Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 63John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1864 |
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... speak of rambling among them sounds like junket- ing among cannibals or picnics among pirates . The love of wild adventure , the grim necessity of travel , or serious and responsible duties may and do lead Euro- peans into the haunts of ...
... speak of rambling among them sounds like junket- ing among cannibals or picnics among pirates . The love of wild adventure , the grim necessity of travel , or serious and responsible duties may and do lead Euro- peans into the haunts of ...
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... speaking of the extor- tion to which the agricultural classes , and all , whatever their avocation , who are not Mohammedans , are subjected , nevertheless asserts that the taxation is not severe . " I believe , " he writes , " " that ...
... speaking of the extor- tion to which the agricultural classes , and all , whatever their avocation , who are not Mohammedans , are subjected , nevertheless asserts that the taxation is not severe . " I believe , " he writes , " " that ...
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... speak of Jeddah , it is well - known that ment creates here lawless classes , not individu- key ; it is government . The want of govern- his constant aim is to resist European in- al criminals . Lord Macaulay says that no or- fluence ...
... speak of Jeddah , it is well - known that ment creates here lawless classes , not individu- key ; it is government . The want of govern- his constant aim is to resist European in- al criminals . Lord Macaulay says that no or- fluence ...
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... speaking of " the steady but not violent pressure from with- out , " as if the welfare of Turkey was the prime object of all the European States , whereas there is nothing so certain as that , except England , Turkey has not a single ...
... speaking of " the steady but not violent pressure from with- out , " as if the welfare of Turkey was the prime object of all the European States , whereas there is nothing so certain as that , except England , Turkey has not a single ...
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... speak with an approximation to certainty , for their native talents and tendencies have been displayed in their civilizations ; but of the future of the African nations we can predicate little or nothing ; for they are still in a wholly ...
... speak with an approximation to certainty , for their native talents and tendencies have been displayed in their civilizations ; but of the future of the African nations we can predicate little or nothing ; for they are still in a wholly ...
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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...