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The Khyberees are a lean but muscular race , with large gaunt faces , high noses and cheekbones , and black complexions ; whereas most of the Berdooraunee tribes have fair complexions , grey eyes and red beards .
The Khyberees are a lean but muscular race , with large gaunt faces , high noses and cheekbones , and black complexions ; whereas most of the Berdooraunee tribes have fair complexions , grey eyes and red beards .
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The following passage gives a favourable specimen of M. de Humboldt's talent for composition , and shews with what a happy facility he seizes upon common objects , and renders them interesting • When we begin to fix our eyes on ...
The following passage gives a favourable specimen of M. de Humboldt's talent for composition , and shews with what a happy facility he seizes upon common objects , and renders them interesting • When we begin to fix our eyes on ...
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... and executed under his eye ; and it is but right to confess that , considering their size and extent , we think it hardly possible that Phidias ( even if he thid work in marble ) could have had a much greater share in these ...
... and executed under his eye ; and it is but right to confess that , considering their size and extent , we think it hardly possible that Phidias ( even if he thid work in marble ) could have had a much greater share in these ...
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A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 14 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1815 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 23 Feb 2017 |
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