 | Malthe Conrad Bruun - 1822 - 686 pagina’s
...Laristan, where recent examples of earthquakes have occurred *. Climateand " My father's empire, 11 said the younger Cyrus to Xenophon, " is so large, that people perish with cold at the one extremity, while they are suffocated with heat at the other. 11 This description still applies... | |
 | James Baillie Fraser - 1834 - 374 pagina’s
...advance eastward to the Attok, and becomo conterminous with India. * D"Anville ; Vinomt's Nearchus. This extensive region, which occupies a space of more...having gasped for a season on the burning sands of the Dushtistan, have in one short month been pinched by the numbing cold of the northern provinces.... | |
 | James Baillie Fraser - 1834 - 380 pagina’s
...advance eastward to the Attok, and become conterminous with India. * D'Anvilla; Vincent'i Nsarchaa This extensive region, which occupies a space of more...extremity, while they are suffocated with heat at the other,"—a description, the truth of which can be well appreciated by those who, having gasped for... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pagina’s
...what Cyrus the younger, many hundreds of years ago described it, when he said, " My father's kingdom is so large, that people perish with cold at one extremity,...while they are suffocated with heat at the other." One of the most remarkable features of the country, is its chains of rocky mountains, its long valleys,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1835 - 344 pagina’s
...passage they examine the map.) Here it is. The younger Cyrus said to Xenophon, ' My father's empire is so large, that people perish with cold at one extremity,...while they are suffocated with heat at the other.' UO Ay, that is it ! Persia is not so large now as it was in the time of Cyrus, but this is still very... | |
 | John R. Miles - 1838 - 400 pagina’s
...are, however, extremely fertile. Q. What is the nature of the climate ? A. My father's empire, said the younger Cyrus to Xenophon, is so large, that people perish with cold at the one extremity, while they are suffocated with heat at the other. This is the case at the present... | |
 | James Baillie Fraser - 1842 - 360 pagina’s
...Attok, and become conterminous with India. *D'Anrille; Vincent's Nearcho*. This extensive region, whidh occupies a space of more than twenty-five degrees...cold at one extremity, while they are suffocated with neat at the other," — a description, the truth of which can be well appreciated by those who, having... | |
 | John R. Miles - 1846 - 512 pagina’s
...succulent plants which soon wither. Many tracts are, however, extremely fertile. My father's empire, said the younger Cyrus to Xenophon, is so large, that people perish with cold at the one extremity, while they are suffocated with heat at the other. This is the case at the present... | |
 | William Sandys Wright Vaux - 1850 - 490 pagina’s
...various in her climate that the younger Cyrus is reported to have said to Xenophon, " My father's kingdom is so large that people perish with cold at one extremity,...while they are suffocated with heat at the other," Persia has continued through all ages the favourite country of the imagination ; and in her poets,... | |
 | William Anderson Scott - 1859 - 360 pagina’s
...younger Cyrus was correct, though a little boastful, in saying to Xenophon : " My father's kingdom is so large that people perish with cold at one extremity,...while they are suffocated with heat at the other." The great extent of the dominions of the Persian kings may be learned from the great numbers and the... | |
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My father's empire," said Cyrus to Xenophon, " is so large that people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated with heat at the other. 
