--- title: The Story of Bozaldab. — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · full text with trees description: The Story of Bozaldab., «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: (CONCLUDED.) --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Oriental tales, for the entertainment…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/) / The Story of Bozaldab. # The Story of Bozaldab. The Story of Bozaldab. of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous: the whole text, 27 sentences and 725 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. (CONCLUDED.)[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") “Will Heaven permit such injustice to be practised?” exclaimed Bozaldab.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") “Look again,” said the angel, “and behold the very ship in which, short-sighted as thou art, thou wishedst the merchant might embark, dashed in pieces on a rock: dost thou not hear the cries of the sinking sailors?[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Presume not to direct the Governor of the Universe in his disposal of events.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") The man whom thou hast pitied shall be taken from this dreary solitude, but not by the method thou wouldst prescribe.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") His vice was avarice, by which he became not only abominable, but wretched; he fancied some mighty charm in wealth, which, like the wand of Abdiel, would gratify every wish and obviate every fear.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") This wealth he has now been taught not only to despise but abhor: he cast his jewels upon the sand, and confessed them to be useless; he offered part of them to the mariners, and perceived them to be pernicious: he has now learnt, that they are useful or vain, good or evil, only by the situation and temper of the possessor.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Happy is he whom distress has taught wisdom\![8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") But turn thine eyes to another and more interesting scene.”[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") The Calif instantly beheld a magnificent palace, adorned with the statues of his ancestors wrought in jasper; the ivory doors of which, turning on hinges of the gold of Golconda, discovered a throne of diamonds, surrounded with the Rajas of fifty nations, and with ambassadors in various habits, and of different complexions; on which sat Aboram, the much-lamented son of Bozaldab, and by his side a princess fairer than a Houri.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") “Gracious Alla!—it is my son,” cried the Calif—“O let me hold him to my heart!”[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") “Thou canst not grasp an unsubstantial vision,” replied the angel: “I have now shewn thee what would have been the destiny of thy son, had he continued longer on the earth.”[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") “And why,” returned Bozaldab, “was he not permitted to continue?[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Why was not I suffered to be a witness of so much felicity and power?”[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") “Consider the sequel,” replied he that dwells in the fifth heaven.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Bozaldab looked earnestly, and saw the countenance of his son, on which he had been used to behold the placid simplicity and the vivid blushes of health, now distorted with rage, and now fixed in the insensibility of drunkenness: it was again animated with disdain, it became pale with apprehension, and appeared to be withered by intemperance; his hands were stained with blood, and he trembled by turns with fury and terror.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") The palace so lately shining with oriental pomp, changed suddenly into the cell of a dungeon, where his son lay stretched out on the cold pavement, gagged and bound, with his eyes put out.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon after he perceived the favourite Sultana, who before was seated by his side, enter with a bowl of poison, which she compelled Aboram to drink, and afterwards married the successor to his throne.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") “Happy,” said Caloc, “is he whom Providence has by the angel of death snatched from guilt! from whom that power is withheld, which, if he had possessed, would have accumulated upon himself yet greater misery than it could bring upon others.”[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") “It is enough,” cried Bozaldab; “I adore the inscrutable schemes of omniscience!—From what dreadful evil has my son been rescued by a death, which I rashly bewailed as unfortunate and premature; a death of innocence and peace, which has blessed his memory upon earth, and transmitted his spirit to the skies!”[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") “Cast away the dagger,” replied the heavenly messenger, “which thou wast preparing to plunge into thine own heart.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Exchange complaint for silence, and doubt for adoration.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Can a mortal look down, without giddiness and stupifaction, in the vast abyss of Eternal Wisdom?[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Can a mind that sees not infinitely, perfectly comprehend any thing among an infinity of objects mutually relative?[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Can the channels, which thou commandest to be cut to receive the annual inundations of the Nile, contain the waters of the ocean?[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Remember, that perfect happiness cannot be conferred on a creature; for perfect happiness is an attribute as incommunicable as perfect power and eternity.”[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") The Angel, while he was speaking thus, stretched out his pinions to fly back to the Empyreum; and the flutter of his wings was like the rushing of a cataract.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [The Story of Bozaldab.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/19/) - next →: [The Story of Obidah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/21/) - ↑ back to [Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/)