Memini: Or Reminiscences of Irish Life (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Memini: Or Reminiscences of Irish Life "The ancient Persians taught three useful things: To ride, to draw the bow, to speak the truth. Such was the mode of Cyrus, best of kings, A mode adopted since by modern youth. Bows have they, generally with two strings, Horses they ride without remorse or ruth, At speaking truth perhaps they're not so clever, But draw the long bow better now than ever." Such was the metrical comment of Lord Byron on Herodotus' sentence as to the bringing up of the youth of Persia: and we find his lordship very severe subsequently on the Milesian modes and methods of drawing the long how, but surely the Aryan Irish are more or less privileged par droit de naissance to adopt, this toxophilitish trope, for they are said to be kinsmen to the Persians, whose chief bard, Firdousi, tells us that after a ruction between themselves and the Scythians a treaty was signed between the belligerents, one of the articles of which declared that the Persians were to have all the country to the north-east, over which an arrow could be shot from Demavend, and that a bowman, named Arish, ascended the mountain at sun rise, and shot an arrow to the banks of the Oxus, which did not fall till noon! 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.