Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . iiimniimiiiiiin umimr riiLin i;u iiiiiiiiiui mi in in in. nm Omar Khayyam the anonymous preface which is sometimes pre-fixed to his poems; it has been printed in thePersian in the appendix to Hydes Veterum Per-sarum Religio, p. 529; and DHerbelot alludes toit in his Bibliotheque, under Khiam :x — It is written in the chronicles of the ancientsthat this King of the Wise, Omar Khayyam, diedat Naishapur in the year of the Hegira, 517 (a. ); in science he was unrivalled, — the veryparagon of his age. Khwajah Nizami of Samar-cand, who

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . iiimniimiiiiiin umimr riiLin i;u iiiiiiiiiui mi in in in. nm Omar Khayyam the anonymous preface which is sometimes pre-fixed to his poems; it has been printed in thePersian in the appendix to Hydes Veterum Per-sarum Religio, p. 529; and DHerbelot alludes toit in his Bibliotheque, under Khiam :x — It is written in the chronicles of the ancientsthat this King of the Wise, Omar Khayyam, diedat Naishapur in the year of the Hegira, 517 (a. ); in science he was unrivalled, — the veryparagon of his age. Khwajah Nizami of Samar-cand, who was one of his pupils, relates the fol-lowing story: I often used to hold conversationswith my teacher, Omar Khayyam, in a garden ;and one day he said to me, My tomb shall bein a spot where the north wind may scatter roses 1 Philosophe Musulman qui a vecu en Odeur de Saintetevers la Fin du premier et le Commencement du second Siecle,no part of which, except the Philosophe, can apply to ourKhayyam.

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