The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen48A. Constable, 1828 |
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... course , unto the present time , we do not know for certain that any one hath passed ; and for this purpose bestowed great favours upon me , ennobling me , that thenceforward I might style myself Don , appoint- ing me high admiral of ...
... course , unto the present time , we do not know for certain that any one hath passed ; and for this purpose bestowed great favours upon me , ennobling me , that thenceforward I might style myself Don , appoint- ing me high admiral of ...
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... course of time , they found themselves at the extremity of Florida . Here , abandoning the northern continent , they passed over to the Lucayos , and from thence gradually , in the process of years , from island to island of that vast ...
... course of time , they found themselves at the extremity of Florida . Here , abandoning the northern continent , they passed over to the Lucayos , and from thence gradually , in the process of years , from island to island of that vast ...
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... course , standing eastward for Hispaniola : " his people , " as he says , " dismayed and down - hearted , almost all his anchors lost , and his ves- sels bored as full of holes as a honeycomb . " 2 His proud career seemed now to be ...
... course , standing eastward for Hispaniola : " his people , " as he says , " dismayed and down - hearted , almost all his anchors lost , and his ves- sels bored as full of holes as a honeycomb . " 2 His proud career seemed now to be ...
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... course of time only could have brought about . The origin of the intermixture is therefore lost in the remotest and ob- scurest antiquity ; and having been carried on through a long course of ages , a heterogeneous mass is everywhere ...
... course of time only could have brought about . The origin of the intermixture is therefore lost in the remotest and ob- scurest antiquity ; and having been carried on through a long course of ages , a heterogeneous mass is everywhere ...
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... course , in a greater or lesser degree , the vices which must be expected to attend on arbitrary government , a demoralizing and absurd religion , and ( in all the independent states , and in some of the districts which are partially ...
... course , in a greater or lesser degree , the vices which must be expected to attend on arbitrary government , a demoralizing and absurd religion , and ( in all the independent states , and in some of the districts which are partially ...
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Página 297 - ... their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he differed in opinion, he did not hesitate to express it firmly, yet at the same time with modesty. I do not remember any part of his conversation distinctly enough to be quoted ; nor did I ever see him again, except in the street, where he did not recognise me, as I could not expect he should. He was much caressed in Edinburgh : but (considering what literary emoluments...
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