 | 1824 - 486 页
...You have written well. If the thing be not exactly so, yet, by the good luck of the Shah, it will be, and therefore it amounts to the same thing. Truth...write his letter, and quoting a well known passage in Sandi, ' Falsehood, mixed with good intentions, is preferable to truth tending to excite strife.' "... | |
 | 1825 - 426 页
...grand vizier, ' You have written well. If the tiling be not exactly so, yet, by the good luck of toe Shah, it will, and therefore it amounts to the same...the mirza, as he looked up from his knee, upon which lie rested his hand to write his letter, and quoting a well known passage in Saadi, 1 Falsehood mixed... | |
 | 1825 - 412 页
...grand vizier, ' You have written well. If the thing be not exactly so, yet, by tlie good luck of tlie Shah, it will, and therefore it amounts to the same thing. Truth is an excellent tiling when it suits one's purpose. k —7 inconvenient when otherwise.' t A, ' said the mirza, as... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 页
...service," answered the mirza; " I have written (reading from his paper) that the infidel dogs of Muscovites (whom may Allah in his mercy impale on stakes of living...one's purpose, but very inconvenient when otherwise." ANONYMOUS. THE BUSYBODY. THE mirth of the company was greatly promoted by the humours of an eccentric... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 页
...answered the mirza ; " I have written (reading from his paper) that the infidel dogs of Muscovites (whom may Allah in his mercy impale on stakes of living...one's purpose, but very inconvenient when otherwise." ANONYMOUS. THE BUSYBODY. THE mirth of the company was greatly promoted by the humours of an eccentric... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 页
...service," answered the mirza; " I have written (reading from his paper) that the infidel dogs of Muscovites (whom may Allah in his mercy impale on stakes of living...one's purpose, but very inconvenient when otherwise." ANONYMOUS. THE BUSYBODY. THE mirth of the company was greatly promoted by the humours of an eccentric... | |
 | James Morier - 2005 - 461 页
...prices of slaves have diminished one hundred per cent. in all the slave-markets of Asia." "Barikollahf Well done," said the grand vizier. "You have written...same thing. Truth is an excellent thing when it suits one purpose, but very inconvenient when otherwise." "Yes," said the mirza, as he looked up from his... | |
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Allah in his mercy impale on stakes of living fires !) dared to appear in arms to the number of fifty thousand, flanked and supported by a hundred mouths spouting fire and brimstone ; but that as soon as the all-victorious armies of the Shah appeared,... 