Institutes Political and MilitaryAt the Clarendon-Press, 1781 - 408 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 269 - Thus, too, in the Institutes of Tirnour, p. 269 : " He only is equal to stations of power and dignity, who is well acquainted with the military art, and with the various modes of breaking and defeating hostile armies." The same turn of mind is shown in the frequency and evident delight with which Homer relates battles — a peculiarity noticed in Mure's Greek Literature, vol. ii. pp. 63, 64, where an attempt is made to turn it into an argument to prove that the Homeric poems are all by the same author...
الصفحة xlvii - ... in the plains, in the vegetation of the trees, in the various fpecies of living creatures, in the waters, and in food provided for the fupport of life. Thou, who deftroyeft all which eat the food and drink the waters ; who art amidft the guardians of the highways and in the places of...
الصفحة xlviii - I always was, I always am, I always shall be. There is no other, so that I can say to you, 'I am like him.
الصفحة 161 - Fifthly ; I gave encouragement to my ameers, and to my soldiers, and with money and with jewels I made them glad of heart ; and I permitted them to come into the banquet ; and in the field of blood they hazarded their lives.
الصفحة 351 - It is the idea of men being diverted from the immediate struggle and immediate needs for the natural, rational development of the human race; and securing day by day and week by week and month by month and year by year, a little to-day, a little to-morrow, adding, adding, gaining, gaining, moving forward, every step in advance, and never taking one receding step except it be to plant the foot forward firmer than ever before. I would not want any man to believe...
الصفحة 157 - ... of my dominions, I have collected together those regulations and laws as a model for others ; to the end, that every one of my children, descendants and posterity, acting agreeably thereto, my power and empire, which I acquired through hardships, and difficulties, and perils, and bloodshed, by the divine favour and by the influence of the holy religion of Mahomed, ( God's peace be upon him ) and with the assistance of the powerful descendants and illustrious followers of that prophet, may be...
الصفحة 211 - By the vizzeers, and the secretaries, and the scribes, I gave order and regularity to my public councils : I made them the keepers of the mirror of my government, in which they showed unto me the affairs of my empire, and the concerns of my armies and my people : And they kept rich my treasury ; and they secured plenty and prosperity to my soldiers and to my subjects ; and by proper and skilful measures they repaired the disorders incident...
الصفحة 167 - I listened not to their insinuations to the prejudice of others. " Eighthly ; I acted with resolution ; and on whatever undertaking I resolved, I made that undertaking the only object of my attention ; and I withdrew not my hand from that enterprise until I had brought it to a conclusion. And I acted according to that which I said. And I dealt not with severity towards any one ; and I was not oppressive in any of my actions ; that God Almighty might not deal severely towards me, nor render my own...
الصفحة xlviii - ME is the. inward offence, and the exterior fubftance, of all things. I am the primitive caufe of all. All things that exift in the eaft, or weft, or north, or fouth, above or below, it is I. I am all. I am older than all.
الصفحة 55 - they were overwhelmed with joy; and they alighted from their horses; and they came and kneeled; and they kissed my stirrup. I also came down from my horse, and took each of them in my arms. And I put my turban on the head of the...