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... thousand and one pillars- The burnt porphyry column of Constantine - The tower of the Seraskier THE LIBRARIES . THE PATRIARCHS . OF THE PRINCES . · 267 THE ISLANDS The library of the Seraglio and its concealed treasures - Visit to the ...
... thousand and one pillars- The burnt porphyry column of Constantine - The tower of the Seraskier THE LIBRARIES . THE PATRIARCHS . OF THE PRINCES . · 267 THE ISLANDS The library of the Seraglio and its concealed treasures - Visit to the ...
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... thousand years have elapsed ; much splendour , infinite grandeur , have passed away : but his word , like the enduring sea , still in- cessantly resounds throughout the world , conveying the heart to this Island of Islands . Alexandria ...
... thousand years have elapsed ; much splendour , infinite grandeur , have passed away : but his word , like the enduring sea , still in- cessantly resounds throughout the world , conveying the heart to this Island of Islands . Alexandria ...
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... thousand Mamelukes . What a career lies between the position of the Colonel of Albanians of 1803 , and the Egyptian Viceroy of 1845 ! The Turkish governors of Egypt , such as Kosruf and Kurschid Pasha , were , notwithstanding their ...
... thousand Mamelukes . What a career lies between the position of the Colonel of Albanians of 1803 , and the Egyptian Viceroy of 1845 ! The Turkish governors of Egypt , such as Kosruf and Kurschid Pasha , were , notwithstanding their ...
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... Thousand and one Nights are lulled to rest , envelopes Oriental life as with a holy temple wall . To the Mahometans the muezzins are what our bells are to us . In Christian Europe we commercially measure hour after hour by quarters ...
... Thousand and one Nights are lulled to rest , envelopes Oriental life as with a holy temple wall . To the Mahometans the muezzins are what our bells are to us . In Christian Europe we commercially measure hour after hour by quarters ...
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... thousand asses incessantly going up and down the city with open water vessels for irrigation ; a regula- tion which does infinite credit to the board of health , for it is of the utmost importance to the poor ophthalmic sufferers who ...
... thousand asses incessantly going up and down the city with open water vessels for irrigation ; a regula- tion which does infinite credit to the board of health , for it is of the utmost importance to the poor ophthalmic sufferers who ...
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