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" ... after which the mass was found to make excellent blades. The royal historian adds, that on the incident of this iron of lightning being manufactured, a poet presented him with a distich that, " during his reign the earth attained order and regularity... "
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London - Page 206
by Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1803
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Philosophical Magazine

1803 - 922 pages
...these sabres I named katai, or the cutter ; and the other, burk-serisht, or the lightning matured. " A poet || composed and presented to me, on this occasion,...fell raw iron from lightning : " That iron was by his word-subduing authority converted into a dagger, a knife, and two sabres.' " The chronogram of this...
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The Monthly Magazine, Volume 16

1803 - 748 pages
...Hirfaugienfi, in Vita Biavii Abbatis xl ad Annum 1492. tuu. il, S, GalU, 1690, Vol. ii, p. 551. fiance, In his time fell raw iron from lightning, That iron was, by his world-fubduing authority, Converted imo a dagger, a knife, and two fibres " The chronogram of this...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 2

Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 pages
...formed in the usual way. The following complimentary lines were made on the occasion, and presented to the emperor Jehangire : " In his time fell raw iron...The chronogram of this occurrence is contained in words which signify •the " flame of the imperial lightning," and it gives the year of hegira 1030,...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 pages
...during his reign, the earth attained order and regularity ; that raw iron fell from lightning, and was, by his worldsubduing authority, converted into ' a dagger, a knife, and two sabres.' The exact resemblance of the occurrence here related, in all its essential circumstances, to the accounts...
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The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ...

Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 592 pages
...during his reign, the earth attained order and regularity; that raw iron fell from lightning, which was, by his world-subduing authority, converted into a dagger, a knife, and two sabres." The exact resemblance of this occurrence, in all its essential circumstances, to the former accounts of...
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The Edinburgh encyclopaedia, conducted by D. Brewster, Volume 14

Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 856 pages
...named Kalai, or the cutler ¡ and '"•""V"™' th» other Bitrk-serisht, or the lighlning-nalured. " A poet* composed and presented to me, on this occasion,...raw iron from lightning : " That iron was, by his world- subduing authority, " Converted into a dagger, a knife, and two sabres." But, what is more to...
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A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of the ..., Volume 1

John Holland - 1831 - 364 pages
...of these sabres I named Katai, or the cutter; and the other Surk-serisht, or the tightning-natured. A poet composed and presented to me on this occasion...fell raw iron from lightning : That iron was by his word-subduing authority, Converted into a dagger, a knife, and two sabres.' " Iron, either in the meteoric...
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A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of the ..., Volume 1

John Holland - 1831 - 364 pages
...of these sabres I named Katai, or the cutter; and the other Burk-serisht, or the Kghtning-natured. A poet composed and presented to me on this occasion...attained order and regularity through the emperor Jeha.np.ire : In his time fell raw iron from lightning : That iron was by his word-subduing authority,...
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The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation

Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...during his reign the earth attained order and regularity ; that raw iron fell from lightning, which was, by his world-subduing authority, converted into a dagger, a knife, and two sabres." , A multitude of theories have been devised to account for the origin of these remarkable txxlies....
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Tracts: Mathematical and Physical

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1860 - 342 pages
...during his reign, the earth attained order and regularity ; that raw iron fell from lightning, and was, by his world-subduing authority, converted into a dagger, a knife, and two sabres." The exact resemblance of the occurrence here related, in all its essential circumstances, to the accounts...
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