This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 Excerpt: ...The people witnessed the execution, and applauded equally the astrological skill and the stern justice of their sovereign. On the first day of the second month the same festival was repeated. It was again proclaimed, that every one should eat, drink, and rejoice; but that none should on any account touch any thing but ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 Excerpt: ...The people witnessed the execution, and applauded equally the astrological skill and the stern justice of their sovereign. On the first day of the second month the same festival was repeated. It was again proclaimed, that every one should eat, drink, and rejoice; but that none should on any account touch any thing but what happened to be set before himself. The nobles assembled; the troops stood in order of parade; the people had taken their places in the amphitheatre. The king was on his throne, and surveyed the scene around with attentive eyes. At this moment a foreigner came all hastily and dusty from his journey to the door of the amphitheatre, and his loud inquiries, as to the meaning of the splendid scene before him, were heard distinctly even where the king sat. An old woman, near the entrance, explained to him the meaning of the feast, but forgot to inform him of the regulations as to meddling with dishes at a distance from one's own place. The man took his place, and shortly afterwards stretched out his hand to seize something a little way off. "Hold!" cried at once a thousand voices: " hold, or you will be hanged." The man, who had no very pure conscience to sustain his nerves, took it for granted his fate was sealed; and, without a moment's delay, began leaping over the benches, in the hopes to make his escape. The king nodded: he was arrested, and placed before the throne. "Who art thou?" said Smaragdine, "and wherefore hast thou come into our states?" "My name," answered he, "is Osman. I am by profession a gardener, and have come hither to seek for certain rare trees and flowers." "Holla, there!" cries the king: "bring hither quickly my tablet Romla and the steel pen, an...
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