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1 Int | itself into four phases: (1) The Narrative; (2) The
2 V, 199 | feet of the eagles,~ p. 211~and let them soar upwards
3 Int | in an Aramaic papyrus of 500 B. C. among the ruins of
4 II, 89 | 64 O my son! whosoever is elegant
5 II, 90 | 65 O my son! if thou hast committed
6 II, 91 | 66 O my son! make a friend
7 II, 92 | 67 There are four things in
8 IV, 163 | said, 'O my lord! who is able to build a castle between
9 VII, 338 | recompense thee for thine abominable deeds.'~
10 | above
11 III, 146 | and repeated and spread abroad in every place of how Haiqâr
12 VII, 340 | 45 Accept me, O my uncle! Now I will
13 VI, 252 | 7 And Pharaoh accepted this, saying, 'O Haiqâr,
14 V, 199 | ten cubits, till they grew accustomed and were educated to it;
15 III, 104 | mind, and wrote a letter to Achish, son of Shah the Wise, king
16 Int | the reader can make its acquaintance in the supplementary pages
17 Int | narrative which is full of action, intrigue, and narrow escape
18 III | III.~Ahikar retires from active participation in affairs
19 IV, 171 | master! every slave who acts contrary to the word of
20 VII, 303 | roots of the madder, and it add me to-day and to-morrow
21 I, 22 | And he looked at him and admired him and rejoiced in him~
22 I | have no son. Therefore he adopts his nephew. He crams him
23 VI, 253 | perfect in wisdom and hath adorned thee with philosophy and
24 II, 26 | my speech and follow my advice and remember what I say.~
25 II, 82 | son! visit the poor in his affliction, and speak of him in the
26 II, 59 | 34 O my son! be not afraid of thy Lord who created
27 | again
28 V | on the eagles. The first "airplane" ride. Off to Egypt. Ahikar,
29 III, 147 | And they wept and said: 'Alas for thee, O Haiqâr! and
30 III, 121 | Haiqâr and said to him, 'W’allah, O my uncle! The king verily
31 II | CHAP. II.~A "Poor Richard's Almanac" of ancient days. Immortal
32 II, 35 | my son! be not like the almond-tree, for it brings forth leaves
33 VII, 328 | feed thee with sugar and almonds."~
34 VII, 314 | God accepteth not thine alms and thy kind deeds.~
35 II, 65 | colocynth, and swallowed aloes, and I have found nothing
36 V, 200 | that when they were borne aloft to the sky they were to
37 | along
38 | always
39 III | treacherous nephew. Here is the amazing story of how a thankless
40 IV, 186 | change thy clothes, and amuse thyself for the space of
41 III, 137 | certain place till the king's anger subsided and he asked for
42 II, 86 | rod, but let not the fool anoint thee with sweet salve. Be
43 V, 237 | tongue and his boldness in answering. Then Pharaoh arose from
44 V, 215 | and I a little ant of the ants of king Sennacherib.'~
45 III, 119 | Haiqâr he was seized with anxiety and terror and perplexity,
46 III, 137 | took the swordsman aside apart from the company and said, '
47 III | being condemned to death. Apparently the end of Ahikar.~
48 II, 89 | speech; and he who has a mean appearance in his dress, he also is
49 VI, 295 | the retiring-place, and appointed Nebu-hal as sentinel over
50 Int | supplementary pages of The Arabian Nights. It is brilliantly
51 Int | original story turning up in an Aramaic papyrus of 500 B. C. among
52 VI, 291 | Pharaoh from his first arrival until he had come away from
53 IV, 159 | they were perplexed and ashamed, and he was wroth with a
54 III, 137 | Haiqâr took the swordsman aside apart from the company and
55 III, 112 | this letter reaches thee, assemble all the soldiers who are
56 II, 49 | head in the streets and the assemblies and thou be punished for
57 VI, 259 | 14 And the crowd were astonished and perplexed, and they
58 VII, 352 | torn and his belly burst asunder and his entrails were scattered,
59 VII, 316 | sprang upon the ass and ate it up.~
60 Int | narrow escape holds the attention to the last. The liberty
61 III, 148 | Haiqâr, and his repentance availed him naught.~
62 III, 128 | Haiqâr, O blackface! what avails thee thy meditation or thy
63 VI, 279 | faithful shoemakers to cut awls from this stone, that I
64 II, 32 | honourable remembrance lasts for aye.~
65 II, 53 | O my son! be not like a bare, leafless tree that doth
66 VII, 321 | had got warm, it began to bark at them, and they chased
67 I, 5 | condition and the matter of his barrenness.~
