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" The common benefits of water are an object of desire and contest ; and such is the scarcity of wood that some art is requisite to preserve and propagate the element of fire. "
The Mississippi Valley: Its Physical Geography, Including Sketches of the ... - Page 128
by John Wells Foster - 1869 - 443 pages
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A New Graded Spelling-book, a Complete Course in Spelling for Schools and ...

Joseph A. Graves - 1900 - 170 pages
...southwest, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapor; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean,...armies, have been lost and buried in the whirlwind. CIV. The common benefits of water are an object of desire and contest; and such is the scarcity of...
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Cathcart's Literary Reader: A Manual of English Literature : Being Typical ...

George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...southwest, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapor; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean,...navigable rivers, which fertilize the soil, and convey its produce to the adjacent regions ; the torrents that fall from the hills are imbibed by the thirsty...
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Gesammelte Schriften und Denkwürdigkeiten: Bd. Briefe über Zustande und ...

Helmuth Graf von Moltke - Europe - 1893 - 670 pages
...and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan , could never achieve the conquest of Arabia." 245) ©ibbon VI, 250: .,The common benefits of -water are an object of desire and contest." 246) ©ibbon VI, 261: „They pretend, that, in the division of the earth, the rich and fertile climates...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 5

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1923 - 578 pages
...south-west, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapour ; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean...whirlwind. The common benefits of water are an object of <Jesire ^ffid" contest ; and such is the scarcflj^ofwood that some art is requisite to preserve and...
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Composition-rhetoric: Designed for Use in Secondary Schools

Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1897 - 426 pages
...southwest, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapor; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean,...navigable rivers, which fertilize the soil and convey its produce to the adjacent regions; the torrents that fall from the hills are imbibed by the thirsty earth;...
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 5

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 640 pages
...and oven deadly vapor ; the hillocks of sand which they alternate^ raise and scatter, are compare i to the billows of the ocean, and whole caravans, whole...navigable rivers, which fertilize the soil, and convey its produce to the adjacent regions : the torrents that fall from the hills are imbibed by the thirsty...
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 5

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 676 pages
...the SW, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapor; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean,...navigable rivers, which fertilize the soil, and convey ita produce to the adjacent regions: the torrents that fall from the hills are imbibed by the thirsty...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 5

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 570 pages
...south-west, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapour; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean...preserve and propagate the element of fire. Arabia opened to us the Arabia of Abulfeda, the most copious and correct account of the peninsula, which may...
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The History of Nations, Volume 1

Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 612 pages
...southwest, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapor; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean,...navigable rivers, which fertilize the soil and convey its produce to the adjacent regions; the torrents that fall from the hills are imbibed by the thirsty earth;...
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Ancient Empires of the East

Archibald Henry Sayce - Arabian Peninsula - 1906 - 612 pages
...southwest, diffuse a noxious and even deadly vapor; the hillocks of sand which they alternately raise and scatter are compared to the billows of the ocean,...scarcity of wood that some art is requisite to preserve anil propagate the element of fire. Arabia is destitute of navigable rivers, which fertilize the soil...
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