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... Ibrahim Pacha subdued the Wahaby kingdom , and which continued to occupy the country for seve- ral years , did not fail to collect , and to make public , an amount of detailed information regarding Nejd , such as only their posi- tion ...
... Ibrahim Pacha subdued the Wahaby kingdom , and which continued to occupy the country for seve- ral years , did not fail to collect , and to make public , an amount of detailed information regarding Nejd , such as only their posi- tion ...
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... Ibrahim Pacha . Had the father of Abd - Allah , who died before the Egyptians invaded Nejd , sur- vived to conduct the war , the result would probably have been disastrous to the Egyptian army . Mr. Palgrave gives us in some detail ...
... Ibrahim Pacha . Had the father of Abd - Allah , who died before the Egyptians invaded Nejd , sur- vived to conduct the war , the result would probably have been disastrous to the Egyptian army . Mr. Palgrave gives us in some detail ...
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... Ibrahim Pacha and Abd - Allah , the Wahaby ruler , which he describes as having been fought not far from Shakra , and as having lasted two days , is altogether fabulous . Mr. Palgrave must have been the dupe of some Arab wag , who ...
... Ibrahim Pacha and Abd - Allah , the Wahaby ruler , which he describes as having been fought not far from Shakra , and as having lasted two days , is altogether fabulous . Mr. Palgrave must have been the dupe of some Arab wag , who ...
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... Ibrahim , the Arab - Turk , commander - in - chief of that kind - natured pirate , Koorshid Aga , started on his raid , Mr. Baker started also , with the hopeless plan of outmarching him , arriving first at the village of Ellyria , and ...
... Ibrahim , the Arab - Turk , commander - in - chief of that kind - natured pirate , Koorshid Aga , started on his raid , Mr. Baker started also , with the hopeless plan of outmarching him , arriving first at the village of Ellyria , and ...
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... ( Ibrahim ) was sure to be hung ; Mrs. Baker followed in a milder strain . The result was that a truce was concluded ; the Bakers promis- ing ivory , and Ibrahim promising friendship , but warning them against coming near his men at ...
... ( Ibrahim ) was sure to be hung ; Mrs. Baker followed in a milder strain . The result was that a truce was concluded ; the Bakers promis- ing ivory , and Ibrahim promising friendship , but warning them against coming near his men at ...
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Page 79 - ... so far as it went; but it did not go far enough. The...
Page 395 - Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.
Page 147 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 116 - Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind.
Page 22 - Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!
Page 97 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 99 - Well gentlemen, though Faustus' end be such As every Christian heart laments to think on, Yet for he was a Scholar, once admired For wondrous knowledge in our German schools, We'll give his mangled limbs due burial: And all the Students, cloth'd in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral.
Page 129 - When in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine...
Page 99 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page 225 - sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species.