68 III, 130 | guilty, but the wicked man bas to give an account of his
69 III, 106 | without war and without battle-array.'~
70 V, 226 | thy servants are like its beams.' And Pharaoh said to him, '
71 VI, 266 | thus and beat that dumb beast?'~
72 III, 150(1)| Nadan's revelry and his beating of the servants with Matthew
73 II, 34 | son! desire not a woman bedizened with dress and with ointments,
74 | beforehand
75 III, 130 | nevertheless, O my lord the king! I beg of thee and of thy friendship,
76 VII, 347 | confirmed which runs: "If thou begettest a boy, call him thy son,
77 | beginning
78 II, 85 | stealing, and thine eyes from beholding evil; then thou wilt be
79 VII, 345 | said, "Lamb and goat in my bell"~
80 VII, 352 | and he was torn and his belly burst asunder and his entrails
81 III, 151 | maidservants and the slaves belonging to Haiqâr, and bound them
82 II, 64 | before thou committest thy belongings to them, lest they make
83 II, 36 | 11 O my son! bend thy head low down, and soften
84 III, 115 | recompense from him for my benefits to him?'~
85 III, 102 | a younger brother named Benuzârdân, so Haiqâr took him to himself
86 I, 9 | High God, and believed, beseeching Him with a burning in his
87 II, 34 | soul. Woe o thee if thou bestow on her anything that is
88 II, 78 | shall be much to thee, and beware lost thou reveal the secret
89 I, 15 | 15 And when Nadan grew big and walked, shooting up
90 VI, 295 | a tight knot, and after binding him thus he cast him into
91 II, 74(1) | Cf. "A bird in the hand is worth two
92 VII, 321 | beat it, that it might not bite them.~
93 II, 65 | have found nothing more bitter than poverty and scarcity.~
94 II, 90 | otherwise thou wilt endure bitterness.~
95 II, 84 | stand still in heaven, and a black crow become white, and myrrh
96 III, 128 | screamed and said, 'O Haiqâr, O blackface! what avails thee thy meditation
97 VII, 351 | became like a blown-out bladder.~
98 III, 96 | scoffed at him, and set about blaming him whenever he appeared,
99 VI, 294 | to me, and grant me his blood and hold me guiltless of
100 V, 238 | when he wills the winds blow and the rain falls.~
101 VII, 351 | immediately and became like a blown-out bladder.~
102 V, 240 | commands the tempest, and it blows and the rain falls and it
103 V, 237 | freedom of his tongue and his boldness in answering. Then Pharaoh
104 II, 48 | of beasts, and like the bolting of the door.~
105 VI, 274 | the back of the house, and bored holes in the rough shore
106 | both
107 II, 53 | with its leaves and its boughs; for the man who has neither
108 V, 219 | together, and their heads bowed.~
109 VII, 327 | to me like a tree whose branches they were cutting, and it
110 VII, 302 | which when it strikes on brass, pierces it.~
111 VI, 258 | to shout, saying, 'Bring bricks, bring clay, that we may
112 Int | The Arabian Nights. It is brilliantly written, and the narrative
113 VI, 255 | workmen, and I have skilled builders who will build for thee
114 VI, 263 | rest, for we have given up building the castle, and to-morrow
115 II, 67 | wise men, for it will be burdensome to him.~
116 II, 27 | it become a live coal and burn thy tongue and cause a pain
117 I, 9 | believed, beseeching Him with a burning in his heart, saying, 'O
118 VII, 352 | he was torn and his belly burst asunder and his entrails
119 VII, 337 | didst become to me like one burying in the depth of the earth;
120 II, 74(1) | hand is worth two in the bush."~
121 Int | Aramaic papyrus of 500 B. C. among the ruins of Elephantine.~
122 V, 199 | firm knot, and tied the cable to the feet of the eagles,~
123 V, 198 | weavers of ropes to weave two cables of cotton for him, each
124 II, 44 | and rejoice not in the calamities of thy neighbours.1 If thine
125 VII | Striking similes. Ahikar calls the boy picturesque names.
126 V, 198 | commanded the huntsmen to capture two young eaglets for him,
127 V, 198 | eaglets for him, and they captured them and brought them to
128 II, 58 | 33 O my son! caress not thy slave in the presence
129 V, 198 | cubits long, and he had the carpenters brought and ordered them
130 V, 207 | answer his questions, they carried the news to king Pharaoh,
131 VII, 311 | bread and victuals which I carry for all the hungry and the
