name seemed to me most worthy to be joined to that of the Roman soldier and philosopher. I might dedicate the book to the successful general who is now...
Sida 26 - Moslim people. The necessity of distinguishing the genuine Traditions from the false gave rise to new branches of literature. A just appreciation of the credit to which each Traditionist was entitled could only be formed from a knowledge of his moral character, and this could be best estimated from an examination of his life. Hence the numerous biographical works arranged in chronological order and containing short accounts of the principal Traditionists and doctors of the law, with the indication...
Sida 93 - So many years," replied the other, mentioning a great number. Jaafar then said to the khalif: "Put him to death, and you will be thus assured " that he is equally mistaken respecting the length of your life and that of his
Sida 25 - Traditions — one which said that " war consists of stratagems and deceits ; " and the other to the following purport, " Every lie shall be written down as a lie by the recording angels, with the exception of three : a lie told in order to reconcile two men, a lying promise made by a man to his wife, and a lie in which a man engaged in war makes a promise or a threat.".
Sida 68 - ... grain in the first square, two in the second, four in the third, eight in the fourth, and so on, until he comes to the last square, placing in each square double the number contained in the preceding one. I was doubtful of the contention that the final amount could be as great as was said, but when I met one of the accountants employed at Alexandria, I received from him a demonstration which convinced me that their statement was true: he placed before me a sheet of paper, on which he had calculated...