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Page 165
... Araby Pacha and the so - called national party have determined to destroy . This brings me to the next factor - the Turkish party . The Turks , it should always be remembered , are as completely foreigners in Egypt as the English or the ...
... Araby Pacha and the so - called national party have determined to destroy . This brings me to the next factor - the Turkish party . The Turks , it should always be remembered , are as completely foreigners in Egypt as the English or the ...
Page 167
... Araby or any other military intriguer from employing the weapon which the late Viceroy had placed in the hands of the army . But Ismail was deposed in favour of a prince of a far more scrupulous and kindly character , while the mode of ...
... Araby or any other military intriguer from employing the weapon which the late Viceroy had placed in the hands of the army . But Ismail was deposed in favour of a prince of a far more scrupulous and kindly character , while the mode of ...
Page 168
conditions of Egypt , and if it had not been Araby , it would have been Toulba or Abdallah . Araby , in as far as my observation goes , is a Pacha very like the rest , neither much worse nor better than his fellows . He desires power in ...
conditions of Egypt , and if it had not been Araby , it would have been Toulba or Abdallah . Araby , in as far as my observation goes , is a Pacha very like the rest , neither much worse nor better than his fellows . He desires power in ...
Page 169
... Araby threatened to cut him in two unless he persisted in the demand ; and Sultan forthwith gave way . So it was with all of them . The Chamber of Notables was a mere court of record to register the will of the ruling power , who at ...
... Araby threatened to cut him in two unless he persisted in the demand ; and Sultan forthwith gave way . So it was with all of them . The Chamber of Notables was a mere court of record to register the will of the ruling power , who at ...
Page 170
... Araby and his fellow - conspirators should be punished . This , indeed , is essential not only for the pacification of Egypt , but for the vindication of our own outraged honour . The old army must be disbanded , and a new army must be ...
... Araby and his fellow - conspirators should be punished . This , indeed , is essential not only for the pacification of Egypt , but for the vindication of our own outraged honour . The old army must be disbanded , and a new army must be ...
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Page 895 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
Page 322 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Page 911 - And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not, Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness, To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still...
Page 514 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Page 74 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray...
Page 228 - ... only. I once mentioned in a school-report, how a young man in one of our English training colleges having to paraphrase the passage in Macbeth beginning, ' Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased?' turned this line into, 'Can you not wait upon the lunatic...
Page 395 - Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry...
Page 874 - ... and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? " The chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually...
Page 390 - Their gates wide open threw. And now, as he went bowing down His reeking head full low, The bottles twain behind his back Were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, Most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke As they had basted been. But still he seemed to carry weight, With leathern girdle braced : ' For all might see the bottle necks Still dangling at his waist.
Page 520 - Act, in which premises, room, or place, or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which premises, any manual labour is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain...