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Translated from the original Persian of MAHOMED KASIM FERISHTA . Ny John Briggs , Lieuto - Colonel in the Madras Army , & c . & c . 4 Vols . 8vo . 41. 45 . " Colonel Briggs's book is one of those which belong to the library as a ...
Translated from the original Persian of MAHOMED KASIM FERISHTA . Ny John Briggs , Lieuto - Colonel in the Madras Army , & c . & c . 4 Vols . 8vo . 41. 45 . " Colonel Briggs's book is one of those which belong to the library as a ...
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... carried to Babylon , and there kept in captivity for 70 years , till restored by Cyrus , King of Persia . ... and , during the reign of the Persian kings , lived in the form of a commonwealth , enjoying a comparative peace for 300 ...
... carried to Babylon , and there kept in captivity for 70 years , till restored by Cyrus , King of Persia . ... and , during the reign of the Persian kings , lived in the form of a commonwealth , enjoying a comparative peace for 300 ...
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Sufficient fair their state , by Romans told , When the fam'd Persian monarchs 1_liberal too ! Mutual good will . Would neither injure , no ! nor e'en withhold , Their aid and support from the humble Jew ; Who loath'd not in his turn ...
Sufficient fair their state , by Romans told , When the fam'd Persian monarchs 1_liberal too ! Mutual good will . Would neither injure , no ! nor e'en withhold , Their aid and support from the humble Jew ; Who loath'd not in his turn ...
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Nor had these men of Macedon " , who came , And , spite of Memnon ?, laid proud Persia low , Less mercy for a people , whom the scheme Of the Almighty had decreed should know His will divine , midst all the Pagan show And worldly vanity ...
Nor had these men of Macedon " , who came , And , spite of Memnon ?, laid proud Persia low , Less mercy for a people , whom the scheme Of the Almighty had decreed should know His will divine , midst all the Pagan show And worldly vanity ...
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... now Rasalgate , held on their course to the coast of Persia , either direct to Pattala , now Talla , at the head ... and the communication of the Eastern Empire with the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf was cut off by the conquests of ...
... now Rasalgate , held on their course to the coast of Persia , either direct to Pattala , now Talla , at the head ... and the communication of the Eastern Empire with the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf was cut off by the conquests of ...
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| Title | Fitz-Raymond; Or, The Rambler on the Rhine: A Metrico- Political Sketch of Past and Present Times |
| Author | Sir Whitelaw Ainslie |
| Publisher | A. Black, 1831 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 12 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 200 pages |
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