“But it was
not alone in poetry that I excelled I had a great turn for mechanics, and
several of my inventions were much admired at court… I invented a new sort of
ink-stand; and was on the high road to making cloth, when I was stopped by his
majesty, who said to me: “… stick to your poetry: whenever I want cloth, my
merchants bring it from Europe.”
James
Morier: The Adventures of Hajji Baba of
Ispahan (1824)
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