The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 63 |
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Having failed in his mission , and not having ventured to proceed to extremities with so violent a people , he was returning home , when he passed through a Christian village . Village for village mattered little ; he set fire to it .
Having failed in his mission , and not having ventured to proceed to extremities with so violent a people , he was returning home , when he passed through a Christian village . Village for village mattered little ; he set fire to it .
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It would enrich the country it passed through . The Arab tribes , unmanageable by the Turks , would be peaceable with us , and in return would be enriched and civilized . Above all , England and India would be brought by this railroad ...
It would enrich the country it passed through . The Arab tribes , unmanageable by the Turks , would be peaceable with us , and in return would be enriched and civilized . Above all , England and India would be brought by this railroad ...
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Where has a red Indian ever passed into a white ; or who ever hears of an Englishman becoming black under the tropics ? even has a Jew of pure blood acquired a Greek or English type of features ? Where , in short , is the process going ...
Where has a red Indian ever passed into a white ; or who ever hears of an Englishman becoming black under the tropics ? even has a Jew of pure blood acquired a Greek or English type of features ? Where , in short , is the process going ...
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The national existence of the ancient Egyptians passed away ( we may say ) sixteen hundred years ago . The Greek nation ceased to exist long ago ; and its blood has become so mixed , and its country so changed , that if it should revive ...
The national existence of the ancient Egyptians passed away ( we may say ) sixteen hundred years ago . The Greek nation ceased to exist long ago ; and its blood has become so mixed , and its country so changed , that if it should revive ...
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When he passed through the court - yard , on which the windows of the imperial princesses looked , in whose daily society he had lived so long , they came up to the window , and he took a reverential farewell of them .
When he passed through the court - yard , on which the windows of the imperial princesses looked , in whose daily society he had lived so long , they came up to the window , and he took a reverential farewell of them .
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Página 130 - Artesian wells had been opened, around which, as vegetation thrives luxuriantly, thirty thousand palm-trees and one thousand fruit-trees were planted, and two thriving villages established. At the depth of a little over five hundred feet, an underground river or lake was struck, and from two of them live fish have been thrown up, showing that there was a large body of water underneath. The French government, by this means, hopes to make the route across the desert, to Timbuctoo, fertile, and fit...