132 IV, 168 | and I tarried not in thy case till I had seen the end
133 VI, 262 | would have built several castles in a single day.'~
134 VII, 353 | who sets up traps shall be caught in them.~
135 III, 140 | slain me; and now I have a cellar in the garden of my house,
136 Int | it down about the First Century when they were proved in
137 VII, 328 | till we make for thee a chain of gold and feed thee with
138 IV, 181 | the colour of his face had changed and faded and was now like
139 VI, 291 | taxes from him, and the changes of raiment and the presents.~
140 Int | wise men of the world the character of Ahikar. Here is his colorful
141 V, 200 | desire was fulfilled he charged the boys that when they
142 III, 120 | with chains, and I will chase away thine enemy from thee
143 I, 11 | reason thou shalt remain childless thy life long.~
144 VII, 304 | his comrade naked in the chilly time of winter; and he took
145 VI, 255 | according to thy wish and choice; but, O my lord I prepare
146 VII, 355 | 60 This chronicle is finished with the help
147 V, 239 | and the stars, and they circle not.~
148 IV, 173 | and he is now safe in the cistern, and if thou command me
149 IV, 181 | and his nails like the claws of an eagle, and that his
150 VI | boys on the eagles are the climax of the day. Wit, so rarely
151 II, 91 | of the man whose hand is closed and hungry.~
152 V, 219 | days afterwards Pharaoh clothed himself in purple and red
153 II, 27 | another, lest it become a live coal and burn thy tongue and
154 VI, 281 | excited, and commanded them to collect for him three years' taxes,
155 II, 65 | O my son! I have eaten a colocynth, and swallowed aloes, and
156 III, 150(1)| the language of Ahikar has colored one of our Lord's parables.~
157 Int | character of Ahikar. Here is his colorful tale.~The date of this story
158 V, 230 | to wear robes of various colours, and Pharaoh wore a red
159 II, 34 | anything that is thine, or commit to her what is in thine
160 II, 90 | 65 O my son! if thou hast committed a theft, make it known to
161 II, 55 | wanders from its path and its companions becomes food for the wolf.~
162 III, 137 | swordsman aside apart from the company and said, 'O Abu Samîk,
163 III, 98 | Haiqâr saw that he had no compassion on his servants nor on his
164 III, 103 | jealousy, and he began to complain to every one who questioned
165 VII, 323 | the goat which joined its comrades on their way to the sacrifice,
166 VII, 335 | hiding-place for me and didst conceal me.~
167 VII, 337 | castle, that I might be concealed from my enemies in it, and
168 III | Ahikar results in his being condemned to death. Apparently the
169 VII, 347 | boy! the saying has been confirmed which runs: "If thou begettest
170 V, 217 | with the weak that He may confound the strong.'~
171 V, 197 | of forty days that I may consider this question and manage
172 II, 38 | drink not with ignorant, contemptible people.~
173 V, 194 | read it and understood its contents.~
174 III, 104 | stumbling-block he might contrive for him.~paragraph continues]
175 V, 216 | ant to reply to me, and to converse with me?'~
176 IV, 187 | the king stripped off his costly robe, and put it on Haiqâr,
177 V, 198 | ropes to weave two cables of cotton for him, each of them two
178 I, 14 | And he was seated upon couches of silk.~
179 V, 207 | sent a man of his Privy Council to talk with Pharaoh and
180 II, 79 | mouth till thou hast taken counsel with thy heart. And stand
181 III, 155 | story was reported in other countries that Haiqâr the Sage had
182 VI, 284 | thee that not one of our countrymen may remain in Egypt.'~
183 V, 227 | Then Pharaoh commanded his Court to wear pure white, and
184 II, 36 | soften thy voice, and be courteous, and walk in the straight
185 VII, 329 | am not forgetful of the craft of my father and my mother."~
186 I, 25 | night and day till he had crammed him with wisdom and knowledge
187 I | he adopts his nephew. He crams him full of wisdom and knowledge
188 I, 14 | clothing, and purple and crimson. And he was seated upon
189 II, 69 | straight path, and goes in a crooked way.~
190 V, 219 | standing with their hands crossed, their feet close together,
191 VI, 259 | 14 And the crowd were astonished and perplexed,
192 II, 51 | son! let not thy parents curse thee, and the Lord be pleased
