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The general direction of the road between Baghdad and Hellah , ( a meanly - built town , containing six or seven thousand inhabitants ) is North and South ; the distance about forty - eight miles and the whole intermediate country ...
The general direction of the road between Baghdad and Hellah , ( a meanly - built town , containing six or seven thousand inhabitants ) is North and South ; the distance about forty - eight miles and the whole intermediate country ...
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Just as we were within the proper distance , it burst at once upon our sight , in the midst of rolling masses of thick black clouds , partially obscured by that kind of haze , whose indistinctness is one great cause of sublimity ...
Just as we were within the proper distance , it burst at once upon our sight , in the midst of rolling masses of thick black clouds , partially obscured by that kind of haze , whose indistinctness is one great cause of sublimity ...
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Cannon at a small distance ; with the Method ... but hitherto always imagined was impossible : -- that is , standing the shot of a cannon charged with a proper ball , and full quantity of powder , at the distance of only ten yards .
Cannon at a small distance ; with the Method ... but hitherto always imagined was impossible : -- that is , standing the shot of a cannon charged with a proper ball , and full quantity of powder , at the distance of only ten yards .
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Unfold my pages , and awhile attend , The moral measures of an early friend , Who ( thro ' the lapse of time perhaps forgot ) At distance views , and glories in your lot . 3 Of Simon Eyre I sing , how he began , ' Till like yourself ...
Unfold my pages , and awhile attend , The moral measures of an early friend , Who ( thro ' the lapse of time perhaps forgot ) At distance views , and glories in your lot . 3 Of Simon Eyre I sing , how he began , ' Till like yourself ...
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The foot - boy that fol . lowed Shenstone at some distance , was ordered to pursue with caution , and to discover if possible his retreat . few hours the lad returned , and informed his master , that he had followed the man to Hales ...
The foot - boy that fol . lowed Shenstone at some distance , was ordered to pursue with caution , and to discover if possible his retreat . few hours the lad returned , and informed his master , that he had followed the man to Hales ...
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