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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... events and drawing various conclusions . Whenever I have found an important deduction expressed in fewer and better words than I could hope to render it in myself , I have not hesitated to adopt the passage , as I have been more anxious ...
... events and drawing various conclusions . Whenever I have found an important deduction expressed in fewer and better words than I could hope to render it in myself , I have not hesitated to adopt the passage , as I have been more anxious ...
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... event which helped to form the 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 ...
... event which helped to form the 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 ...
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... event , and whilst the various states of which Greece was com- posed were slowly recovering from its effects , that the inhabitants of the Peloponnesus ( now the Morea ) were alarmed at the invasion of the Heraclidæ , or descendants of ...
... event , and whilst the various states of which Greece was com- posed were slowly recovering from its effects , that the inhabitants of the Peloponnesus ( now the Morea ) were alarmed at the invasion of the Heraclidæ , or descendants of ...
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... the Greeks , and gave a finishing stroke to the events of the day , -for the scattered vessels of the Persians , in flying from the scene of engagement , were encountered by another storm , which drove them on the coasts of Thessaly.
... the Greeks , and gave a finishing stroke to the events of the day , -for the scattered vessels of the Persians , in flying from the scene of engagement , were encountered by another storm , which drove them on the coasts of Thessaly.
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... event , they made another hostile descent upon Sicily , and with better success , for they took one or two towns , and carried off much booty ; the cruelty with which they followed up their victories , is strong evidence of the lawless ...
... event , they made another hostile descent upon Sicily , and with better success , for they took one or two towns , and carried off much booty ; the cruelty with which they followed up their victories , is strong evidence of the lawless ...
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