The life of Jenghiz Khan, tr., with an intr. by R.K. Douglas1877 |
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Pàgina xiv - ... went in a south-easterly direction. Complete success followed and a vast sector was encompassed. Jenghiz Khan was satisfied and wanted no more; he wrote to Mohammed the Shah: "I send thee greeting; I know thy power and the vast extent of thine empire; I regard thee as my most cherished son. On my part thou must know that I have conquered China and all the Turkish nations north of it; thou knowest that my country is a magazine of warriors, a mine of silver, and I have no need of other lands. I...
Pàgina 43 - ... upon and made valid by signature in the July of the year following the conclusion of the treaty. The main principle that the Treaty of Nanking was intended to proclaim was the equality of Great Britain with China. Hitherto the Chinese had assumed a superiority over all the nations of the earth. "There is only one sun in the heavens, and there is only one Emperor on the earth," was the common answer to any claim of equality that was put forward by the outer barbarians.
Pàgina xviii - one only heard the sobs and weeping of men, women and children, who were separated for ever ; women were ravished, while many men died rather than survive the dishonour of their wives and daughters.' As a final act, the Mongols set fire to the town, and when the flames subsided, the Great Mosque and certain palaces which were built of brick were the only buildings left to mark the site where ' the centre of Science ' once stood. In this siege 20,000 Bukharian soldiers lost their lives, and the young...
Pàgina xiv - ... hair, and costing fifty dinars each), with the message : " I send these greeting, I know thy power and the vast extent of thine empire, I regard thee as my most cherished son. On thy part, thou must know that I have conquered China and all the Turkish nations north of it, thou knowest that my country is a magazine of warriors, a mine of silver, and that I have no need of other lands. I take it we have an equal interest in encouraging trade between our subjects.
Pàgina 10 - ... unpremeditated and was the outcome of a minor bit of treachery. At the early age of thirteen Jenghiz Khan began his wars, after the death of his father had made him chief of the Mongol tribe. At once secession was demanded by several Tartar clans that had owed allegiance to the Mongols. They said, "The deepest wells are sometimes dry, and the hardest stone is sometimes broken; why should we cling to thee?
Pàgina xxix - You have killed our envoys. Well, as you wish for war, you will have it. We have done you no harm. God is impartial; He will decide our quarrel.
Pàgina xviii - C 2 destroyed destroyed in the attempt. The next day Jenghiz entered the city ; on arriving at the Great Mosque, ' he asked if this was the Sultan's Palace ? ' on being told it was the house of God, he dismounted, climbed the steps, and said in a loud voice to his followers, ' The hay is cut, give your horses fodder.
Pàgina 103 - My time has come. Last winter when the Five Planets appeared together in one quarter was it not to warn me that an end should be put to slaughter, and I neglected to take notice of the admonition ? Now let it be proclaimed abroad, wherever our banners wave, that it is my earnest desire that henceforth the lives of our enemies shall not be unnecessarily sacrificed.
Pàgina 84 - also presented him with a chariot and a banner with nine scalops. As he handed him this last emblem of authority, he spoke to his generals, saying, ' Let this banner be an emblem of sovereignty, and let the orders issued from under it be obeyed as my own.
Pàgina xxxii - ... asserts that he was killed by an arrow ; others say he was struck by lightning ; and there is also a story that he was drowned. His death was, however, preceded by a short illness, during which he drew up an elaborate plan for the conquest of China, and then divided his dominions among his sons. To Juji was assigned the country from Kayalik and Khuarezm, as far as the borders of Bulghar and Saksin, ' wherever the hoofs of Mongol horses had tramped...