A Boswell of Baghdad
Author: V. E. Lucas
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Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781428079144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: V. E. Lucas
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Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781428079144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edward Verrall Lucas
Publisher: Toronto ; S.B. Gundy, [191-?]
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: E V Lucas
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Published: 2020-12-22
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A curious and very entertaining work lies before me, or, to be more accurate, ramparts me, for it is in four ponderous volumes, capable, each, even in less powerful hands than those ofthe Great Lexicographer, of felling a bookseller. At these volumes I have been sipping, beelike, at odd times for some years, and I now propose to yield some of the honey-theseason having become timely, since the great majority of the heroes of its thousands ofpages hail from Baghdad; and Baghdad, after all its wonderful and intact Oriental past, is today under Britain's thumb.The title of the book is Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, translated from the Arabicby Bn Mac Guckin de Slane, and printed in Paris for the Oriental Translation Fund of GreatBritain and Ireland, 1842-71, some centuries after it was written, for its author was deadbefore Edward II ascended the English throne. Who would expect Sir Sidney Lee to havehad so remote an exemplar?Remote not only in time but in distance. For although we may go to the East for religionsand systems of philosophy that were old and proved worthy centuries before Hellenism orChristianity, yet we do not usually find there models for our works of reference. Hardlydoes Rome give us those. But there is an orderliness and thoroughness about IbnKhallikan's methods which the Dictionary of National Biography does not exceed. ThePersian may be more lenient to floridity ("No flowers, by request," was, it will beremembered, the first English editor's motto), but in his desire to leave out no one whoought to be in and to do justice to his inclusions he is beyond praise.The modernity of the ancients is continually surprising us. It is one of the phenomena towhich we are never quite inured (and could we be so we should perhaps merely substitutethe antiquity of the moderns as a new source of wonder), but towards such inuring IbnKhallikan should certainly help, since he was eminently a gossip, and in order to get humannature's fidelity to the type-no matter where found, whether æons ago or to-day, whetherin savage lands or, as we say, civilized-brought home to us, it is to the gossips that wemust resort: to the Pepyses and Boswells rather than to the Goethes and Platos; to the littlerecorders rather than the great thinkers. The small traits tell.
Author: E V Lucas
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Published: 2020-06-11
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A curious and very entertaining work lies before me, or, to be more accurate, ramparts me, for it is in four ponderous volumes, capable, each, even in less powerful hands than those ofthe Great Lexicographer, of felling a bookseller. At these volumes I have been sipping, beelike, at odd times for some years, and I now propose to yield some of the honey-theseason having become timely, since the great majority of the heroes of its thousands ofpages hail from Baghdad; and Baghdad, after all its wonderful and intact Oriental past, is today under Britain's thumb.The title of the book is Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, translated from the Arabicby Bn Mac Guckin de Slane, and printed in Paris for the Oriental Translation Fund of GreatBritain and Ireland, 1842-71, some centuries after it was written, for its author was deadbefore Edward II ascended the English throne. Who would expect Sir Sidney Lee to havehad so remote an exemplar?Remote not only in time but in distance. For although we may go to the East for religionsand systems of philosophy that were old and proved worthy centuries before Hellenism orChristianity, yet we do not usually find there models for our works of reference. Hardlydoes Rome give us those. But there is an orderliness and thoroughness about IbnKhallikan's methods which the Dictionary of National Biography does not exceed. ThePersian may be more lenient to floridity ("No flowers, by request," was, it will beremembered, the first English editor's motto), but in his desire to leave out no one whoought to be in and to do justice to his inclusions he is beyond praise.The modernity of the ancients is continually surprising us. It is one of the phenomena towhich we are never quite inured (and could we be so we should perhaps merely substitutethe antiquity of the moderns as a new source of wonder), but towards such inuring IbnKhallikan should certainly help, since he was eminently a gossip, and in order to get humannature's fidelity to the type-no matter where found, whether æons ago or to-day, whetherin savage lands or, as we say, civilized-brought home to us, it is to the gossips that wemust resort: to the Pepyses and Boswells rather than to the Goethes and Platos; to the littlerecorders rather than the great thinkers. The small traits tell.Ibn Khallikan's Dictionary is as interesting as it is, not because its author had anyremarkable instinct as a biographer, or any gift of selection, but because if a man sets out totake account of everything, much human nature and a little excellence are bound to creepin.
Author: E 1868-1938 Lucas
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-25
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ISBN-13: 9781359696250
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Author: E V Lucas
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Published: 2020-03-27
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A curious and very entertaining work lies before me, or, to be more accurate, ramparts me, for it is in four ponderous volumes, capable, each, even in less powerful hands than those of the Great Lexicographer, of felling a bookseller. At these volumes I have been sipping, beelike, at odd times for some years, and I now propose to yield some of the honey-the season having become timely, since the great majority of the heroes of its thousands of pages hail from Baghdad; and Baghdad, after all its wonderful and intact Oriental past, is today under Britain's thumb. The title of the book is Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, translated from the Arabic by Bn Mac Guckin de Slane, and printed in Paris for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1842-71, some centuries after it was written, for its author was dead before Edward II ascended the English throne. Who would expect Sir Sidney Lee to have had so remote an exemplar? Remote not only in time but in distance. For although we may go to the East for religions and systems of philosophy that were old and proved worthy centuries before Hellenism or Christianity, yet we do not usually find there models for our works of reference. Hardly does Rome give us those. But there is an orderliness and thoroughness about Ibn Khallikan's methods which the Dictionary of National Biography does not exceed. The Persian may be more lenient to floridity ("No flowers, by request," was, it will be remembered, the first English editor's motto), but in his desire to leave out no one who ought to be in and to do justice to his inclusions he is beyond praise.