Egypt in 1898W. Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 283 páginas |
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... books of the Suez Company than they can ever be induced to cost in real life elsewhere ; that the little steam tramway carriages between Port Said and Ismailia run to almost double a fully appointed first - class coach on the THE CANAL ...
... books of the Suez Company than they can ever be induced to cost in real life elsewhere ; that the little steam tramway carriages between Port Said and Ismailia run to almost double a fully appointed first - class coach on the THE CANAL ...
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... book on his knees , swinging to and fro as regularly as a pendulum till he dips his forehead in the dust . He is neither a professor nor an under- graduate he has merely looked in for a little quiet devotion , to which Moslems consider ...
... book on his knees , swinging to and fro as regularly as a pendulum till he dips his forehead in the dust . He is neither a professor nor an under- graduate he has merely looked in for a little quiet devotion , to which Moslems consider ...
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... book in hand , are poring over some religious point which the half - blind professor monotonously expounds . I hope they are gaining profit ; but if you contrast the dead stolidity of the graduates with the twinkling eyes in the A B C ...
... book in hand , are poring over some religious point which the half - blind professor monotonously expounds . I hope they are gaining profit ; but if you contrast the dead stolidity of the graduates with the twinkling eyes in the A B C ...
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... - sometimes even producing the book itself to guarantee their reminiscences . For my part I have long repented my rash undertaking to keep a diary . Here are four days since Christmas and not a F line of entry to show for them . I wonder ...
... - sometimes even producing the book itself to guarantee their reminiscences . For my part I have long repented my rash undertaking to keep a diary . Here are four days since Christmas and not a F line of entry to show for them . I wonder ...
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... books till five ; that is just Egypt . For a man with a sense of humour transcending work , worry , anomaly , obstruc- tion , and summer - heat , Egypt must be a par- adise ; of a man without this it must soon break the heart . You must ...
... books till five ; that is just Egypt . For a man with a sense of humour transcending work , worry , anomaly , obstruc- tion , and summer - heat , Egypt must be a par- adise ; of a man without this it must soon break the heart . You must ...
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