Travels in Persia, 1673-1677First inexpensive edition of great travel classic offers detailed, sharply observed portrait of 17th-century Persia. Vivid record of life at court of Shah: lavish banquets and entertainments, diplomatic negotiations, intrigues and cruelty, more. Also, soil and climate, flora and fauna, manners and customs, trade and manufacture, and many other aspects. 9 illustrations. |
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Page 134 - There is such an exquisite Beauty in the Air of Persia, that I can neither forget it my self, nor forbear mentioning it to every body 1M.
Page 161 - Chardin almost angrily failed to appreciate - 'after what I have said of the number and beauty of the Persian flowers, one would be very apt to imagine that they must of course have the finest gardens in the world - but it is no such thing; on the contrary I have found it to be a general rule that where nature is most easy and fruitful, they are very raw and unskilful in the art of gardening . . . The most particular reason one can assign to this is that the Persians don't walk so much in gardens...
Page 134 - Air spreads and diffuses it self over all the face of Nature, that it enobles all its Productions, and all the Works of Art with an unparallel'd Lustre, Solidity and Duration; not to speak how much this Serenity of Air enlivens and invigorates the Constitution of the Body, and how happily it influences the Disposition of the Mind...
Page 11 - say that the Persons of their Kings are Sacred and Sanctified, in a peculiar manner above the rest of Mankind, and bring along with them wheresoever they come, Happiness and Benediction
Page v - An edition of his Travels in four volumes was projected, of which only the first actually appeared. This was entitled Journal du Voyage. ..de Chardin en Perse et auX Indes Orientales. Londres, 1686. It included a reprint of the coronation of Solyman III, as issued in 1671. An English translation was published concurrently. The reason why no further volumes of this edition were issued is not clear, but Chardin appears to have been in correspondence with Jean Louis de Lorme, an Amsterdam publisher.
Page 89 - Embassadour, not being able to digest so much wine, had a pressing Inclination to vomit, and not knowing where to disembogue, he took his great Sable Cap, which he half fill'd. It is well known that the Muscovites wear large and high Caps. His Colleague, who was above him, and the Secretary of the Embassy, who was below him, enrag'd at so foul an Action, done in the Presence of the King of Persia and of the whole Court, reprimanded him, and jogged him with their elbows to remind him of going out....
Page xvii - As when the Tartar from his Russian foe By Astracan over the snowy plains Retires, or Bactrian Sophi from the horns Of Turkish crescent leaves all waste beyond The realm of Aladule in his retreat To Tauris or Casbeen...
Page 161 - do not walk in gardens so much as we do, but content themselves with a bare prospect, and breathing the fresh air. For this reason, they set themselves down in some part of the garden at their first coming in, and never move from their seats till they are going out of it.
