Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 156William Blackwood, 1894 - England |
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... tion against the existing régime . Discontent had long been smoul- dering among the warrior tribes that Mehemet Ali had subdued . A leader and head was all that was required to sweep the feeble representatives of the Khedive back to the ...
... tion against the existing régime . Discontent had long been smoul- dering among the warrior tribes that Mehemet Ali had subdued . A leader and head was all that was required to sweep the feeble representatives of the Khedive back to the ...
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... tion by a resort to war seems im- probable . With the decline of the dervish movement- -a decline now rapidly taking place the recluse of Jerboub may deem it desirable to send out his apostles to preach the tenets of his sect in the ...
... tion by a resort to war seems im- probable . With the decline of the dervish movement- -a decline now rapidly taking place the recluse of Jerboub may deem it desirable to send out his apostles to preach the tenets of his sect in the ...
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... tion that bears his name . Senoussi has shown no taste for strife . The Mahdi is not to be a man of war . But it is the unexpected which always happens in these lands , and the sheikh may find some day circumstances too strong for him ...
... tion that bears his name . Senoussi has shown no taste for strife . The Mahdi is not to be a man of war . But it is the unexpected which always happens in these lands , and the sheikh may find some day circumstances too strong for him ...
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... tion , and we instinctively suspect a motive . on Further it may be said , that how ever strongly a man may feel about religion , there is no subject on which he is more reticent him- self or more disinclined to invite confidence from a ...
... tion , and we instinctively suspect a motive . on Further it may be said , that how ever strongly a man may feel about religion , there is no subject on which he is more reticent him- self or more disinclined to invite confidence from a ...
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... tion ; and although one may feel justly indignant when the pretty goldfinches disappear from a fav- ourite common , to reappear in very cramped quarters in the dealer's shop , still there is consolation in the thought that the effect on ...
... tion ; and although one may feel justly indignant when the pretty goldfinches disappear from a fav- ourite common , to reappear in very cramped quarters in the dealer's shop , still there is consolation in the thought that the effect on ...
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