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' The Two Jews Of Meshid.
And these three things had young Abbas Khan , antl these three hacl the Nizam-u-Doulah ; and when they paced along with their gaily-attired , prancing , behadaring attendants after them , some AA'ith spear in hand and shield slung at the back , others on foot clearing the Avay or closing the procession ; or when they alightedas the sun dipped beneath the horizonand the
, , attendants spread their praying-carpets , and the Nizam knelt first , Avith his son and his folloAvers in single file behind him , who dreamed that the shadow of death had already fallen upon some , that the sun of their prosperity was just then on the horizon , and that a few short months would see their power in the dustthe Nizam an exilelearning by sad experience
, , " Come sa di sale , lo pane altrui ;" and finding it difficult to get that bread , bitter as it is , and his brave young son a prisoner in the hands of his bitterest foe , Kohan Dil Khan of Kandahar , loaded with chains , and only saved from being blown from the mouth of a gun by the intercession of a Mussulman devotee ?
But the flax was noiv blazing , the glory of this world had not yet vanished in smoke before the eyes of Muhammad Usman Khan , the pillar of the state ; ancl so he rode along , ancl so the strangers gazed at him . They were brothers . That might be guessed , not only by the likeness between them , but by the affectionate familiarity with which they walked hand in
hand , or with which , when standing , the younger occasionally threw his arm across his brother ' s shoulder ; for among the Jews all family ties are as strong as they haye eA'er been since the days when the first children clustered round the first mother , ancl the law of nature ancl of God Avas yet unbroken , which taught thatas He in the beginning " made them male and
, female , " so but one Avife Avas the gift of the Most High to man . Jeremy Taylor remarks , that the first blessing God gave to man Avas society , ancl the first society Avas a marriage : but the great enemy of mankind has always opposed this holy ordinance , either by saying , " It is not enough ; " or , " It is too much ;" " Marriage is unholy ; " or" Polygamy is lawful . " God " has
, set the solitary in families ; " the devil sets him either in a cloister or in a harem ; ancl in either case all the siveet ties of family affection are destroyed . And why , loving each other , should not grown men show it ? Is , then , the North American Indian the fittest type of the British gentleman ? He is a boy of no common manlinesswho
, will embrace his mother in a public school ; he is an Oxonian far above the ordinary type , who is not ashamed to receive the affectionate kiss of his young sister , when he descends from the VOL . i . 2 T
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' The Two Jews Of Meshid.
And these three things had young Abbas Khan , antl these three hacl the Nizam-u-Doulah ; and when they paced along with their gaily-attired , prancing , behadaring attendants after them , some AA'ith spear in hand and shield slung at the back , others on foot clearing the Avay or closing the procession ; or when they alightedas the sun dipped beneath the horizonand the
, , attendants spread their praying-carpets , and the Nizam knelt first , Avith his son and his folloAvers in single file behind him , who dreamed that the shadow of death had already fallen upon some , that the sun of their prosperity was just then on the horizon , and that a few short months would see their power in the dustthe Nizam an exilelearning by sad experience
, , " Come sa di sale , lo pane altrui ;" and finding it difficult to get that bread , bitter as it is , and his brave young son a prisoner in the hands of his bitterest foe , Kohan Dil Khan of Kandahar , loaded with chains , and only saved from being blown from the mouth of a gun by the intercession of a Mussulman devotee ?
But the flax was noiv blazing , the glory of this world had not yet vanished in smoke before the eyes of Muhammad Usman Khan , the pillar of the state ; ancl so he rode along , ancl so the strangers gazed at him . They were brothers . That might be guessed , not only by the likeness between them , but by the affectionate familiarity with which they walked hand in
hand , or with which , when standing , the younger occasionally threw his arm across his brother ' s shoulder ; for among the Jews all family ties are as strong as they haye eA'er been since the days when the first children clustered round the first mother , ancl the law of nature ancl of God Avas yet unbroken , which taught thatas He in the beginning " made them male and
, female , " so but one Avife Avas the gift of the Most High to man . Jeremy Taylor remarks , that the first blessing God gave to man Avas society , ancl the first society Avas a marriage : but the great enemy of mankind has always opposed this holy ordinance , either by saying , " It is not enough ; " or , " It is too much ;" " Marriage is unholy ; " or" Polygamy is lawful . " God " has
, set the solitary in families ; " the devil sets him either in a cloister or in a harem ; ancl in either case all the siveet ties of family affection are destroyed . And why , loving each other , should not grown men show it ? Is , then , the North American Indian the fittest type of the British gentleman ? He is a boy of no common manlinesswho
, will embrace his mother in a public school ; he is an Oxonian far above the ordinary type , who is not ashamed to receive the affectionate kiss of his young sister , when he descends from the VOL . i . 2 T