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... tion , if not in the same terms , in the same sense as Tamar Bey , and summed up in these words : " Our former troubles came from Cairo , our present ones from Beyrout . " On the subject of the system of Caimacans I thought we were at ...
... tion , if not in the same terms , in the same sense as Tamar Bey , and summed up in these words : " Our former troubles came from Cairo , our present ones from Beyrout . " On the subject of the system of Caimacans I thought we were at ...
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... tion as improved , and their material state as de- teriorated . An old Sheik who has just left me , was vehement on the score of the tariff . " Your ships come , " he said , " with the holds full of comash , and go away with the ...
... tion as improved , and their material state as de- teriorated . An old Sheik who has just left me , was vehement on the score of the tariff . " Your ships come , " he said , " with the holds full of comash , and go away with the ...
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... tion . He shewed me the fallaka for the bastinado , which was beside his bed , and a jessamine rod ; this , said he , is my pen ; with it I sum up accounts in such fashion that 2700 become 10,000 ; alluding to the first and present ...
... tion . He shewed me the fallaka for the bastinado , which was beside his bed , and a jessamine rod ; this , said he , is my pen ; with it I sum up accounts in such fashion that 2700 become 10,000 ; alluding to the first and present ...
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... tion and an original . The view contracted , or ex- tended , only along a common - place coast ; the ter- racing had disappeared , there were no longer abrupt transitions , and the contrasted colouring had faded into indistinctness ...
... tion and an original . The view contracted , or ex- tended , only along a common - place coast ; the ter- racing had disappeared , there were no longer abrupt transitions , and the contrasted colouring had faded into indistinctness ...
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... tion is driving out . The grand style in Turkey used to be to meet a guest at the door with a couple of censers , which were carried before him to the apart- ment where he was received ; one was then placed in the middle , and on his ...
... tion is driving out . The grand style in Turkey used to be to meet a guest at the door with a couple of censers , which were carried before him to the apart- ment where he was received ; one was then placed in the middle , and on his ...
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Page 42 - Royal sanction. 2. Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister. Such an act she must consider as failure in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
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Page 104 - To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
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