193 VII, 327 | whose branches they were cutting, and it said~to them, "If
194 II, 44(1) | Cf. Psalms CXLI. 4.~
195 II | Verse 63 with some of the cynicism of today.~
196 II, 43 | son! he content with thy daily bread and thy goods, and
197 VI, 295 | thus he cast him into a dark room, beside the retiring-place,
198 V, 192 | side, saying to him,~'O my darling Haiqâr! look at these letters
199 Int | is his colorful tale.~The date of this story has been a
200 II, 33 | die the most miserable of deaths, and she entangle thee in
201 VI, 251 | to him, 'Truly this is a debt which thou owest to my lord
202 II, 33 | son! let not a silly woman deceive thee with her speech, lest
203 III, 140 | Nadan my sister's son has deceived me and has done this bad
204 I, 8 | went away sorrowful and dejected, departing with a pain at
205 V, 197 | to the king: 'Grant me a delay of forty days that I may
206 IV, 179 | joy, and happiness, and delight!'~
207 V, 190 | before him, rejoicing and delighted.~
208 IV, 167 | fill of gazing at thee, and delighting in thee.~
209 III, 154 | comforted him and wished him deliverance.~
210 V, 193 | king of Egypt has sent to demand from us.~
211 IV, 187 | obeisance to the king, and departed to his dwelling glad and
212 I, 8 | sorrowful and dejected, departing with a pain at his heart.~
213 I, 17 | weighted with years; and thy departure from this world must be
214 VII, 337 | like one burying in the depth of the earth; but the Lord
215 VI, 267 | ugly deed to me, and has deserved this drubbing and flogging,
216 III, 141 | have a slave in prison who deserves to be killed.~
217 IV, 157 | 2 I have been desiring to build a castle between
218 II, 34 | and with ointments, who is despicable and silly in her soul. Woe
219 II, 51 | hath been said, "He who despiseth his father or his mother
220 IV, 165 | is me for thee! how did I destroy thee! and I listened to
221 V, 240 | it tramples on April and destroys its flowers and its houses.'~
222 VII, 353 | 58 And his latter end was destruction, and he went to hell. For
223 VII, 352 | scattered, and he perished, and died.~
224 VII, 335 | thee up, and thou didst dig a hiding-place for me and
225 III, 118 | knowing what a pit Nadan had digged for him.~
226 VII, 353 | went to hell. For he who digs a pit for his brother shall
227 II, 82 | Sultan's presence, and do thy diligence to save him from the mouth
228 II, 36 | every day; and if it were by dint of strength that the plough
229 VII, 330 | more mischievous than they direct both of them."~
230 I, 17 | vizier, my Chancellor and director; verily thou art grown very
231 IV, 181 | eagle, and that his body was dirty with dust, and the colour
232 Int | been a subject of lively discussion. Scholars finally put it
233 II, 46 | ignorant, stupid man, for his disease there is no drug.~
234 II, 53 | neither wife nor children is disgraced in the world and is hated
235 III, 122 | to thee that thou mayst dismiss the soldiers to their duties
236 III, 93 | that instead of that he was displaying to him weariness and contempt
237 III, 150 | assembled heartless and dissolute people and set about eating
238 Int | the writer.~The writing divides itself into four phases: (
239 IV, 160 | the philosophers, and the diviners and the astrologers, and
240 VI, 283 | his lord and pride of his Doctors! have any of the Sultans
241 VII, 309 | said to the trap, "What doest thou here?" Said the trap, "
242 VII, 338 | and make thee food for dogs, and cut out thy tongue,
243 VII, 306 | wouldst have reigned over my dominions.~
244 II, 53 | bare, leafless tree that doth not grow, but be like a
245 VII, 344 | And the wolf said, "The dregs of the sheep's milk are
246 II, 36 | strength that the plough were driven, the plough would never
247 II, 61 | sense of shame; but if thou drub the ignorant with a stick
248 III, 151 | them and tortured them and drubbed them with a sore drubbing.~
249 II, 46 | his disease there is no drug.~
250 III, 142 | the servants when they are drunk to slay him. They will not
251 III, 136 | till they were gorged and drunken.~
252 VII, 333 | thou didst not feed me with dry bread.~
253 VII, 340 | horses and sweep up the dung of thy cattle, and feed
254 VII, 309 | which was set up on the dunghill, and there came a sparrow
