The London Quarterly Review, Volumen16Theodore Foster, 1817 |
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... tion , which was performed at a moment of distress , that the risk of mor- tality might be incurred at a time when the merchants could best spare their slaves . Their method of travelling was to sling a dozen of the ne- groes across the ...
... tion , which was performed at a moment of distress , that the risk of mor- tality might be incurred at a time when the merchants could best spare their slaves . Their method of travelling was to sling a dozen of the ne- groes across the ...
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... tion , a particular account of the Memnonian statue , which , in spite of the attestations , Cambyses is said to have previously thrown down . Denon , however , following Herodotus and Strabo , maintains that the two sitting figures are ...
... tion , a particular account of the Memnonian statue , which , in spite of the attestations , Cambyses is said to have previously thrown down . Denon , however , following Herodotus and Strabo , maintains that the two sitting figures are ...
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... tion , and differing chiefly in magnitude . This seems to have been the case with Denon's feelings , who exclaims rather petulantly among the ruins of Thebes , Still temples , nothing but temples ! no walls , quays , bridges , baths ...
... tion , and differing chiefly in magnitude . This seems to have been the case with Denon's feelings , who exclaims rather petulantly among the ruins of Thebes , Still temples , nothing but temples ! no walls , quays , bridges , baths ...
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... tion to be strictly true , of which we have very great doubts , as well as of the position of the well of Syene being at any time immediately under the tropic , he fixes the precise era when astrono- my was in the most flourishing state ...
... tion to be strictly true , of which we have very great doubts , as well as of the position of the well of Syene being at any time immediately under the tropic , he fixes the precise era when astrono- my was in the most flourishing state ...
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... tion and professional acquirement would be least observed ; and accordingly we may say - to borrow a happy expression of Louis the XVIth's , relative to one of his chaplains who had preached a flowery sermon on all things but religion ...
... tion and professional acquirement would be least observed ; and accordingly we may say - to borrow a happy expression of Louis the XVIth's , relative to one of his chaplains who had preached a flowery sermon on all things but religion ...
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