Book of Wise Sayings: Selected Largely from Eastern Sources. E-book. Formato EPUB W. A. Clouston    -  Bertabooks, 2017  - 

Book of Wise Sayings: Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by W. A. Clouston. Author of “Popular Tales and Fictions,” “Literary Coincidences, and other Papers,” “Flowers from a Persian Garden,” etc. “Concise sentences, like darts, fly abroad and make impressions, while long discourses are tedious and not regarded.”—Bacon. “Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled.”—Milton. In the following small selection of aphorisms, a considerable proportion are drawn from Eastern literature. Includes passages from the Indian epics. In more modern times, with the sole exception of William Hazlitt, our country has produced no very successful writer of aphorisms. Colton’s Lacon; or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, went through several editions soon after its first publication in 1820.

Arabian poetry. E-book. Formato EPUB W.A. Clouston   -  Pubme, 2015  - 

IN the modern history of the world, no race or nation has figured so largely, or so widely and permanently influenced the destinies of mankind, as the race of shepherds, dwelling in tents, who have occupied the peninsula of Arabia almost since the Deluge.Roused, from the fatal lethargy of the gross idolatry into which they had long been sunk, by the enthusiasm of one man, who substituted for their vain superstitions the simple but sublime formula of belief, "There is but one sole God," in the space of less than a hundred years these people had overrun and conquered a great part of the then known world, which they held subject for several centuries.