 A SHORT HISTORY OF PERSIA FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT CENTURY. THE PREFACE. No characters are more confpicuous in hiftory, or excite greater admiration in the generality of readers, than thofe of celebrated warriours and conquerors : we fuppofe...  The Works of Sir William Jones - Page 305by William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 484 pages
...LIFE OF NADER SHAH. CONTAINING I. A DESCRIPTION OF ASIA, ACCORDING TO THE ORIENTAL GEOGRAPHERS. D. A SHORT HISTORY OF PERSIA FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES...human ; we deck their ftatues and pictures with laurel ; and we dignify them with the name of Great-, though, perhaps, if they were ftripped of their bright... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 856 pages
...Shah, with an introduction, containing A Description of Asia, according to the Oriental Geographers. A Short History of Persia, from the Earliest Times to the present ; and an Appendix containing an Essay on Asiatic Poetry, and the History of the Persian Language, &c.,... | |
 | Frederick Robert Augustus Glover - 1840 - 346 pages
...with an Introduction, containing, 1st, A Description of Asia, according to Oriental Geography ; 2nd, A Short History of Persia, from the earliest times to the present century; and an Appendix, consisting of an Essay on Asiatic Poetry, and the History of the Persian Language.... | |
 | William Jones - 1993 - 452 pages
...LIFE OF NADER SHAH. CONTAINING I. A DESCRIPTION OF ASIA, ACCORDING TO THE ORIENTAL GEOGRAPHERS. II. A SHORT HISTORY OF PERSIA FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT CENTURY. THE PREFACE. characters are more confpicuous in hiftory, or excite greater admiration in the generality of readers,... | |
 | Bruce Lincoln - 1999 - 315 pages
...the validity of this system, as I will show in chapter 4, but his first presentation of it came in "A Short History of Persia from the Earliest Times to the Present Century" (1773), in The Works of Sir William Jones, 12:403-4. Jones's manipulations toward this end were subtle... | |
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