255 V, 206 | eagles, and went towards the dwellings of Egypt; and when he had
256 V, 198 | huntsmen to capture two young eaglets for him, and they captured
257 VII, 298 | who listeneth not with his ear, they will make him listen
258 II, 29 | son! make thy eloquence easy to the listener, and be
259 VII, 338 | take off thy head with the edge of the sword, and recompense
260 V, 199 | grew accustomed and were educated to it; and they rose all
261 VI, 265 | violent flogging till the Egyptians heard it, and they went
262 I, 13 | And he handed him over to eight wet-nurses, that they might
263 II, 89 | 64 O my son! whosoever is elegant in his dress, he is the
264 Int | B. C. among the ruins of Elephantine.~The story is obviously
265 II, 29 | 4 O my son! make thy eloquence easy to the listener, and
266 | else
267 II, 64 | ignorant, and he who hath an empty hand is called poor, ignorant,
268 VII | picturesque names. Here ends the story of Ahikar.~
269 II, 80 | thee a patient spirit, and endurance and an upright conduct,
270 II, 90 | for otherwise thou wilt endure bitterness.~
271 | enough
272 IV, 177 | speech be true, I would fain enrich thee, and exalt thy dignity
273 II, 33 | in the net till thou art ensnared.~
274 II, 34 | is in thine hand and she entice thee into sin, and God be
275 VII, 352 | belly burst asunder and his entrails were scattered, and he perished,
276 III, 154 | hiding-place: and Haiqâr came and entreated him. And he comforted him
277 I, 7 | implored them with request, and entreaty.~
278 VII, 301 | hearts and hindereth the envious and the haughty.~
279 Int | completes the education of his erring nephew).~
280 Int | when they were proved in error by the original story turning
281 Int | action, intrigue, and narrow escape holds the attention to the
282 II | dress, business, friends. Especially interesting proverbs are
283 IV, 177 | would fain enrich thee, and exalt thy dignity above that of
284 VII, 355 | the help of God, may He be exalted! Amen, Amen, Amen.~
285 VI, 287 | him and rejoiced over him exceedingly with great joy and embraced
286 | except
287 VI, 281 | answers, he at once became excited, and commanded them to collect
288 III, 139 | with a great wrath about my execution.~
289 V, 202 | never done training them and exercising them till they had reached
290 V, 196 | great joy, and his heart was expanded and he showed him favour.~
291 VI, 282 | servants, and gave him the expenses of his journey.~
292 I, 5 | men and the wizards and explained to them his condition and
293 VII, 326 | 31 O my son! the eye in which light is not seen,
294 Int | fiction and not history. In fact the reader can make its
295 IV, 181 | his face had changed and faded and was now like ashes.~
296 II, 72 | 47 O my son! beauty fades but learning lasts, and
297 IV, 176 | and his head swam, and he fainted from joy, and he commanded
298 II, 60 | my son! make thy speech fair and sweeten thy tongue;
299 VI, 279 | want thee to command thy faithful shoemakers to cut awls from
300 VII, 315 | accepteth from thee neither thy fast nor thy prayer, and God
301 VII, 315 | 20 And if that is thy fasting and thy prayers, God accepteth
302 II, 50 | 25 O my son! get thee a fat ox with a foreskin, and
303 I | Assyria, has 60 wives but is fated to have no son. Therefore
304 VII, 331 | thou return them to their fathers and to their parents or
305 IV, 170 | Abu Samîk, what is thy fault?'~
306 III, 122 | and that the king may be feared by them and by their king.'~
307 II, 45 | 20 O my son! a man who fears God do thou fear him and
308 V, 199 | day sacrificing lambs and feeding the eagles and the boys,
309 VII, 346 | down at the table and he fell, and began to roll himself
310 VI, 295 | dwelling, and put a heavy fetter on his feet, and tied it
311 Int | The story is obviously fiction and not history. In fact
312 III, 115 | was wroth with a great and fierce wrath, and said, 'Ah, I
313 II, 91 | whose hand is satisfied~and filled, and make no friend of the
314 VII, 322 | of the hot bath, it saw a filthy hole and it went down and
315 Int | lively discussion. Scholars finally put it down about the First
316 V, 199 | and he bound them with a firm knot, and tied the cable
317 V, 193 | people of our country have fled to Egypt for fear of the
318 VII, 324 | hunting becomes food for flies.~
