The Quarterly Review, Volumen16John Murray, 1817 |
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... ancient country of the Ethiopians , in which Mr. Legh has gone beyond any former traveller , ( that is to say , along the banks of the Nile , ) except two , whom we shall have occasion to mention here- after , and whose labours are not ...
... ancient country of the Ethiopians , in which Mr. Legh has gone beyond any former traveller , ( that is to say , along the banks of the Nile , ) except two , whom we shall have occasion to mention here- after , and whose labours are not ...
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covered with heaps of rubbish and strewed over with the fragments of ancient buildings . ' Even its venerable ruins are fast disappear- ing , the Turks having so little feeling for ancient works of art , that they dig up the most ...
covered with heaps of rubbish and strewed over with the fragments of ancient buildings . ' Even its venerable ruins are fast disappear- ing , the Turks having so little feeling for ancient works of art , that they dig up the most ...
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... Ancient Coptic books are said to be found still in Upper Egypt , but no Copt under- stands them ; and the Rosetta stone , we suspect , is still little less mysterious than it was on the day of its arrival in England . The simplicity of ...
... Ancient Coptic books are said to be found still in Upper Egypt , but no Copt under- stands them ; and the Rosetta stone , we suspect , is still little less mysterious than it was on the day of its arrival in England . The simplicity of ...
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... ancient Hermopolis , they partook of the enthusiasm with which Denon speaks of its splendid ruins ; but Mr. Legh observes , that his de- lineation of them denotes the haste with which he travelled , for that the Winged Globe represented ...
... ancient Hermopolis , they partook of the enthusiasm with which Denon speaks of its splendid ruins ; but Mr. Legh observes , that his de- lineation of them denotes the haste with which he travelled , for that the Winged Globe represented ...
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... ancient poets and historians — the wonder of every traveller in every age that venerable city , ( as Pococke says , ) the date of whose destruction is older than the foun- dation of most other cities ' — and the extent of whose ruins ...
... ancient poets and historians — the wonder of every traveller in every age that venerable city , ( as Pococke says , ) the date of whose destruction is older than the foun- dation of most other cities ' — and the extent of whose ruins ...
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