A Specimen of the Civil and Military Institutes of Timour, or Tamerlane

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Excerpt from A Specimen of the Civil and Military Institutes of Timour, or Tamerlane: A Work Written Originally by That Celebrated Conqueror in the Mogul Language, and Since Translated Into Persian The Language of Persia is copious in its vocabulary regular and elegant in its formation curious and interesting in the subjects of its Compositions and always abounding in the characteristic beauties of the Eastern Idiom, This language and the literature of Persia were not left behind at the introduction of Oriental Learning into Europe, and they have since insinuated themselves into our libraries in company with and under the sanction of the filler Dialed of Arabia. Whether the larger portion of curious, useful, and interesting information be contained in the Arabic, or Persian authors, I shall not here venture to determine. Yet I will not scruple to aslert, that much elegant amusement, and what is of more importance, much valuable knowledge, and such as the Public would receive with avidity, remains buried in the untranslated Manuscripts of the latter of these languages The Persian Poetry possesses native Genius, and an elegance of Fancy peculiar to itself. It always produces the beautiful, and is not unsuccessful when it aims at the Sublime: of which the Heroic Composition of Firdous is a shining instance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.