"Every thing encourages me on your account, while my own soul, tormented by an unlucky passion, has entirely lost its balance."
The Power of Destiny; or, the Story of Giafar's Journey to Damas; Containing the Adventures of Chebib and His Family. [from Arabian Tales]
3 entries in ESTC (1792).<br>
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See <u>Arabian Tales. Being a Continuation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, to Divert the Sultan from the Execution of a Bloody Vow He Had Made, to Marry a Lady Every Day, and Have Her Cut off Next Morning, to Avenge Himself for the Disloyalty of His First Sultaness, &C. Containing a Better Account of the Customs, Manners, and Religion of the Eastern Nations, Than Is to Be Met With in Any Work Hitherto Published. Translated from the Arabian Manuscript Into French, by Dom Chavis and M. Cazotte, and Now Translated Into English from the Last French Edition.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for G. Mudie, J. Elder, A. Guthrie, J. Hunter, T. Brown, J. & J. Fairhairn, Lawrie & Symington, J. Guthrie, J. Watson & Co., and C. Elliot, Edinburgh; and W. Coke Leith, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T130077">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>Tales of the East: Comprising the Most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin</u>, ed. Henry Weber, 3 vols. (Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1812). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=EwEyAQAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;