New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 102Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1854 |
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... things , he justly remarks , contrary to nature . Some called it Lake Dasfetidee , others the River of Devils , and some the river that is ever stinking . a pillar of salt . This has been not inaptly B 2 The Sites of the Doomed Cities . 3.
... things , he justly remarks , contrary to nature . Some called it Lake Dasfetidee , others the River of Devils , and some the river that is ever stinking . a pillar of salt . This has been not inaptly B 2 The Sites of the Doomed Cities . 3.
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... things to which the volcanic actions that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha , which keep alive the fires of Kirkuk , and the hot saline , sulphureous , and bituminous springs around the Dead Sea and in other places , are of a different order ...
... things to which the volcanic actions that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha , which keep alive the fires of Kirkuk , and the hot saline , sulphureous , and bituminous springs around the Dead Sea and in other places , are of a different order ...
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... things . Piastres and ghazis is all the Bedouin cares for . Is it any wonder , then , that M. de Saulcy , after having spoiled Abu Dahuk by his continual presents , should be deceived by this fellow ? Certainly the sharp eye of the ...
... things . Piastres and ghazis is all the Bedouin cares for . Is it any wonder , then , that M. de Saulcy , after having spoiled Abu Dahuk by his continual presents , should be deceived by this fellow ? Certainly the sharp eye of the ...
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... things behind in long rows , after they have subsided . Robinson and Smith , not to speak of other travellers , have also passed across this plain ; and , indeed , were I to mistrust my own eyes , I would have perfect confidence in the ...
... things behind in long rows , after they have subsided . Robinson and Smith , not to speak of other travellers , have also passed across this plain ; and , indeed , were I to mistrust my own eyes , I would have perfect confidence in the ...
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... things to say On the broken first fiddle he once used to play ; A puissant Premier then , I trow , But reduced to a ... thing , And big blue - book statistics ; And at SYDNEY HERBERT's revelations On the subject of transports , camps ...
... things to say On the broken first fiddle he once used to play ; A puissant Premier then , I trow , But reduced to a ... thing , And big blue - book statistics ; And at SYDNEY HERBERT's revelations On the subject of transports , camps ...
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