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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BUILDING OP BAGDAT. The Caliph Almansur was one of the most magnificent princes of his House; and to courage and talents he joined a thousand other shining qualities. He was just, generous, and humane; and there never was any one who could exceed him in candour or liberality: but at the same time he had one great fault, which was, indeed, occasioned by his being sovereign of the world. He was amazingly proud, ?not in his deportment, truly, for there was no man more condescending; hut in his ideas. He fancied that all the human race were made but for his gratification; and took it into his head that not only their persons but even their minds were at his disposal, and that he might rule them as he liked. Now as it happened that he had the most agreeable countenance in the world, and also a very engaging manner, it seldom occurred that people were of a different way of thinking; but sometimes it fell out otherwise, and some were found hardy enough to contradict him, which he could not bear at all. This fault would no doubt have caused his ruin, if his amazing pride had not been cured by what we are about to hear. Mr. Kinneir, in his Memoir of the Persian Empire (a work distinguished at qnce for its elegance and accuracy), gives the following account of this city. Bagdad was founded by Al Mansaur, second Caliph of the House of Abbas, in the hundred and forty-fifth year of the Hegira, on the western bank of the Tigris, and is reported to have been built out of the ruins of Ctesiphon. It was adorned with many noble and stately edifices by the grandeur of its founder. The renowned Haroun al Rashid, who also built on the eastern side of the river, connected the two quarters of the town by a bridge of boats. Indeed the city may be said to have attained its meridian splendou...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458938657
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458938654
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 150 gr


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