Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 63John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1864 |
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... death . " Sheham . There he slept on the bare ground without food , and started next day when the sun was hot , with a draught of muddy water as his sole refreshment . Riding on the whole day , at nightfall he obtained from three ...
... death . " Sheham . There he slept on the bare ground without food , and started next day when the sun was hot , with a draught of muddy water as his sole refreshment . Riding on the whole day , at nightfall he obtained from three ...
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... death , after having his hands and feet cut off . On this occasion twenty mounted irregulars were sent to the spot , but they did not interfere between the combatants , and returned home with the head of an An- sairi , in no way ...
... death , after having his hands and feet cut off . On this occasion twenty mounted irregulars were sent to the spot , but they did not interfere between the combatants , and returned home with the head of an An- sairi , in no way ...
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... death at Constantinople . It was said that application was made to the British embas- sy to interfere on that occasion , but that the intervention , however it was conduct- ed , failed . A formal execution at the cap- ital on such a ...
... death at Constantinople . It was said that application was made to the British embas- sy to interfere on that occasion , but that the intervention , however it was conduct- ed , failed . A formal execution at the cap- ital on such a ...
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... death . Sometimes , as we have said , the decay is produced by the draft- ing away of the flower of a race in for- eign conquests ; but such decay may be only temporary , unless ( as in the case of Greece ) it be accompanied by an ...
... death . Sometimes , as we have said , the decay is produced by the draft- ing away of the flower of a race in for- eign conquests ; but such decay may be only temporary , unless ( as in the case of Greece ) it be accompanied by an ...
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... death of the unfortunate youth . For several years Catharine retained the unaltered confidence and esteem of her husband , who often expressed his admira- tion at the way in which she behaved as empress , while never forgetting that she ...
... death of the unfortunate youth . For several years Catharine retained the unaltered confidence and esteem of her husband , who often expressed his admira- tion at the way in which she behaved as empress , while never forgetting that she ...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 40 John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell Volledige weergave - 1857 |
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Pagina 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...