!['The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.' [‎485] (526/786)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023553883.0x000001/X 699 vol. 2_0526.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.' [‎485] (526/786)")
'The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.' [485] (526/786)
The record is made up of 1 volume (715 pages). It was created in 1815. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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THE HISTORY OF PERSIA.
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the evils which belong to absolute power, the greatest is the necessary chap.xxiii
delegation of its vast authority to mean and sordid agents, whose
minds must, from their condition, be insensible to many of the higher
motives that may be expected to influence the conduct of the chief
ruler.
Many European travellers, who have resided at the capital of
Persia, have felt a very natural horror at the tyranny of particular
sovereigns; and have given, in consequence, an exaggerated pic
ture of the condition of that country. One
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
affirms, that
" the Persians expect injustice from their kings *but the idiom
atic phrases which he adduces to support this assertion, only prove
that they recognise an unlimited power in their sovereign, which
they will admit in no other person. The same author, whose
experience was very great, and whose local knowledge was very
minute, after a detail of the caprice and cruelty of the Kings of
Persia, upon which the philosophers of his country have grounded
many just, and some erroneous opinions, concludes with the fol
lowing remarkable observation. " After all, I never saw, and
never heard of the king committing any outrageous act of vio-
lence, unauthorized by a public procedure, against any person
" not in the class of courtiers, or public officers of government.
* Ctardm (Vol. V. page 21%) informs us, that a person often exclaims, when
speaking of another who is oppressive, Pddshdee mekunnud, which signifies, " He acts
" the kingand if they experience violence from any one, they exclaim, Mugur pad-
sh&ee ton, « Perhaps thou art a king and again, when complaining of the tyranny of
another individual, they say, Pddshdee ba mun-lcurdd-ust, that is, « He acted the king
" Wlth me •' , A11 th ese expressions merely mean, that the person of whom they were
made, assumed a power which did not belong to him.
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The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.
The book, in two volumes, is written by John Malcolm and contains illustrations.
Publication Details: London : printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street, and Longman and Co., Paternoster-Row, by James Moyes, Greville Street, MDCCCXV [1815]
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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There is a table of contents at the beginning (v-vii) and an index at the end of the volume (639-715).
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Conditioning: the book is made of two volumes, this is the second.
Dimensions: 320 mm x 265 mm.
Pagination: vii, [1], 715, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates.
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- 'The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:vii-v, 1:44, 44a:44d, 45:114, 114a:114d, 115:160, 160a:160d, 161:262, 262a:262d, 263:314, 314a:314d, 315:522, 522a:522h, 523:524, 524a:524h, 525:596, 596a:596d, 597:602, 602a:602d, 603:716, viii-r:ix-v, back-i
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- Malcolm, Sir John
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