The Quarterly Review, Volume 237William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1922 |
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Pagina 61
... land , And come to where young Beauty , with bright eyes , Listless at noon , shall take thee in her hand , Tell her that nought in thy poor Master stirs Of art , or grace or song - that is not hers . ' The volume , in fact , was laid ...
... land , And come to where young Beauty , with bright eyes , Listless at noon , shall take thee in her hand , Tell her that nought in thy poor Master stirs Of art , or grace or song - that is not hers . ' The volume , in fact , was laid ...
Pagina 73
... land without choking the canals ; is itself free of salt ; has its annual flood in August , September , and October , securing both summer and winter crops ; traverses a valley with a climate mild enough to allow of Egyptian clover in ...
... land without choking the canals ; is itself free of salt ; has its annual flood in August , September , and October , securing both summer and winter crops ; traverses a valley with a climate mild enough to allow of Egyptian clover in ...
Pagina 76
... land sloping down to a salty lake in the centre which evaporated surplus drainage . On this land barley , wheat , and rice were grown for the ten years or so for which the bund lasted . . . . While Nasir Pasha's bund finally failed ...
... land sloping down to a salty lake in the centre which evaporated surplus drainage . On this land barley , wheat , and rice were grown for the ten years or so for which the bund lasted . . . . While Nasir Pasha's bund finally failed ...
Pagina 77
... land must be found . The squatter may be content with the primeval karad ( bucket lift ) , worked by an ox or horse or mule , under his own immediate and unremitting superintendence . But if he is enterprising , as most Arabs are , he ...
... land must be found . The squatter may be content with the primeval karad ( bucket lift ) , worked by an ox or horse or mule , under his own immediate and unremitting superintendence . But if he is enterprising , as most Arabs are , he ...
Pagina 84
... inscription , dated circa 2800 B.C. , how he caused the lands to dwell in security , he watered the land with waters of joy . ' EVELYN HOWELL . Art . 6. - POLITICAL DEMONOLOGY . 1. World Revolution 84 RIVER CONTROL IN MESOPOTAMIA.
... inscription , dated circa 2800 B.C. , how he caused the lands to dwell in security , he watered the land with waters of joy . ' EVELYN HOWELL . Art . 6. - POLITICAL DEMONOLOGY . 1. World Revolution 84 RIVER CONTROL IN MESOPOTAMIA.
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