The Quarterly Review, Volumes 262-263William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1934 |
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... Piracy . By Philip Gosse . Longmans , 1932 . MORE moonshine has been written about pirates than about almost any other class of person : it has even been forgotten that they were , after all , men - or women . Almost as soon as we hear ...
... Piracy . By Philip Gosse . Longmans , 1932 . MORE moonshine has been written about pirates than about almost any other class of person : it has even been forgotten that they were , after all , men - or women . Almost as soon as we hear ...
Page 143
... piracy came soon after the defeat of Greece by Rome and the destruction of Carthage ( Carthago delenda est ) . The greatest pirate - exterminator was Pompey . But ' with the eclipse of the Roman civilisation , even piracy itself ...
... piracy came soon after the defeat of Greece by Rome and the destruction of Carthage ( Carthago delenda est ) . The greatest pirate - exterminator was Pompey . But ' with the eclipse of the Roman civilisation , even piracy itself ...
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... piracy is that of William Kidd , yet if Kidd's reputation was in just proportion to his actual deeds , he would have been forgotten as soon as he had been " turned off " at Wapping Old Stairs . His fame in piracy was as undeserved as ...
... piracy is that of William Kidd , yet if Kidd's reputation was in just proportion to his actual deeds , he would have been forgotten as soon as he had been " turned off " at Wapping Old Stairs . His fame in piracy was as undeserved as ...
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