to have read with emotion a record of a little girl, who, knowing herself for months to be amongst the elect of death, became anxious even to sickness of heart for what she called the conversion of her father. Her filial duty and reverence had been swallowed up in filial love.
13
The Englishwoman in Egypt.– Letters from Cairo, written during a residence in 1842, 1843, and 1844, with E. W. Lane, Esq., author of the Modern Egyptians. By his Sister.
14
Blue eyes are regarded in the East as so unlucky, that the epithet "blue-eyed" is commonly applied as a term of abuse – (see Lane's Thousand and One Nights, chap. XV. note 9.) We find from Miss Pardoe, that a similar prejudice prevails among the Osmanlis.
15
A representation of ladies thus mounted, is found in the Modern Egyptians, Vol. i. p. 240, first edit.
16
Observations on the Mussulmans of India, by Mrs Meer Hassan Ali, (Parbury and Allen, 1832.) The authoress of these volumes became, under what circumstances she does not inform us, the wife of a Moslem native of wealth and rank in India, of whose hareem she had been twelve years an inmate, without once having had reason, by her own account, to regret her apparently strange choice of a partner.
17
Knight's Quarterly Magazine, ii. 414, a talented but shortlived periodical, chiefly by members of the University of Cambridge, to which Praed was a principal contributor under the assumed signature of Peregrine Courtenay.
18
Lane's Thousand and One Nights, i. 176, ii. 345.
19
A representation of the Mahmal is given in the Modern Egyptians, ii. 182.
20
Mrs Damer describes this lady, to whose amiability and accomplishments she does ample justice, as "a sort of Turkish chanoinesse," who had renounced marriage in order to devote herself to her mother – a circumstance which, if correctly stated, would be almost unparalleled in the East. But Mrs Poole's silence would rather lead us to suppose that Mrs Damer was mistaken.
21
A belief precisely similar prevailed throughout Christendom, previous to the year 1260 of our own era: the reference being to the two mystic periods in the eleventh chapter of the Apocalypse.
22
An anecdote of this personage is given in Mr Lane's works, i. 153.
23
It is hareem etiquette to address mothers by the names of their children.
24
Marriages of slaves from the khalif's hareem occur more than once in the Thousand and One Nights.
25
The higher classes are not free from this reproach if we are to believe the story told by Mrs Damer, that Nezleh Hanum punished a female slave who had offended her by the daily amputation of a joint of one of her fingers!
26
A Spanish proverb of former days, defines "Castilian faith and Moorish works" as the ingredients of a good Christian.
27
Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and Geology. 1 vol. 8vo.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology. 4th Edition.
Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology. 7th Edition.
28
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology, 4th Edition, p. 239.
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