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... face to face encounter , of Suleiman the Magnificent , or his paean to the camel ; but this passage shows well how far an ambassador could penetrate popular feeling as no tourist could . While I was at Constantinople , a man who had ...
... face to face encounter , of Suleiman the Magnificent , or his paean to the camel ; but this passage shows well how far an ambassador could penetrate popular feeling as no tourist could . While I was at Constantinople , a man who had ...
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... face , and confirm myself in those resolutions I had always undertaken , which were rather to lose my life a thousand times , than my praeputium once . Thus feigning myself to be at my prayers , I held my book , which I had no great maw ...
... face , and confirm myself in those resolutions I had always undertaken , which were rather to lose my life a thousand times , than my praeputium once . Thus feigning myself to be at my prayers , I held my book , which I had no great maw ...
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... face might be traced on its weatherbeaten surface . In consequence of the ground sloping to the south , this tumulus appears much higher when viewed from the side of Sardis than from any other . It rises at an angle of about 22 ° , and ...
... face might be traced on its weatherbeaten surface . In consequence of the ground sloping to the south , this tumulus appears much higher when viewed from the side of Sardis than from any other . It rises at an angle of about 22 ° , and ...
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