Ocean and Her Rulers: A Narrative of the Nations which Have from the Earliest Ages Held Dominion Over the Sea, Comprising a Brief History of Navigation from the Remotest Periods to the Present Time |
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... Character - Pacification of Ghent - League of Utrecht - Seven United Provinces - Voyages of Discovery for a new Route to Cathay and China- " The Company for Remote Countries " -Oliver Van Noordt - First Dutch Voyage round the World ...
... Character - Pacification of Ghent - League of Utrecht - Seven United Provinces - Voyages of Discovery for a new Route to Cathay and China- " The Company for Remote Countries " -Oliver Van Noordt - First Dutch Voyage round the World ...
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... character which they had acquired in their two former situations , doubtless actuated them in the choice of their final settlement ; for their present abode was neither fertile nor fitted for the pasturing of cattle ; but it produced ...
... character which they had acquired in their two former situations , doubtless actuated them in the choice of their final settlement ; for their present abode was neither fertile nor fitted for the pasturing of cattle ; but it produced ...
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... character of the Greeks and served to mark another period of their history , it will be well to pause for a short space to contemplate some few of the islands . of the Mediterranean which at different times played no inconsiderable ...
... character of the Greeks and served to mark another period of their history , it will be well to pause for a short space to contemplate some few of the islands . of the Mediterranean which at different times played no inconsiderable ...
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... character of an envoy ; but casting one of the Persian heralds into a pit , and the other into a well , they furiously bade them to seek there the earth and water which their monarch needed . It may easily be supposed this act was not ...
... character of an envoy ; but casting one of the Persian heralds into a pit , and the other into a well , they furiously bade them to seek there the earth and water which their monarch needed . It may easily be supposed this act was not ...
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... character of the people they subdued , enervated by the riches and luxury procured from Asia , and with their ancient love of freedom and independence all but extinguished , yet could not but admire the wondrous learning , the ...
... character of the people they subdued , enervated by the riches and luxury procured from Asia , and with their ancient love of freedom and independence all but extinguished , yet could not but admire the wondrous learning , the ...
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