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... called , from England to Eastern India , which command , and almost , so to speak , shut it in . These No. 81. VOL . XI . 1 CHAMBERS'S PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE . PHILADELPHIA : LIPPINCOTT ,. PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE . PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE .
... called , from England to Eastern India , which command , and almost , so to speak , shut it in . These No. 81. VOL . XI . 1 CHAMBERS'S PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE . PHILADELPHIA : LIPPINCOTT ,. PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE . PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE .
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... called , from England to Eastern India , which command , and almost , so to speak , shut it in . These No. 81. VOL . XI . 1 points or keys are Gibraltar , at the entrance of. PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE . THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ, 81.
... called , from England to Eastern India , which command , and almost , so to speak , shut it in . These No. 81. VOL . XI . 1 points or keys are Gibraltar , at the entrance of. PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE . THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ, 81.
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... called the Bitter Lake - the Lacus Amauri of Pliny , and Crocodile Sea of the Arabs - by means of the Pelusiac arm of the Nile with the great Lake Menzaleh on the north - west of the Isthmus , which has an outlet to the Mediterranean ...
... called the Bitter Lake - the Lacus Amauri of Pliny , and Crocodile Sea of the Arabs - by means of the Pelusiac arm of the Nile with the great Lake Menzaleh on the north - west of the Isthmus , which has an outlet to the Mediterranean ...
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... called by the Arabs to this day the Plain of Falastin . To the south of Suez is the Wilderness of Sin , and the pass of the Wadee Shelal , through which , according to Burckhardt and others , the despairing Israelites were led by Moses ...
... called by the Arabs to this day the Plain of Falastin . To the south of Suez is the Wilderness of Sin , and the pass of the Wadee Shelal , through which , according to Burckhardt and others , the despairing Israelites were led by Moses ...
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... called — which swept like a tempest of flame over a large portion of the earth . Persia embraced the faith ; Egypt , India , bowed their dusky fore- heads beneath the flashing sword of Islam ; Constantinople saw the sun go down upon the ...
... called — which swept like a tempest of flame over a large portion of the earth . Persia embraced the faith ; Egypt , India , bowed their dusky fore- heads beneath the flashing sword of Islam ; Constantinople saw the sun go down upon the ...
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Page 1 - And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Page 17 - For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as was before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Page 29 - ... jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions, but facts ; for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.
Page 27 - It is a plea available only to the defendant : no plaintiff can offer it as a supplementary ground of action. Thus, if any suit could be brought against Lord Byron, for the purpose of compelling him to put into court a certain quantity of poetry...
Page 2 - The gross exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive steam-engine (or, to speak in plain English, the steam-carriage), may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned.
Page 29 - It was conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air; precipices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the native bed; ravines of hideous depth were filled up with solid masonry ; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appal the most courageous engineer of modern times, were encountered and successfully overcome.
Page 27 - Byron, for the purpose of compelling him to put into court a certain quantity of poetry, and if judgment were given against him, it is highly probable that an exception would be taken were he to deliver for poetry the contents of this volume. To this he might plead minority; but, as he now makes voluntary tender of the article, he hath no right to sue, on that ground, for the price in good current praise, should the goods be unmarketable.
Page 29 - ... -down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer...
Page 32 - ... rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants.