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From: | Lewie Gay |
Subject: | [Ci-development] forcible |
Date: | Fri, 8 Sep 2006 17:43:56 +0200 |
Since I wastheir fellow, I will not be their
apologist or advocate. Another range of inhabited hills, facing the Indian Ocean,
was thesouth edge of the parallelogram. It would be impertinent in me to praise
them. He attained a sure trust anda powerful trust, but of how narrow a
field!
This, they toldme, is the best: it has no taste. On
the westit was bounded by the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, and the Red Sea
toAden.
By day the hot sun fermented us; and we weredizzied
by the beating wind.
Greater than the Ahad was the Fetah, the society of
freedom in Syria. We no doubtenjoyed more the rare moments of peace and
forgetfulness; but Iremember more the.
For the people of the desert were as little static
as the people of thehills. Man in all thingslived candidly with man.
All our subjectprovinces to me were not worth one
dead Englishman.
Islam in various transformations wassubjecting
Africa and parts of Asia. The Arabic-speaking areas of Asia in this sense were a
roughparallelogram. At night we were stained by dew, andshamed into pettiness by the
innumerable silences of stars.
TheCabinet raised the Arabs to fight for us by
definite promises ofself-government afterwards.
I am proudest of my thirtyfights in that I did not
have any of our own blood shed. Their convictions were by instinct,their activities
intuitional.
This faith of the desert was impossible in the
towns. Semites had no half-tones in their register of vision.
None of them hadbeen of the wilderness; but their
lives were after a pattern.
Consequently the surplus peasantry found openings
inthe towns, and were there swallowed up.
Then he is exploiting his old environment to press
them out oftheirs.
Deprived of constitutional outlets theybecame
revolutionary.
Islam in various transformations wassubjecting
Africa and parts of Asia. He attained a sure trust anda powerful trust, but of how
narrow a field!
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