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Page 19
... seditious journalists of the country with what in other lands would pass for a
high MODERN EGYPT 19.
... seditious journalists of the country with what in other lands would pass for a
high MODERN EGYPT 19.
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with what in other lands would pass for a high hand . The great obstacle in the
way of self - government is the prevailing illiteracy , despite the efforts to extend
and make comprehensive the school system . Sir Eldon Gorst , in 1911 , was ...
with what in other lands would pass for a high hand . The great obstacle in the
way of self - government is the prevailing illiteracy , despite the efforts to extend
and make comprehensive the school system . Sir Eldon Gorst , in 1911 , was ...
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The operator draws the bucket down , fills it in the river , and allows the weight of
the mud - balance to raise the water to a depression in the earth above , forming
a little pool from which the next shadouf higher up the face of the bank may pass
...
The operator draws the bucket down , fills it in the river , and allows the weight of
the mud - balance to raise the water to a depression in the earth above , forming
a little pool from which the next shadouf higher up the face of the bank may pass
...
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MOSQUES AND BAZAARS OF CAIRO IF the reader is content to follow in my
footsteps I through these pages , he will be forced to pass by Alexandria with
short shrift . It was our fortune to be landed there at night , after a dreary day
passed ...
MOSQUES AND BAZAARS OF CAIRO IF the reader is content to follow in my
footsteps I through these pages , he will be forced to pass by Alexandria with
short shrift . It was our fortune to be landed there at night , after a dreary day
passed ...
Page 31
The luggage had all been passed on to Cairo , practically innocent of customs
examination , and it seemed wise to follow it as closely as possible . As for
Alexandria , what cared we ? And what should care you ? Its ancient greatness is
...
The luggage had all been passed on to Cairo , practically innocent of customs
examination , and it seemed wise to follow it as closely as possible . As for
Alexandria , what cared we ? And what should care you ? Its ancient greatness is
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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