The Quarterly Review, Band 161John Murray, 1885 |
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... Pasha's army ; the waste of life at Suakim ; the despatch of Gordon to slow torture and certain death ; the massacres at Sinkat , Tokar , and Berber ; the desertion and death of Gordon ; the massacre at Khartoum ; finally , the ...
... Pasha's army ; the waste of life at Suakim ; the despatch of Gordon to slow torture and certain death ; the massacres at Sinkat , Tokar , and Berber ; the desertion and death of Gordon ; the massacre at Khartoum ; finally , the ...
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... Pasha broke his up at Assuan and marched southwards in search of gold , slaves , and glory . In 1820 Muhammed Ali determined to subdue all the countries lying south of Wady Halfa . His avowed motive was to put an end to the disorders ...
... Pasha broke his up at Assuan and marched southwards in search of gold , slaves , and glory . In 1820 Muhammed Ali determined to subdue all the countries lying south of Wady Halfa . His avowed motive was to put an end to the disorders ...
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... Pasha was in many respects well fitted to lead an expedition to the then unknown countries of the Upper Nile , and carry out the ambitious scheme of his father . On the 5th of October Ismail left Wady Halfa . On the 4th of November he ...
... Pasha was in many respects well fitted to lead an expedition to the then unknown countries of the Upper Nile , and carry out the ambitious scheme of his father . On the 5th of October Ismail left Wady Halfa . On the 4th of November he ...
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... Pasha ordered his Janissaries to beat a woman of Mahass to death for refusing to accept Egyptian money , and when his soldiers plundered peaceful villagers , and violated their wives and daughters ; it closed , consistently , last May ...
... Pasha ordered his Janissaries to beat a woman of Mahass to death for refusing to accept Egyptian money , and when his soldiers plundered peaceful villagers , and violated their wives and daughters ; it closed , consistently , last May ...
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... Pasha arrived and filled every one with fresh life and energy . Ibrahim had come up the Nile with the fixed determination of extending his brother's conquests , and he soon matured his plan of operations . It was to divide the Egyptian ...
... Pasha arrived and filled every one with fresh life and energy . Ibrahim had come up the Nile with the fixed determination of extending his brother's conquests , and he soon matured his plan of operations . It was to divide the Egyptian ...
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Seite 333 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.
Seite 55 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Seite 141 - Good-night to the Season! the dances, The fillings of hot little rooms, The glancings of rapturous glances, The fancyings of fancy costumes; The pleasures which fashion makes duties, The praisings of fiddles and flutes, The luxury of looking at beauties, The tedium of talking to mutes; The female diplomatists, planners Of matches for Laura and Jane, The ice of her Ladyship's manners, The ice of his Lordship's champagne.
Seite 161 - I had a card from Lady Caroline Petersham to go with her to Vauxhall. I went accordingly to her house, and found her and the little Ashe, or the pollard Ashe, as they call her ; they had just finished their last layer of red, and looked as handsome as crimson could make them.
Seite 211 - Holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church ; Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Seite 267 - I must get others ; but what is obtained is ' — and here he used most remarkable words — ' that the conspiracy which has been used to get up boycotting and outrages, will now be used to put them down...
Seite 162 - ... china dish, which Lady Caroline stewed over a lamp with three pats of butter and a flagon of water, stirring, and rattling, and laughing, and we every minute expecting to have the dish fly about our ears. She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries from Rogers's, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by us at a little table. The conversation was no less lively than the whole transaction.
Seite 299 - ... saith the Lord of hosts: According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: And I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
Seite 403 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he do not work upon the compassion of some of her guests.
Seite 360 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.