319 II, 87 | river in the days of its flood.~
320 II, 74 | than a thousand sparrows flying;1 and poverty which gathers
321 II, 52 | thou knowest not when the foe may meet thee, so that thou
322 II, 26 | son! hear my speech and follow my advice and remember what
323 II, 56 | speech of ignorance and folly, lest thou be despised by
324 II, 84 | honey, then ignorant men and fools might understand and become
325 II, 79 | fighting, and thou wilt be forced to bear witness; but run
326 IV, 185 | Lord! since I have appeared fore thee, let not care oppress
327 VI, 278 | Pharaoh 'O my lord! I am a foreigner: and I have no tool for
328 II, 50 | get thee a fat ox with a foreskin, and an ass great with its
329 III | thankless profligate turns forgerer. A clever plot to entangle
330 VII, 329 | And she said, "I am not forgetful of the craft of my father
331 VII, 339 | me, or who is there who forgives like thee?~
332 VII, 340 | the guilty and thou the forgiving.'1~
333 VII, 337 | thou wouldst build me a fortified castle, that I might be
334 V, 235 | 47 And the fourth time thou didst compare
335 II, 74 | provision; and a living fox is better than a dead lion;
336 III, 130 | I beg of thee and of thy friendship, permit the swordsman to
337 II, 74 | my child! the thigh of~a frog in thy hand is better than
338 II, 66 | O my son! teach thy son frugality and hunger, that he may
339 II, 54 | 29 O my son! be like a fruitful tree on the roadside, whose
340 II, 27 | pain in thy body, and thou gain a reproach, and art shamed
341 III, 94 | that he had possessed and gained; and the power of bidding
342 VII, 318 | arose and reaped it, and garnered it, and threshed it, and
343 II, 74 | flying;1 and poverty which gathers is better than the scattering
344 V, 190 | Then he dressed himself his gayest dress, and went riding to
345 VII, 303 | my boy! thou art like the gazelle who was eating the roots
346 IV, 167 | I might take my fill of gazing at thee, and delighting
347 I, 14 | him up with good food and gentle training and silken clothing,
348 Int | mosaic found in Treves, Germany, pictured among the wise
349 II, 46 | and even if he falls he gets up quickly, and if he is
350 VI, 283 | him how we have sent him gifts, for kings are content with
351 V, 239 | he holds the sun, and it gives not its light, and the moon
352 IV, 187 | departed to his dwelling glad and happy, praising the
353 VII, 317 | but spoils the wheat and gnaws it.~
354 VII, 331 | wolf, "The lambs and the goats and the sheep which thou
355 I, 6 | him, 'Go, sacrifice to the gods and beseech them that perchance
356 II, 74 | thy hand is better than a goose in the pot of thy neighbour;
357 III, 136 | drinking till they were gorged and drunken.~
358 III, 133 | virgins, and dress them in gowns of purple and silk that
359 IV, 183 | swordsman, and was very gracious to him, and gave him great
360 I | CHAP. I.~Ahikar, Grand Vizier of Assyria, has 60
361 VI, 292 | for it is all within the grasp of thy hand.'~
362 I, 11 | hast relied first of all on graven images, and hast offered
363 V, 241 | heard this speech, he was greatly perplexed and was wroth
364 VI, 293 | and the continuance of his greatness.~
365 VII, 325 | and plough and (which) is greedy and cunning shall be cut
366 III, 100 | neither in nor out, nor did he greet him.~
367 V, 192 | the king's presence and greeted him, and he returned the
368 VI, 283 | Sultans thy like? give my greetings to thy lord king Sennacherib,
369 II, 69 | blindness of the heart is more grievous than the blindness of the
370 VII, 340 | serve in thy house, and groom thy horses and sweep up
371 VI, 269 | from all this that thou art growing old and art in thy dotage,
372 VII, 305 | but it became the cause of guilt and sin.~
373 VI, 294 | me his blood and hold me guiltless of it.'~
374 V, 209 | king! Sennacherib the king hails thee with abundance of peace
375 IV, 181 | state of want, and that his hair had grown long like the
376 I, 13 | little suckling. And he handed him over to eight wet-nurses,
377 VI, 274 | shore of the sea, and took a handful of sand in his hand, sea-sand,
378 II, 50 | quarrelsome slave, nor a thievish handmaid, for everything which thou
379 II, 49 | amongst the people and thou hang thy head in the streets
