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Girls , whose virginity was secured by means more powerful than moral restraint ,
were valued at 500 piastres : but such is the state of degra degradation to which
the human species is reduced in this Legli ' s Journey in Egypt and Nubia .
Girls , whose virginity was secured by means more powerful than moral restraint ,
were valued at 500 piastres : but such is the state of degra degradation to which
the human species is reduced in this Legli ' s Journey in Egypt and Nubia .
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By whom and by what means these wonderful efforts have been accomplished is
a niystery sunk too deep in the abyss of time ever to be resolved . To Greece
none of them are indebted for any part of their architecture , but she has evidently
...
By whom and by what means these wonderful efforts have been accomplished is
a niystery sunk too deep in the abyss of time ever to be resolved . To Greece
none of them are indebted for any part of their architecture , but she has evidently
...
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These specimens of Ethiopian grandeur shew the fallacy of Denon ' s theory , that
Philæ being the entrepot of commerce between Ethiopia and Egypt , the
Egyptians , desirous of giving to the Ethiopians a grand idea of their means and
their ...
These specimens of Ethiopian grandeur shew the fallacy of Denon ' s theory , that
Philæ being the entrepot of commerce between Ethiopia and Egypt , the
Egyptians , desirous of giving to the Ethiopians a grand idea of their means and
their ...
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During the whole of this interesting journey , we had found the patives universaliy
civil , conducting us to the remains of antiquity with out the least suspicion , and
supplying us with whatever their scanty means would afford . It is true they ...
During the whole of this interesting journey , we had found the patives universaliy
civil , conducting us to the remains of antiquity with out the least suspicion , and
supplying us with whatever their scanty means would afford . It is true they ...
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Should all the inhabitants take a part in this affair and come over , the
consequence will be fatal both to you and myself ; you must make your escape
secretly , and in the mean time I will amuse and detain the Arabs . They took his
advice ; and ...
Should all the inhabitants take a part in this affair and come over , the
consequence will be fatal both to you and myself ; you must make your escape
secretly , and in the mean time I will amuse and detain the Arabs . They took his
advice ; and ...
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| Título | The Quarterly Review, Volumen16 |
| Colaboradores | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Editor | John Murray, 1817 |
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