Under the Palms in Algeria and Tunis ...Hurst and Blackett, 1868 |
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... out of sheer malice , and is therefore a much more un- pleasant beast to meet . On the present occasion we made up our minds to proceed , and risk a danger which seemed to us CEDARS . 19 chimerical . Slowly we wound up the.
... out of sheer malice , and is therefore a much more un- pleasant beast to meet . On the present occasion we made up our minds to proceed , and risk a danger which seemed to us CEDARS . 19 chimerical . Slowly we wound up the.
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... present a very droll appearance - a mere bundle of clothes with a wide top , a tag , or a handker- chief , or a bit of gauze , sticking out generally of some inconceivable place , which gives a general impression of everything having ...
... present a very droll appearance - a mere bundle of clothes with a wide top , a tag , or a handker- chief , or a bit of gauze , sticking out generally of some inconceivable place , which gives a general impression of everything having ...
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... present goodness must redeem the errors of the past , " they say ; 66 we have a few lives upon our consciences , but God alone is perfect ! " A " few lives , " forsooth ! -they are modest , these good Arabs . Toumi , one of their chiefs ...
... present goodness must redeem the errors of the past , " they say ; 66 we have a few lives upon our consciences , but God alone is perfect ! " A " few lives , " forsooth ! -they are modest , these good Arabs . Toumi , one of their chiefs ...
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... present time , to the successful production of cotton in this quarter , arises from the almost total absence of water ; the little there is belonging in the first place to the natives , who sell it in their turn to Europeans at fabulous ...
... present time , to the successful production of cotton in this quarter , arises from the almost total absence of water ; the little there is belonging in the first place to the natives , who sell it in their turn to Europeans at fabulous ...
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... present to its fortunate possessors , who are well aware that when the time arrives they have but to open the gates and let in a band of thirsty capitalists . We have seen elsewhere that colonization to a certain extent was necessary to ...
... present to its fortunate possessors , who are well aware that when the time arrives they have but to open the gates and let in a band of thirsty capitalists . We have seen elsewhere that colonization to a certain extent was necessary to ...
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Էջ 280 - Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted: it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.