This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...week, not only in his capital, but throughout his extensive dominions. The young prince was so very beautiful that he was called Camaralzaman, which means the moon of the age. Prince Camaralzaman was educated with all possible attention, and when he had reached a proper age, the sultan appointed him a prudent governor and able preceptors. These persons distinguished by their superior understandings, found in him a docile and intelligent disposition, capable of receiving all the instruction they wished to give him. When the prince had attained the age of fifteen years, Schahzaman, who loved him with the greatest tenderness, conceived the design of bestowing on him the most striking mark of his affection, by descending from the throne himself, and raising his son to that distinguished situation. He communicated it to his grand vizier., (I fear, said he, that in the idleness of youth, my son will lose not only those advantages which nature has bestowed on him, but also such as he has so successfully acquired by the good education I have given him. As I am now advanced to an age to make me think of retiring from the world, I have almost resolved to give up the government to him, and to pass the rest of my days in the satisfaction of seeing him reign. Sire, replied the grand vizier, the prince is still too young, I think, to be charged at so early a period with a burden so heavy as that of governing a powerful state. Your majesty is fearful that he may become unsteady, if suffered to lead a life of inactivity and indolence; but to remedy that evil, would it not, in your opinion, be more proper to marry him first? Marriage is likely to render his affections steady, and to prevent his entering into...