THE DYNASTY OF THE KAJARS, TRANSLATED FROM THE Original Persian Manuscript PRESENTED BY HIS MAJESTY FATY ALY SHAH ΤΟ SIR HARFORD JONES BRYDGES, BART. K.C. LL.D. LATE ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY FROM HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY TO THE COURT OF TEHERAN. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY OF PERSIA, PREVIOUS TO THAT PERIOD. ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES, AND A MAP OF WESTERN PERSIA, LONDON: JOHN BOHN, 17. HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN; J. H. PARKER, OXFORD; AND H. CONSTABLE, EDINBURGH. M DCCC XXXIII. "Your valour," said the Highlander, “speaks higher language than my Northern wits are able to comprehend." COUNT ROBERT of Paris, Vol. I. p. 57. : -Y de todos, ningunos le parecian tan bien, como los que compuso "el famoso Feliciano de Silva: porque la claridad de su prosa, y aquellas "entricadas razones suyas, le parecian de perlas y mas quando llegaba á "leer aquellos requiebros, y cartas de desafios, donde en muchas partes hallaba "escrito: Le razon de la sinrazon que á mi razon si hace, de tal manera mi "razon enflaquece, que con razon me quexo de la vuestra fermosura. Y tam "bien quando leia: Los altos cielos que de vuestra divinidad divinamente con "las estrellas os fortifican, y os hacen merecedora del merecimento que merece “la vuestra grandeza.” DON QUIXOTE, Ed. Re. Acad. Cap. Prim. fol. 3. "But of all his choice store, none pleased him so much as those written by "the famous Feliciano de Silva: for the glitter of his prose and the perplexity " of his style were to him so many pearls, and especially the love-speeches and "challenges, in which abound passages like this:-So enfeebled is my reason by reason of the unreasonable treatment of my reason, that with reason I complain of your beauty.... The High Heavens, that with your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, rendering you meritorious of the merit "merited by your greatness." ་ 66 66 WESTALL'S Edition, Vol. I. p. 3. |