Volume 3

Supplemental nights to the book of the Thousand nights and a night : with notes anthropological and explanatory / by Richard F. Burton.

Date:
1886-1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Supplemental nights to the book of the Thousand nights and a night : with notes anthropological and explanatory / by Richard F. Burton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    y L5^ TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE” (Puris omnia pura) —Arab Proverb. “ Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.” — Decameron—conclusion. “ Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librura Sed coram Ilruto. Brute! recede, leget.” —Martial. “ Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre, Pour ce que rirc est le propre des hommes.” —Rabelais. The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand-and-One Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small p.art of these truly enchanting fictions.” —Crichton’s History of Arabia.