Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 168W. Blackwood, 1900 - Scotland |
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... honours of a living Sultan in the royal palanquin , in order that he might forestall his rivals and seat the young Abdul Aziz , the present Sultan , on the throne before the world in general knew that Mulai el Hassen was dead . It was ...
... honours of a living Sultan in the royal palanquin , in order that he might forestall his rivals and seat the young Abdul Aziz , the present Sultan , on the throne before the world in general knew that Mulai el Hassen was dead . It was ...
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... honour and interests . They say that the old barber - surgeons were taught how to let blood by puncturing the veins of a cabbage - leaf . Suppose the teacher had said , " But I can't afford to give you a cabbage- leaf for practice ...
... honour and interests . They say that the old barber - surgeons were taught how to let blood by puncturing the veins of a cabbage - leaf . Suppose the teacher had said , " But I can't afford to give you a cabbage- leaf for practice ...
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... honour , are among their wants to make the army a pro- best prerogatives . fession for very poor men , and thus necessarily for them alone , because men of means would be precluded from spending their money , she must herself begin by ...
... honour , are among their wants to make the army a pro- best prerogatives . fession for very poor men , and thus necessarily for them alone , because men of means would be precluded from spending their money , she must herself begin by ...
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... honour of their guests . Large quantities of salads , radishes , and fruit are eaten in their season , and eggs , milk , curds After due reflection , we fan- cied that we might get out of a difficulty by ordering our meals at the hotel ...
... honour of their guests . Large quantities of salads , radishes , and fruit are eaten in their season , and eggs , milk , curds After due reflection , we fan- cied that we might get out of a difficulty by ordering our meals at the hotel ...
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... honour that they made no ablutionary use of it , and that the deep pools seemed to them better fitted for cleaning the fish and part- ridges in . From our tent - doors we looked straight down seven miles of blue Cogawanna water . Soon ...
... honour that they made no ablutionary use of it , and that the deep pools seemed to them better fitted for cleaning the fish and part- ridges in . From our tent - doors we looked straight down seven miles of blue Cogawanna water . Soon ...
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