380 V, 191 | s son perceived what was happening, fear took hold of him and
381 IV, 187 | to his dwelling glad and happy, praising the Most High
382 IV, 162 | perchance he may untie this hard knot.'~
383 III, 150 | foolish, the ignorant, the hardhearted, went to the house of his
384 VII, 344 | sheep lest their dust should harm thee." And the wolf said, "
385 VII, 318 | of wheat, and when it was harvest time, he arose and reaped
386 III, 113 | there coming towards thee, haste and make the army move against
387 II, 62 | they send thee on business, hasten to fulfil it quickly.~
388 II, 53 | disgraced in the world and is hated by them, like a leafless
389 VII, 338 | reward me with evil and hatefulness, and now I would fain tear
390 VII, 301 | hindereth the envious and the haughty.~
391 V, 219 | close together, and their heads bowed.~
392 VII, 301 | set for me, for the Lord healeth the broken hearts and hindereth
393 II, 27 | 2 O my son! if thou hearest a word, let it die in thy
394 III, 150 | nor wailed, but assembled heartless and dissolute people and
395 VII, 301 | Lord healeth the broken hearts and hindereth the envious
396 I, 10 | he may be present at my heath, that he may close my eyes,
397 I, 9 | High God, O Creator of the Heavens and of the earth, O Creator
398 VI, 295 | his dwelling, and put a heavy fetter on his feet, and
399 VII, 353 | destruction, and he went to hell. For he who digs a pit for
400 VI, 285 | And Pharaoh arose and sent heralds to proclaim in the streets
401 VI, 260 | what they want and do not hinder them from their work.'~
402 VII, 301 | healeth the broken hearts and hindereth the envious and the haughty.~
403 Int | obviously fiction and not history. In fact the reader can
404 VII, 305 | it. And the stone did not hit, and did not reach high
405 VII, 310 | piece of wood that thou holdest?" Said the trap, "That is
406 VII, 322 | hot bath, it saw a filthy hole and it went down and wallowed
407 I, 21 | sister's son. And he did homage and wished him power and
408 VI, 252 | the like of thee who are honest in the service of kings.~
409 II, 84 | and myrrh grow sweet as honey, then ignorant men and fools
410 II, 32 | and passes away, but an honourable remembrance lasts for aye.~
411 II, 51 | death of sin); and he who honoureth his parents shall prolong
412 II, 50 | and an ass great with its hoofs, and get not an ox with
413 II, 50 | get not an ox with large horns, nor make friends with a
414 VI, 267 | true voice and knew the hours of the day and the night.~
415 II, 86 | thee with sweet salve. Be humble in thy youth and thou shalt
416 V | wisdom also has a sense of humor. (Verse 27).~
417 III, 126 | a word from fear; but he hung his head towards the earth
418 VII, 324 | which is not fed from its hunting becomes food for flies.~
419 V, 198 | dwelling, and he commanded the huntsmen to capture two young eaglets
420 I, 7 | offered sacrifices to the idols, and besought them and implored
421 II, 56 | relate not the speech of ignorance and folly, lest thou be
422 II | CHAP. II.~A "Poor Richard's Almanac"
423 III | CHAP. III.~Ahikar retires from active
424 II, 88 | me'; and if it turns out ill, she will rate at him who
425 I, 11 | relied first of all on graven images, and hast offered sacrifices
426 Int | the last. The liberty of imagination is the most precious possession
427 III, 93 | Nadan, his sister's son, he imagined that he would keep them
428 VII, 351 | uncle Haiqâr, he swelled up immediately and became like a blown-out
429 II | Almanac" of ancient days. Immortal precepts of human conduct
430 IV, 186 | mayst do good to thyself and improve thy condition and the colour
431 I, 11 | to him a voice saying, 'Inasmuch as thou hast relied first
432 Int | legends of many people, including the Koran, and the Old and
433 II, 47 | man approach thee who is inferior to thyself, go forward to
434 Int | thought and wisdom. Its influence can be traced through the
435 III, 98 | from his house, and sent to inform the king that he had scattered
436 III, 93 | when he had finished these injunctions and proverbs to Nadan, his
437 VII, 308 | through thy envy and thy insolence didst desire to kill me.
438 | instead
439 III, 147 | where can there be a man so intelligent, so learned, so skilled
440 II | business, friends. Especially interesting proverbs are found in Verses
