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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: SECTION IV. BEGINNING OF HISTORY.?PERSIA. From the oldest times we possess only fragments, which consist partly of poems misunderstood, and partly of uncertain successions of kings. We propose to confine ourselves to those nations who have exercised the greatest influence upon the fates of Europe. Within this limit Persia may well hold the first place; a region of high culture from the earliest age, where traces of the pure religion of Zerdusht, which he brought among the nations from Mount Albordi, may still be recognized. The people who inhabit the southern side of the great ridge of hills have ever displayed greater inventive powers and greater constancy in preserving their institutions than the tribes who dwell to the northward: the former of these endowments they owe to the ease and leisure afforded them by a more propitious climate, and by their practice of temperance; the latter to their settled / habits, not being prompted by a restless spirit to a migratory life. The remains of the ancient Persian capital Estakhar, as well as those of the Egyptian Laksor f, and the ruins on the hither peninsula of India, bear the expression of majestic grandeur, and of a noble desire to hand down to futurity eternal memorials of certain great truths or remarkable events. These elevated feelings cannot be the effect of climate; otherwise they could not fail still to exhibit a like influence in the same countries, where instead of ancient simplicity and grandeur, a fondness for singularity and false refinement is now displayed. Was man being nearer to his origin conscious of a higher rank in nature? Did he think less on the enjoyments of sense, and more on that which endures for ever ? In reality, the palaces of Dshemshid and Osyman- dyas are as widely distinguished from that of ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459030275
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Edition: Abridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 245 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1459030273
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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