Genghis Khan, the Emperor of All MenTraces the life of the chief of the small Mongol tribe who established a vast empire from Peking to the Black Sea in the twelfth century. |
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Page 113 - Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.
Page 166 - In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred River, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Page 73 - ... drunk, never quarrel in their cups. No one despises another, but every one assists his neighbour to the utmost. Their women are chaste, yet their conversation is frequently immodest. Towards other people they are exceedingly proud and overbearing, looking upon all other men with contempt, however noble. For we saw, in the emperor's court, the great duke of Russia, the son of the king of Georgia, and many sultans and other great men, who received no honour or respect ; so that even the Tartars...
Page 107 - to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best.
Page 114 - ... throng, That in quest of these I my soul may please and speed my life along. Verse, and song, and minstrelsy, and wine full-flavoured and sweet, Backgammon, and chess, and the hunting-ground, and the falcon and cheetah fleet ; Field, and ball, and audience-hall, and battle, and banquet rare, Horse, and arms, and a generous hand, and praise of my Lord and prayer.
Page 201 - It is ordered to believe that there is only one God, creator of heaven and earth, who alone gives life and death, riches and poverty äs pleases Hirn; and who has over everything an absolute power."; vgl.
Page 212 - He was, moreover, a military genius of the very first order, and it may be questioned whether either Caesar or Napoleon can as commanders be placed on a par with him. Even the Chinese said that he led his armies like a God. The manner in which he moved large bodies of men over vast distances without an apparent effort, the judgment he showed in the conduct of several wars in countries far apart from each other, his strategy in unknown regions, always on the alert, yet never allowing hesitation or...
Page 204 - My forefathers and family had always sacredly observed the rules of Chengiz. In their parties, their courts, their festivals, and their entertainments, in their sitting down and rising up, they never acted contrary to the institutions of Chengiz.5 The institutions of Chengiz...
Page 166 - Emperor's messengers, come they from what region they may, find everything ready for them. And in sooth this is a thing done on the greatest scale of magnificence that ever was seen. Never had emperor, king, or lord, such wealth as this manifests! For it is a fact that on all these posts taken together there are more than 300,000 horses kept up, specially for the use of the messengers.
Page 13 - When he marched with his horde, it was over degrees of latitude and longitude instead of miles } cities in his path were often obliterated, and rivers diverted from their courses } deserts were peopled with the fleeing and dying, and when he had passed, wolves and ravens often were the sole living things in once populous lands.