The Ansayrii, (or Assassins,): With Travels in the Further East, in 1850-51. Including a Visit to Ninevah, Volume 3R. Bentley, 1851 |
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Abdallah Aleppo Allah Amanus Ameer amidst Ansayrii Antioch Arab arrived Batroun beauty begged Beyrout building built called castle Christians church consul cultivated Damascus descended district Djebel Djisser door dressed east entered faith families father feet Franks gardens Gebaile Greek groves height hill honour horses hundred Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants inscription Kadmous Kalaat kavass Koords land Latakia Mahomet Maronites Merkab Mockatta Moslem mosque Mosul mountains Moutselim Mussulman Nahr nargilleh natives nizam Orontes passed perhaps piastres pillars plain poor portion pretty priest remains ride road rode round ruins Safyta sarcophagi sect seemed sent servants Sheik Hassan Shogger side stands stone story stream Sultan Syria tained Tartousa told tomb tower town trees Tripoli Turkish Turkoman Turks valley vaulted village wall whole wild women Yezidis Zapties
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Page 8 - And it shall be upon Aaron to minister : and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
Page 112 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! — No tears Dim the sweet look that nature wears.
Page 198 - Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Page 416 - The sunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must weep, The tender azure of the unruffled deep, The orange tints that gild the greenest bough, The torrents that from cliff to valley leap, The vine on high, the willow branch below, Mix'd in one mighty scene, with varied beauty glow.
Page 457 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Page 9 - Campanae were given them; the one referring to the city, the other to the country; though others say they took the latter of these names, not from their being invented in Campania, but because it was...
Page 377 - FEVER. 377 girl had been given me ; being rather at a loss how to dispose of such a present, I gave her to the Mazar. This is a common custom among fathers ; they dedicate, before or after birth, their children to particular saints ; these, when of an age are made to labour for the saint, either on the property pertaining to his tomb or in some other -way, for the benefit of the deceased. Girls thus vowed have a hard life of it, and it is a controverted question whether they may marry or not ; but...
Page 345 - They are a fine, large race, with more bone and muscle than is generally found among Orientals ; browner than the Osmanlee, but lighter, fairer than the Arab ; brown hair is not by any means uncommon. The women, when young, are handsome, often fair with light hair and jet black eyes ; or the rarer beauty of fair eyes and coal-black hair or eye-brows ; but exposure to the sun, and the labours they perform, soon wear them out.
Page 344 - Ismaelians24 of Persia, may be considered as a service to mankind. Among the hills to the south of the Caspian, these odious sectaries had reigned with impunity above a hundred and sixty years; and their prince, or Imam, established his lieutenant to lead and govern the colony of mount Libanus, so famous and formidable in the history of the...
Page 346 - The traveller will see these poor girls staggering along under a load of wood a horse would hardly carry, and the child being suckled until two, or even four years of age, naturally tends to weaken the mother, who has thus, perhaps, on very insufficient diet, to support three from her breast. In dress the Ansayrii are Turks. According to the expression of the country they dress thus, as they regard white as their sacred colour, and deem it essential to be clothed in it. White turban, or cloth wrapped...