441 Int | which is full of action, intrigue, and narrow escape holds
442 VI, 295 | his hands with chains of iron, and took him to his dwelling,
443 II, 79 | O my son! let not a word issue from thy mouth till thou
444 III, 103 | was seized with envy and jealousy, and he began to complain
445 VII, 323 | to me like the goat which joined its comrades on their way
446 VI, 286 | leave of king Pharaoh, and journeyed, seeking the land of Assyria
447 VII, 350 | will requite thee and will judge, betwixt me and thee, and
448 V, 212 | stability of a kingdom is strict justice, and if thou winnest and
449 VII, 316 | with an ass, and the ass kept walking before the lion
450 V, 222 | said to him, 'O my lord the kin I thou art like the idol
451 VI, 287 | to him, 'Welcome home: O kinsman! my brother Haiqâr, the
452 III, 130 | 38 Then Haiqâr knelt before the king, and said, '
453 Int | many people, including the Koran, and the Old and New Testaments.~
454 VII, 325 | the hand which does not labour and plough and (which) is
455 II, 40 | thy speech with a man who lacks wisdom.~
456 V, 199 | Then he took two little lads, and spent every day sacrificing
457 III, 143 | it. And thou shalt have laid up a great treasure with
458 VII, 345 | him, "Say A, B." He said, "Lamb and goat in my bell"~
459 III, 149 | for thy uncle Haiqâr, and lament for him as the custom is,
460 III, 155 | king Sennacherib, and they lamented over Haiqâr the solver of
461 II, 50 | and get not an ox with large horns, nor make friends
462 | latter
463 VI, 280 | Pharaoh and all his nobles laughed. And he said, 'Blessed be
464 II, 36 | not thy voice when thou laughest for if it were by a loud
465 VII, 318 | master said to it: "O thou lazy thing! thou hast not grown
466 V, 203 | 15 Then leaving them he went to the king
467 Int | can be traced through the legends of many people, including
468 VII, 352 | his limbs swelled and his legs and his feet and his side,
469 VI, 248 | thee is that thou wouldst lend me nine hundred talents
470 Int | attention to the last. The liberty of imagination is the most
471 III, 100 | And the hand of Nadan was lifted off from his uncle Haiqâr
472 V, 239 | commands the thunder, and it lightens and rains, and he holds
473 V, 238 | and his nobles are the lightnings and the thunder, and when
474 III, 111 | went and wrote a letter likewise from the king to his uncle
475 VI, 255 | O my lord I prepare us lime and stone and clay and workmen,
476 VII, 298 | ear, they will make him listen with the scruff of his neck.'~
477 II, 29 | thy eloquence easy to the listener, and be not hasty to return
478 VII, 298 | in the proverbs: He who listeneth not with his ear, they will
479 Int | story has been a subject of lively discussion. Scholars finally
480 III, 117 | And the king looked, and lo! Haiqâr and the army were
481 VI, 295 | sentinel over him to give him a loaf of bread and a little water
482 II, 31 | 6 O my son! loose not a sealed knot, nor untie
483 II, 31 | untie it, and seal not a loosened knot.~
484 II, 57 | servants, to whom their lords say, "Get away from us,"
485 II, 78 | much to thee, and beware lost thou reveal the secret of
486 II, 36 | O my son! bend thy head low down, and soften thy voice,
487 II, 61 | word of wisdom, it will lurk in his breast like a subtle
488 III, 136 | order, and the wine and the luxurious viands, and they began eating
489 II, 85 | restrain thy tongue from lying, and thy hand from stealing,
490 II, 37 | 12 O m son! the removing of stones
491 VI, 261 | king said to him, 'Thou art mad; who can bring anything
492 VII, 303 | eating the roots of the madder, and it add me to-day and
493 V, 219 | all his viziers and the magnates of his kingdom were standing
494 III, 151 | Nadan began to seize the maidservants and the slaves belonging
495 V, 199 | eagles and the boys, and making the boys ride on the backs
496 V, 197 | consider this question and manage it.' And the king permitted
497 II, 66 | that he may do well in the management of his household.~
498 IV, 165 | without religion, without manliness.~
499 II, 48 | drubbing of thy son is like manure to the garden, and like
500 II, 74 | but the wool stays in the markets and it is seen, and it is
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