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... letters and science who adorned their birth- place or spread its fame in other lands . The poems of Callimachus , a Cyrenean of noble birth , prove that the noblest exercise of genius was not neglected . But the brightest lustre is shed ...
... letters and science who adorned their birth- place or spread its fame in other lands . The poems of Callimachus , a Cyrenean of noble birth , prove that the noblest exercise of genius was not neglected . But the brightest lustre is shed ...
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... letters then can only be conveyed from Malta by Tripoli , whence there is a weekly courier who comes in thirteen days . I stowed myself on the deck of the brigantine , in a box ten feet by five , and about three and a half high , which ...
... letters then can only be conveyed from Malta by Tripoli , whence there is a weekly courier who comes in thirteen days . I stowed myself on the deck of the brigantine , in a box ten feet by five , and about three and a half high , which ...
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... letters deeply carved . They are the builders ' marks , and here are all Greek characters , though the lying on its side ( D ) , and the ( Y ) look strange . Among the most frequent are THO¶YE . The stones were doubtless thus marked in ...
... letters deeply carved . They are the builders ' marks , and here are all Greek characters , though the lying on its side ( D ) , and the ( Y ) look strange . Among the most frequent are THO¶YE . The stones were doubtless thus marked in ...
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... letters to him . His residence is a castle , which I found him still engaged in building , at Caicab , a place about four hours distant from Grennah , lying between the two roads to Derna ; and from here , with the fifty soldiers who ...
... letters to him . His residence is a castle , which I found him still engaged in building , at Caicab , a place about four hours distant from Grennah , lying between the two roads to Derna ; and from here , with the fifty soldiers who ...
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... letters with their answers were scattered round him , in what seemed inextricable confusion . After all the usual inquiries after health and temper , and when coffee and lemonade had been served , the Bey resumed his business , while ...
... letters with their answers were scattered round him , in what seemed inextricable confusion . After all the usual inquiries after health and temper , and when coffee and lemonade had been served , the Bey resumed his business , while ...
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