the travellers
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travellers · الرحالة · السياح
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Economics (Greek)
Just as two travellers on the road, both young and in good health, will differ so much in pace that one will cover two hundred furlongs to the other’s hundred, because the one does what he set out to do, by going ahead, while the other is all for ease, now resting by a fountain or in the shade, now gazing at the view, now wooing the soft breeze;
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The class of foreign travel-writers whose reports, gathered through interpreters and passers-by and sharpened for the marvellous, furnish both the raw material of the mother-right theory and the reason to distrust it.
It appears that those who assert mother-right among the Arabs were alerted to it by what they read in the books of the travellers concerning the existence of communal marriage among certain savage tribes among the Indians of America and Australia and in Tibet and the like, and that the Arabs of the Jāhilīyah had a kind of this marriage;
We have before us numerous travel-books written and published in the course of the two last centuries about Syria and Egypt, in which are fabrications that have no foundation save in the mind of the writer or of his prompter.
or that he heard it from certain narrators and credited it for its strangeness, setting it down with all its blemishes, as many of his like do who journey to the lands of the East and lean, in describing their people and their usages, upon what is thrown to them by some interpreter or passer-by, with whatever is in it of exaggeration or invention — they being the more eager to publish the strange, …
Economics
A pair of road travellers used as an analogy for steady effort versus ease-loving delay.
Just as two travellers on the road, both young and in good health, will differ so much in pace that one will cover two hundred furlongs to the other’s hundred, because the one does what he set out to do, by going ahead, while the other is all for ease, now resting by a fountain or in the shade, now gazing at the view, now wooing the soft breeze;