Category: History - Other

The History of the Assassins, Derived from Oriental Sources

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Chapters

14. BOOK VII.

In the fall of Alamut, the centre of the Assassins was gone; the props of their authority were broken, in the loss of the castles of Rudbar and Kuhistan. Still, the grand-prior...

9. BOOK II.

Egypt, that extraordinary country, so distinguished from all others by the many wonderful phenomena of nature, has ever been in history the memorable theatre of extraordinary ex...

8. BOOK I.

Although the affairs of kingdoms and of nations, like the revolutions of day and night, are generally repeated in countless and continued successions, we, nevertheless, in our s...

11. BOOK IV.

In the preceding books, we traced the mysteries of irreligion and immorality up to their source, and stripped the secret doctrine of the Ismailites of the mask of pretended sanc...

10. BOOK III.

KIA BUSURGOMID, who had been the general and Dai of Hassan, succeeded him in the spiritual power; and trod precisely in the sanguinary steps of the founder of the order. Daggers...

12. BOOK V.

The retributive and avenging Fury proceeds with steady step through the domain of history, but the traces of her silent progress are not always visible to the eye of man. Genera...

13. BOOK VI.

The crimes of the society of murderers, which had long ago exceeded the measure of humanity, had, at length, filled to overflowing that of retributive vengeance: after an existe...

7. BOOK VII.

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1. BOOK I.

4. BOOK IV.

2. BOOK II.

5. BOOK V.

6. BOOK VI.

3. BOOK III.