Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 63John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1864 |
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... whole day , at nightfall he obtained from three Bedaween boys a little milk and a crust of hard bread , and again slept on the plain . After riding the whole of the third day he arrived at the ruins of a fine old castle on a hill ...
... whole day , at nightfall he obtained from three Bedaween boys a little milk and a crust of hard bread , and again slept on the plain . After riding the whole of the third day he arrived at the ruins of a fine old castle on a hill ...
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... whole province of Syria is intrusted to the safe - keeping of a body of two thousand mounted police , similar to Hájí Batrán and his myrmidons . Their pay is always in arrear , and , as if the temptations to plunder a defenseless ...
... whole province of Syria is intrusted to the safe - keeping of a body of two thousand mounted police , similar to Hájí Batrán and his myrmidons . Their pay is always in arrear , and , as if the temptations to plunder a defenseless ...
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... whole empire , and the headquarters of one of the five provincial armies , it may be imagined what insecurity prevails in more distant and unfrequented regions ! To the south of Baghdad again is the land of the wandering Arabs . Here ...
... whole empire , and the headquarters of one of the five provincial armies , it may be imagined what insecurity prevails in more distant and unfrequented regions ! To the south of Baghdad again is the land of the wandering Arabs . Here ...
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... whole lightly taxed . " But it is quite evident that he is here looking rather at the amount of revenue raised , and of taxation per head , than at the ability of the population to pay . The best proof of the miserable condition of the ...
... whole lightly taxed . " But it is quite evident that he is here looking rather at the amount of revenue raised , and of taxation per head , than at the ability of the population to pay . The best proof of the miserable condition of the ...
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... whole system . From the time of Paley to this , frequent refer- ences have been made to the ceaseless dis- turbances upon the regularity and perma- nency of the celestial motions ; but so far from disturbing , they secure the perma ...
... whole system . From the time of Paley to this , frequent refer- ences have been made to the ceaseless dis- turbances upon the regularity and perma- nency of the celestial motions ; but so far from disturbing , they secure the perma ...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 40 John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell Visualização integral - 1857 |
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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...