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... receiving but a cold answer , applied to Charles , the emperor . How many letters , what precepts , what messages , what threats , have been sent to you to apprehend him , and it is not yet done . Why ? Because you could ELOQUENCE . 5.
... receiving but a cold answer , applied to Charles , the emperor . How many letters , what precepts , what messages , what threats , have been sent to you to apprehend him , and it is not yet done . Why ? Because you could ELOQUENCE . 5.
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... received his full ration . difficulty of subsistence would augment in consequence of the evil disposition of the inhabitants towards us . To feed the Jaffa prisoners while we kept them with us , was not only to increase our wants , but ...
... received his full ration . difficulty of subsistence would augment in consequence of the evil disposition of the inhabitants towards us . To feed the Jaffa prisoners while we kept them with us , was not only to increase our wants , but ...
Page 30
... received an eternal adieu . Their courageous spirits appeared to defy death ; you saw in their tran- quillity the confidence which in these last moments was inspired by their religion , and the hope of a happy here- after . They seemed ...
... received an eternal adieu . Their courageous spirits appeared to defy death ; you saw in their tran- quillity the confidence which in these last moments was inspired by their religion , and the hope of a happy here- after . They seemed ...
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... received in their limbs the blows aimed at the heart , which would at once have terminated their wretched lives . Then was there formed , since it must be related , a dreadful pyramid of the dead and of the dying streaming with blood ...
... received in their limbs the blows aimed at the heart , which would at once have terminated their wretched lives . Then was there formed , since it must be related , a dreadful pyramid of the dead and of the dying streaming with blood ...
Page 62
... received . It will account for the exclusive attention of those true believers to the concerns of the present moment , and their carelessness about futurity ; for their implicit obe- dience to the easy injunctions of the Koran , and ...
... received . It will account for the exclusive attention of those true believers to the concerns of the present moment , and their carelessness about futurity ; for their implicit obe- dience to the easy injunctions of the Koran , and ...
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