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language of barbarous conquerors, contrasted with the evasions of the princes whom they threaten, leads us to ..

... his brother Kamran through Afghanistan, the fugitives at length foundshospitable shelter in the magnificent court of the Persian Shah Tahmasp. In 1545 Humayun accempanied a Persian force againet Kamran, whom he chastized, annexing Kandahar to Persia. A ...

NEW EDITION OF The BEDFORD DIRECTORY

... Otherwise the most exciting foreign events have been a royal marriage or two, and the journeys of the German EMPEROR and the Persian SHaH. The visitors to the most successful of all the Great Exhibitions still occasionally reach a quarter of a million a day ...

DAILY RECORD AND MAIL THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6 1619 JI to IIM tin King By Appointment 3D THE PROITEERING ACT IDEAL

... at coppers thrown in the air tymology Talking of the Shah and hi? prede-K-soi's it is interesting to learn that Rom the Persian shah mat” meaning Sth? king is dead” we derive through Arabic such words a- checkmate” 3he'k’’ chess” and “exchequer” Aberdeenshire ...

Published: Thursday 06 November 1919
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1895 | Page: 7 | Tags: none