12 illustration(s) from this book
Scene on the Arrival of the Troops of
Suleymán Sháh WHIMPER 538
The Horses sent to Suleymán Sháh GRAY 541
Tail-piece to Chapter VIII. WRIGHT & FOLKARD 543
Head-piece to Notes to Chapter VIII. LANDELLS 544
Tail-piece to Notes to Chapter VIII. GREEN 555
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INTRODUCTION.
_In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful._[i_1]
Praise be to God, the Beneficent King, the Creator of the universe, who
hath raised the heavens without pillars, and spread out the earth as a
bed;[i_2] and blessing and peace be on the lord of apostles, our
lord and our master Moḥammad, and his Family; blessing and peace,
enduring and constant, unto the day of judgment.
To proceed:--The lives of former generations are a lesson to posterity;
that a man may review the remarkable events which have happened to
others, and be admonished; and may consider the history of people of
preceding ages, and of all that hath befallen them, and be restrained.
Extolled be the perfection of Him who hath thus ordained the history of
former generations to be a lesson to those which follow. Such are the
Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, with their romantic stories and
their fables.