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'The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia' [‎62] (83/684)

The record is made up of 1 volume (448 pages). It was created in 1833. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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Ixii rRELIMINARY MATTER.
own vices and cruelties had made him odious to his
subjects, and the virtues and promising qualities of
Seffee Mirza had endeared him to the Persians. His
unhappy father saw and felt this ; and seeing and
feeling it, he adopted the remedy of a base, instead
of a good mind.—Guilt is cruel: wisdom and virtue
alone dare to be magnanimous. The first nobleman
Abbas applied to, to put his son out of the world,
refused to imbrue his hands with the blood ol his
Prince: another was soon found less scrupulous,
and he stabbed the Prince as he was coming from
the bath mounted on a mule. Even-handed Justice,
which often returns the poisoned chalice to our lips,
rejoices, when she records that the scoundrel was,
by order of Abbas, afterwards obliged to put his only
son to death, and present his head to the king; who,
on seeing it, coolly asked him, Halah demaug-it
chauk est? "Now are you in spirits?" And that
this miserable wretch was, at last, when in a state of
intoxication, murdered by one of his own slaves !—
One can scarcely regret that such a person,
" No reckoning made, was sent to his acconnt,
With all his imperfections on his head."
If Abbas was a consummate tyrant, he was also
a consummate hypocrite. Ten days he passed shut
up from the world, with a cloth before his eyes that
he might not see light; a whole month he lived on
very spare diet; went into mourning a whole year;
ever after wore the commonest clothes; made a
feast for several of his nobles whom he thought had
purposely worked on his mind to the prejudice of
his son, poisoned the wine with which they were

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The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia.

Publication Details: Sutherland, London : John Bohn, 1833.

The book is a translation by Harford Jones Brydges of Maʾāsir-i Sulṭānīyah by ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Najaf Qulī, contains illustrations and two maps representing 'Part of Azerbaeejan'

Ownership: With stamps of the East India Company Library and India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Library.

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1 volume (448 pages)
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Dimensions: 223 mm x 140 mm.

Pagination: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-cxci); (1-448).

Condition: there are three fold-out.

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'The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia' [‎62] (83/684), British Library: Printed Collections, Per.D.1829, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023866628.0x000054> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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