On the 1001 Nights

[blueatheart]

"Apparently England is ever forgetting that she is at present the greatest Mohammedan empire in the world. Of late years she has systematically neglected Arabism and, indeed, actively discouraged it in examinations for the Indian Civil Service, where it is incomparably more valuable than Greek and Latin. Hence, when suddenly compelled to assume the

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[blueatheart]

Yeah, that would be great. Thanks.

[viola4]

"using words that Shakespeare would find antiquiated" ... and sentences a German speaker would call long! I had trouble with the above passage...read and understood the bolded part, though.

[blueatheart]

That passage isn't even what I was referring to, however.

Here's the first "real" sentence, translated, for better understanding:

Verily the works and words of those gone before us have become instances and examples to men of our modern day, that folk may view what admonishing chances befel other folk and may therefrom take warning; and that they may peruse the annals of antique peoples and all that hath betided them, and be thereby ruled and restrained:--Praise, therefore, be to Him who hath made the histories of the Past an admonition unto the Present!

It's not really hard to understand...unless you're not a native English speaker, of course!