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Page 72
... thousand and sixty well - known springs flow from it , and supply water in abundance to the palaces and houses . It abounds also in all kinds of flowers , particularly in syringa ( Erghiwán ) , the annual assembly of Emír Sultán held in ...
... thousand and sixty well - known springs flow from it , and supply water in abundance to the palaces and houses . It abounds also in all kinds of flowers , particularly in syringa ( Erghiwán ) , the annual assembly of Emír Sultán held in ...
Page 73
... thousand persons , which are frequented by the most elegant and learned of the inhabitants , and three times a day singers and dancers execute a musical concert in them like those of Hossein Bikara . Their poets are so many Hassáns ...
... thousand persons , which are frequented by the most elegant and learned of the inhabitants , and three times a day singers and dancers execute a musical concert in them like those of Hossein Bikara . Their poets are so many Hassáns ...
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... thousand of them , racked with hunger . ' Sire , advise us , for the love of charity , for we are going to die of hunger and weakness . ' And Peter replied , “ That is the result of your idleness . Go , take those dead Turks whose dead ...
... thousand of them , racked with hunger . ' Sire , advise us , for the love of charity , for we are going to die of hunger and weakness . ' And Peter replied , “ That is the result of your idleness . Go , take those dead Turks whose dead ...
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