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الصفحة 3 - The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves.
الصفحة 9 - FROM distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good...
الصفحة 2 - Athanasius, therefore, returned after an absence of six years. The mildness which he exercised towards his enemies was imitated in Gaul, Spain, Italy, and Greece, and restored peace to the church. But this peace was interrupted by the complaints of the heathen, whose temples the zeal of Athanasius kept always empty.
الصفحة 7 - I got my head upright, but for an instant only, when it fell on my right shoulder, and then I fell backwards, my back resting against the side of the car, and my head on its edge ; in this position my eyes were directed towards Mr.
الصفحة 7 - I was still conscious, with as active a brain as at the present moment while writing this. I thought I had been seized with asphyxia, and that I should experience no more, as death would come unless we speedily descended. Other thoughts were actively entering my mind, when I suddenly became unconscious as in going to sleep.