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An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids

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 In the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of mysterious reality as that of an Oriental city.  We knew it was actually there, but had such vague notions of its ways and looks!  Let any one remember his early impressions as to Bagdad or Grand Cairo, and then say if this was not so.  It was p...


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A Ride across Palestine

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 Circumstances took me to the Holy Land without a companion, and compelled me to visit Bethany, the Mount of Olives, and the Church of the Sepulchre alone.  I acknowledge myself to be a gregarious animal, or, perhaps, rather one of those which nature has intended to go in pairs.  At any rate I dislike solitude, and especially travellin...


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The master of St. Benedict\'s

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 The success and the distinction had come early in life, and the love had come late. In the nature of things it could not have come earlier. It came in time to crown the rest of the good gifts that Providence had poured into the lap of the Master of St. Benedict\'s. It had been his already for twenty years, and it was his still. Surely...


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A View of Society and Manners in Italy

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 Having left Vienna, we proceeded through the Duchies of Stiria, Carinthia, and Carniola, to Venice. Notwithstanding the mountainous nature of those countries, the roads are remarkably good. They were formed originally at a vast expence of labour to the inhabitants, but in such a durable manner, that it requires[2] no great trouble to ...


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Thuvia, Maid of Mars

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 Upon a massive bench of polished ersite beneath the gorgeous blooms of a giant pimalia a woman sat. Her shapely, sandalled foot tapped impatiently upon the jewel-strewn walk that wound beneath the stately sorapus trees across the scarlet sward of the royal gardens of Thuvan Dihn, Jeddak of Ptarth, as a dark-haired, red-skinned warrior...


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