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... Arabians , Turks or French , this unfortunate country , as Niebuhr justly
observes , has enjoyed no interval of tranquillity and freedom , but has constantly
been oppressed and pillaged by the lieutenants of a distant lord ; the sole object
of both ...
... Arabians , Turks or French , this unfortunate country , as Niebuhr justly
observes , has enjoyed no interval of tranquillity and freedom , but has constantly
been oppressed and pillaged by the lieutenants of a distant lord ; the sole object
of both ...
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Niebuhr says , that , while he was surveying in the Delta , he let a peasant look
through the levelling telescope , which inverted the object ; the man , on
observing the village turned upside down , stared at the traveller with great
astonishment ...
Niebuhr says , that , while he was surveying in the Delta , he let a peasant look
through the levelling telescope , which inverted the object ; the man , on
observing the village turned upside down , stared at the traveller with great
astonishment ...
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The mosques and churches , objects that usually catch the traveller ' s attention ,
possessed no charms apparently for Mr . Legh : he was unsaintly enough not to
visit the Coptic church in which is the grotto where the Holy Family took refuge ...
The mosques and churches , objects that usually catch the traveller ' s attention ,
possessed no charms apparently for Mr . Legh : he was unsaintly enough not to
visit the Coptic church in which is the grotto where the Holy Family took refuge ...
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nishing objects , that one is riveted to the spot , unable to decide whither to direct
the step or fix the attention . These ruins extend from each bank of the Nile to the
sides of the inclosing mountains : the objects which most powerfully attract the ...
nishing objects , that one is riveted to the spot , unable to decide whither to direct
the step or fix the attention . These ruins extend from each bank of the Nile to the
sides of the inclosing mountains : the objects which most powerfully attract the ...
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... to have tended to confuse rather than illustrate , seems to think that it belonged
to the statue of Memnon , and that all the travellers for the last 2 , 000 years have
been deceived in the object of their curiosity ; as appears from the inscriptions .
... to have tended to confuse rather than illustrate , seems to think that it belonged
to the statue of Memnon , and that all the travellers for the last 2 , 000 years have
been deceived in the object of their curiosity ; as appears from the inscriptions .
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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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