Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati, Native of Ferrara: Who, Under the Assumed Name of Mahomet, Made the Campaigns Against the Wahabees for the Recovery of Mecca and Medina; and Since Acted as Interpreter to European Travellers in Some Parts Least Visited of Asia and AfricaJ. Murray, 1830 - Middle East |
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... escape , and finding that severity and punishment were all that I gained by resistance , I passed several years in a sort of sullen conformity to my uncle's wishes . At last , just as I had completed my eighteenth year , a very ...
... escape , and finding that severity and punishment were all that I gained by resistance , I passed several years in a sort of sullen conformity to my uncle's wishes . At last , just as I had completed my eighteenth year , a very ...
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... escape might not present itself ? These several reflections and motives had all of them their weight with me in turn , and I therefore made up my mind to a voluntary surrender . My appearance had the immediate effect of setting free my ...
... escape might not present itself ? These several reflections and motives had all of them their weight with me in turn , and I therefore made up my mind to a voluntary surrender . My appearance had the immediate effect of setting free my ...
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... sometimes in ditches and holes in the earth ; so that a life of wretchedness and privation was all that I had gained by my escape . VOL . I. C Time , which discovers everything , at last brought to Ch . I. ] 17 OF GIOVANNI FINATI .
... sometimes in ditches and holes in the earth ; so that a life of wretchedness and privation was all that I had gained by my escape . VOL . I. C Time , which discovers everything , at last brought to Ch . I. ] 17 OF GIOVANNI FINATI .
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... escaped punishment altogether , for , on the contrary , it was immediate , though miti- gated so far as life was concerned . Early in the morning , all the regiment to which I belonged was paraded ; and after my head had been shaven ...
... escaped punishment altogether , for , on the contrary , it was immediate , though miti- gated so far as life was concerned . Early in the morning , all the regiment to which I belonged was paraded ; and after my head had been shaven ...
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... escape as being little less than a miracle , as in fact it was . Only two days after our landing , Ge- neral Marmont came over : and after re- viewing the whole reinforcement , gave orders that we should be distributed so as to form ...
... escape as being little less than a miracle , as in fact it was . Only two days after our landing , Ge- neral Marmont came over : and after re- viewing the whole reinforcement , gave orders that we should be distributed so as to form ...
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