The Wanderer in Arabia: Or, Western Footsteps in Eastern TracksHurst & Blackett, 1855 |
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... give some account of a journey through countries which have always a value for the student of antiquity , as for the Christian world , above that of all others — the countries in which are laid the scenes of the events of Holy Scripture ...
... give some account of a journey through countries which have always a value for the student of antiquity , as for the Christian world , above that of all others — the countries in which are laid the scenes of the events of Holy Scripture ...
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... equally bold would be that man who should venture to give to the world , as a work on the modern state of these great , old countries - as an authority to be VOL . I. α iv INTRODUCTION . relied on by others - the scraps CHAPTER.
... equally bold would be that man who should venture to give to the world , as a work on the modern state of these great , old countries - as an authority to be VOL . I. α iv INTRODUCTION . relied on by others - the scraps CHAPTER.
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... give them welcome again in Egypt . I compared , in my way , his reception of them and a supposed Englishman's mode of welcome . The latter would have smiled rigidly once - bowed once with a touch of his hat - said ' Hope I see you well ...
... give them welcome again in Egypt . I compared , in my way , his reception of them and a supposed Englishman's mode of welcome . The latter would have smiled rigidly once - bowed once with a touch of his hat - said ' Hope I see you well ...
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... give the Nile all hail . Among other unaccountable things in the nature of us poor mortals , some of us possess a most extravagant , and unreasoning feeling of regard , for very old objects , because they are old , and thus we VOL . I ...
... give the Nile all hail . Among other unaccountable things in the nature of us poor mortals , some of us possess a most extravagant , and unreasoning feeling of regard , for very old objects , because they are old , and thus we VOL . I ...
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... gives it the Horatian colour . However , it was the Tiber , infant and bright , and rushing in its young mountain - born strength , to become aged and languid and sad- INTERRUPTED REVERIES . 35 complexioned as it washed the bank.
... gives it the Horatian colour . However , it was the Tiber , infant and bright , and rushing in its young mountain - born strength , to become aged and languid and sad- INTERRUPTED REVERIES . 35 complexioned as it washed the bank.
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