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mer residence , now so far from being the paradise she describes , thac it is , savs Mr . Dallaway , < only one ot " the finest forests in the world . At the fountain of which she . peaks , the Greek females , in their best attire , assemble on feast-days , with the amphora , or double-handled pitcher , gSrlands , and rude instruments of music , which , with their att tudes , reminding us of the antique , « transmit the customs of the most distant ages to our own days . the humblest ' are marked bcypresses planted at the head
As even graves y and feet , the groves of these trees are extensive , and m every stage of vegetation . The tombs of men are known hy turbans , which , like coronets among us , denote the rank of the deceased : those of v / omen have a plain round top . The inscriptions are delicately wrought , m raised letters of gold , on a dark ground . Between some of these tombs is placed a chest or ornamented stone , filled with earth , in which are p lanted herbs and aromatic flowersThese
. are , . ' Regularly cultivated by the females of the family , who assemble m troupes " ' for that duty . This mark of respeCt is more generally shewn to the voung of either sex , who die unmarried : it is of the highest antiquity amongst the polished and the ruder nations , and surely none can be more elegant and appropriate . ' P . 152 . . ., Mr . Dallaway , in his eulogium of Turkish beauty ( p . 206 ) quotes , with
too ready confidence , Sir William Jones ' s translation ot a passage trom tne Shah-Namab . The Turcoman nymp hs there spoken of , are not , by any means , the damsels of the country we now denominate Turkey ; _ the word Turk has a verv extensive signification ; besides the obvious meaning , it is used to express a beautiful person of either sex . Thus the celebrated poet Haft " ., in his third ( or , according to some copies , his fourth ) sonnet , calls his Persian mistress a Turk of Shiras ., ' Turki Shirauzt ; ' meaning nothing has in other laces tne
more than a lovely g irl . As Mr . Dallaway p quotedbest translation that has ever been made , in any language , of the Koran , that of Sale , we are rather suprised to find him refer , p . 223 , to the , worst , tint of Du Ryer . Of the Jackals , an animal which , according to Busbequius , is larger than a fox , and less than a common wolf , this author affords us the following information : ..,.,, <¦ During the few nig hts we passed at Aiasoluk , we were disturbed by the chical of the Turksand the
incessant cries of the jackals , ( the , cams aureus of JLinnseus ) which are the most distressful imaginable . ' 1 hey colleCt in packs amongst the ruins of Ep hesus . Hasselquist , ( p . 277 ) adduces satisricrory proof of his opinion , that the foxes of Samson were jackals , and ought to be so translated whenever they are mentioned in scripture . The prophet Jeremiah , describing the future desolation of the holy city , has this very striking image now verified of Ephesus , < Zion is desolate ; the foxes walk upon it . ' P . 227 .
£ TO BE CONTINUED , ] Table-Talk : being the Discourses of John Selden , Esq ; or his Sense of various Matters of Weig ht and hig h Consequence , relating especially to Reli g ion and State - . a new Edition , with the Life of the Author , and Notes . Price is . 6 d . Cawthorn .
THE learning , acuteness , vigour and comprehensiveness of Selclen are well known to every man conversant in the literature of this _ country . His -Table-Talk displays a profound knowledge of human nature in general , and particularly as modified by the circumstances of the momentous xr . _ in which lie lived , thought , and afted . This edition contains , in the prefatory biography , a very valuable accession to literary history . The prefixed life is tho
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Review Of New Publications.
mer residence , now so far from being the paradise she describes , thac it is , savs Mr . Dallaway , < only one ot " the finest forests in the world . At the fountain of which she . peaks , the Greek females , in their best attire , assemble on feast-days , with the amphora , or double-handled pitcher , gSrlands , and rude instruments of music , which , with their att tudes , reminding us of the antique , « transmit the customs of the most distant ages to our own days . the humblest ' are marked bcypresses planted at the head
As even graves y and feet , the groves of these trees are extensive , and m every stage of vegetation . The tombs of men are known hy turbans , which , like coronets among us , denote the rank of the deceased : those of v / omen have a plain round top . The inscriptions are delicately wrought , m raised letters of gold , on a dark ground . Between some of these tombs is placed a chest or ornamented stone , filled with earth , in which are p lanted herbs and aromatic flowersThese
. are , . ' Regularly cultivated by the females of the family , who assemble m troupes " ' for that duty . This mark of respeCt is more generally shewn to the voung of either sex , who die unmarried : it is of the highest antiquity amongst the polished and the ruder nations , and surely none can be more elegant and appropriate . ' P . 152 . . ., Mr . Dallaway , in his eulogium of Turkish beauty ( p . 206 ) quotes , with
too ready confidence , Sir William Jones ' s translation ot a passage trom tne Shah-Namab . The Turcoman nymp hs there spoken of , are not , by any means , the damsels of the country we now denominate Turkey ; _ the word Turk has a verv extensive signification ; besides the obvious meaning , it is used to express a beautiful person of either sex . Thus the celebrated poet Haft " ., in his third ( or , according to some copies , his fourth ) sonnet , calls his Persian mistress a Turk of Shiras ., ' Turki Shirauzt ; ' meaning nothing has in other laces tne
more than a lovely g irl . As Mr . Dallaway p quotedbest translation that has ever been made , in any language , of the Koran , that of Sale , we are rather suprised to find him refer , p . 223 , to the , worst , tint of Du Ryer . Of the Jackals , an animal which , according to Busbequius , is larger than a fox , and less than a common wolf , this author affords us the following information : ..,.,, <¦ During the few nig hts we passed at Aiasoluk , we were disturbed by the chical of the Turksand the
incessant cries of the jackals , ( the , cams aureus of JLinnseus ) which are the most distressful imaginable . ' 1 hey colleCt in packs amongst the ruins of Ep hesus . Hasselquist , ( p . 277 ) adduces satisricrory proof of his opinion , that the foxes of Samson were jackals , and ought to be so translated whenever they are mentioned in scripture . The prophet Jeremiah , describing the future desolation of the holy city , has this very striking image now verified of Ephesus , < Zion is desolate ; the foxes walk upon it . ' P . 227 .
£ TO BE CONTINUED , ] Table-Talk : being the Discourses of John Selden , Esq ; or his Sense of various Matters of Weig ht and hig h Consequence , relating especially to Reli g ion and State - . a new Edition , with the Life of the Author , and Notes . Price is . 6 d . Cawthorn .
THE learning , acuteness , vigour and comprehensiveness of Selclen are well known to every man conversant in the literature of this _ country . His -Table-Talk displays a profound knowledge of human nature in general , and particularly as modified by the circumstances of the momentous xr . _ in which lie lived , thought , and afted . This edition contains , in the prefatory biography , a very valuable accession to literary history . The prefixed life is tho