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... interest and honour . " In our days , a scene like this in a public school would not excite much surprise . A thousand years ago , for such is the distance of time of which we are writing , it was little less than marvellous , for the ...
... interest and honour . " In our days , a scene like this in a public school would not excite much surprise . A thousand years ago , for such is the distance of time of which we are writing , it was little less than marvellous , for the ...
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... interest , you will accept a ransom , and restore me to my country . " " And what , " replied the Turk , " would have been your own behaviour had you been the victor ? " But not even discretion could restrain imperial and Roman contempt ...
... interest , you will accept a ransom , and restore me to my country . " " And what , " replied the Turk , " would have been your own behaviour had you been the victor ? " But not even discretion could restrain imperial and Roman contempt ...
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... interests of his subjects were diligently promoted . The expedition into Turkestan proved a fatal one . Leaving Bagdad , the Sultan traversed the country eastwards some hundreds of miles to the banks of the ancient river Oxus , now ...
... interests of his subjects were diligently promoted . The expedition into Turkestan proved a fatal one . Leaving Bagdad , the Sultan traversed the country eastwards some hundreds of miles to the banks of the ancient river Oxus , now ...
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... interest , you will accept a ransom , and restore me to my country . " " And what , " replied the Turk , " would have been your own behaviour had you been the victor ? " But not even discretion could restrain imperial and Roman contempt ...
... interest , you will accept a ransom , and restore me to my country . " " And what , " replied the Turk , " would have been your own behaviour had you been the victor ? " But not even discretion could restrain imperial and Roman contempt ...
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... interests of his subjects were diligently promoted . The expedition into Turkestan proved a fatal one . Leaving Bagdad , the Sultan traversed the country eastwards some hundreds of miles to the banks of the ancient river Oxus , now ...
... interests of his subjects were diligently promoted . The expedition into Turkestan proved a fatal one . Leaving Bagdad , the Sultan traversed the country eastwards some hundreds of miles to the banks of the ancient river Oxus , now ...
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