The Quarterly Review, Volume 11William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1814 |
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... Ship- builders and others interested in the Building and Equipment of Ships built in the East Indies , were referred , & c . Ordered , by the House of Commons , to be printed . 4. The Substance of the Speech of John Adolphus , Esq . on ...
... Ship- builders and others interested in the Building and Equipment of Ships built in the East Indies , were referred , & c . Ordered , by the House of Commons , to be printed . 4. The Substance of the Speech of John Adolphus , Esq . on ...
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... ship in search of the island of Bimini , where the Spanish conquerors as well as the Indians firmly believed there ... ships may pass , both with a N. E. and S. W. monsoon : the harbour is capacious and excellent ; Mr. Fontana says it ...
... ship in search of the island of Bimini , where the Spanish conquerors as well as the Indians firmly believed there ... ships may pass , both with a N. E. and S. W. monsoon : the harbour is capacious and excellent ; Mr. Fontana says it ...
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... Ships may ride there in perfect security about half a mile from shore , sheltered from all winds . This natural advantage did not however induce the Dutch to make a second attempt , and the next adventurers who tried their fortune in ...
... Ships may ride there in perfect security about half a mile from shore , sheltered from all winds . This natural advantage did not however induce the Dutch to make a second attempt , and the next adventurers who tried their fortune in ...
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... ships ; a few old English newspapers were found in a trunk belonging to an English gentleman on board , who had escaped from Hyder - ally , and this , says M. Haensel , was pretence sufficient for a Frenchman to seize upon a neutral ...
... ships ; a few old English newspapers were found in a trunk belonging to an English gentleman on board , who had escaped from Hyder - ally , and this , says M. Haensel , was pretence sufficient for a Frenchman to seize upon a neutral ...
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... ship early in the sixteenth century . If this account of their origin be authentic , they may have acquir- ed the habit of eating human flesh as they fell into wilder habits of life ; or they may have brought it with them , if any of ...
... ship early in the sixteenth century . If this account of their origin be authentic , they may have acquir- ed the habit of eating human flesh as they fell into wilder habits of life ; or they may have brought it with them , if any of ...
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