Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332801537
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Excerpt from Tales From Blackwood, Vol. 1 of 12 In Natolia, Hamet ben Hamet was a proverb for happiness. The pilgrims passing from Constanti nople to Damascus used to stop at the foot of the mountain on which his palace stood, bright as a new-born star, and wonder at the good fortune which had fixed a son of earth in a spot so like Paradise. The people of the country, to a man, declared that smce the prosperous days of the wisest of the wise, even Solomon ben David, there had not been prince, pasha, or padisha, who could compare with the fortune of the mighty Hadgi. They even went so far as to assert, that though he had four wives, he kept his household without an open quarrel; that his two daughters had never fled with Spahi or J anizary, and that his son had never expressed any known objection to his father's living even a dozen years longer. Still the illustrious Hadgi was discontented, What is human happi ness, he exclaimed, but like the bubble in the cup of sherbet, no sooner seen than swallowed, and no sooner swallowed than forgotten? Or like the singing of the bullet from the musket, a perilous pleasure'which a wise man would let pass by him, and none but a fool would desire to catch? The earth is a dungeon, from which the sooner a man gets free the better. Life is a struggle in a stormy sea; every man first tries to sink his neighbour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
