The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Հատոր 135A. Constable, 1872 |
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... course , but from time immemorial have disembogued into the Aral Sea , precisely as is the case at the present day . On the other hand , it has been roundly asserted by geo- graphers of almost equal weight , that the Aral has fluctuated ...
... course , but from time immemorial have disembogued into the Aral Sea , precisely as is the case at the present day . On the other hand , it has been roundly asserted by geo- graphers of almost equal weight , that the Aral has fluctuated ...
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... course of the Oxus from the Aral to the Caspian , speci- fically says that the diversion took place about the time of the rise of the Mongol power . There must have been , however , almost simultaneously with the destruction of Urganj ...
... course of the Oxus from the Aral to the Caspian , speci- fically says that the diversion took place about the time of the rise of the Mongol power . There must have been , however , almost simultaneously with the destruction of Urganj ...
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... course , is wholly swallowed up in the sandy ' desert considerably below Turkestan , and disappears . ' ( Leyden's Baber , p . 1 ) . 6 As the authority of this anonymous writer has been discredited by some of our best geographers ( see ...
... course , is wholly swallowed up in the sandy ' desert considerably below Turkestan , and disappears . ' ( Leyden's Baber , p . 1 ) . 6 As the authority of this anonymous writer has been discredited by some of our best geographers ( see ...
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... course of the Oxus and its affluents , had not in reality relied on his own independent reminiscences , which were probably hazy in the extreme , but had merely followed a map drawn up by Arrowsmith in 1834 , to illustrate Burnes's ...
... course of the Oxus and its affluents , had not in reality relied on his own independent reminiscences , which were probably hazy in the extreme , but had merely followed a map drawn up by Arrowsmith in 1834 , to illustrate Burnes's ...
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... course of the next week without showing a symptom of distress ! If Rubruquis had but been subjected to the same kindly cruel ' treatment , how jauntily would he have ridden from the Volga to Karakoram ! Rubruquis found Greeks and ...
... course of the next week without showing a symptom of distress ! If Rubruquis had but been subjected to the same kindly cruel ' treatment , how jauntily would he have ridden from the Volga to Karakoram ! Rubruquis found Greeks and ...
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Էջ 289 - Like a tale of little meaning tho' the words are strong; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil; Till they perish and they suffer— some...
Էջ 378 - And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, 'passing rich with forty pounds a year?' Ah! no; a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock : A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask ; The rest he gives to loves and labours light, To fields the morning, and to feasts the night; None better...
Էջ 105 - So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God...
Էջ 380 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. To such I render more than mere respect, Whose actions say that they respect themselves.
Էջ 575 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Էջ 491 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war...
Էջ 380 - A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again : pronounce a text, Cry, hem ! and, reading -what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
Էջ 105 - And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
Էջ 329 - British empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.
Էջ 570 - An act to permit foreigners to be enlisted, and to serve as officers and soldiers in her Majesty's forces...