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... It is my desire that all wandering prolisities be curtailed , in order to avoid the
sarcastic imputation of the French against the learned of the North , that they
never know when to have done with a subject ; “ ils ont tant la rage de bavarder .
... It is my desire that all wandering prolisities be curtailed , in order to avoid the
sarcastic imputation of the French against the learned of the North , that they
never know when to have done with a subject ; “ ils ont tant la rage de bavarder .
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Whether under the yoke of the Persians , the Greeks , Romans , 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 ...
Whether under the yoke of the Persians , the Greeks , Romans , 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 ...
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The citadel of Cairo , which stands under the Mokattam heights or termination of
the chain of mountains which accompanies the Nile through Upper Egypt , and
which the French fortified , is the residence of the Pashaw , who received our ...
The citadel of Cairo , which stands under the Mokattam heights or termination of
the chain of mountains which accompanies the Nile through Upper Egypt , and
which the French fortified , is the residence of the Pashaw , who received our ...
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Indeed M . Denon is very little to be depended on where he does not copy from
preceding travellers , or from the actual fragments carried away by the French .
By his own account , he has drawn and described objects seen only in galloping
...
Indeed M . Denon is very little to be depended on where he does not copy from
preceding travellers , or from the actual fragments carried away by the French .
By his own account , he has drawn and described objects seen only in galloping
...
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... we can only admire the ingenuity of the painter , who could contrive to catch
the outline of so many objects while galloping through them ; even though the
complaisant enthusiasim of the French soldiers supplied bim with their knees
instead ...
... we can only admire the ingenuity of the painter , who could contrive to catch
the outline of so many objects while galloping through them ; even though the
complaisant enthusiasim of the French soldiers supplied bim with their knees
instead ...
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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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