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Sykes' History of Persia Vol 2 (pdf) - Heritage Institute

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440 HISTORY OF PERSIA CHAP. LXXVH<br />

instruction and too jealous to admit <strong>of</strong> a coadjutor ;<br />

brutal<br />

in his language ; insolent in his demeanour ;<br />

indolent in<br />

his habits ;<br />

he brought the exchequer to the verge <strong>of</strong><br />

bankruptcy and the country to the brink <strong>of</strong> revolution.<br />

The pay <strong>of</strong> the army was generally from three to five<br />

years in arrears. The cavalry <strong>of</strong> the tribes was almost<br />

annihilated." Such to adopt the weighty words <strong>of</strong><br />

Rawlinson was the condition <strong>of</strong> <strong>Persia</strong> in the middle <strong>of</strong><br />

the nineteenth century.

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