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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... fortune to witness when lingering on the sands of Scheveningen . Some peasants had come from the heart of Germany to seek for work ; many a long and weary day had they trudged persever- ingly on , and they were near their journey's end ...
... fortune to witness when lingering on the sands of Scheveningen . Some peasants had come from the heart of Germany to seek for work ; many a long and weary day had they trudged persever- ingly on , and they were near their journey's end ...
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... fortunes of a nation . During the period that Egypt was in the height of her prosperity , the shores of the Arabian Gulf were inhabited by certain tribes , whose modes of life were so different to those of the Egyptians , that they were ...
... fortunes of a nation . During the period that Egypt was in the height of her prosperity , the shores of the Arabian Gulf were inhabited by certain tribes , whose modes of life were so different to those of the Egyptians , that they were ...
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... fortunes at sea , or render them desirous of acquiring dominion over the ever - changing element . We need not look deeply to discover the reasons for this indifference . They were placed on the margin of a river which , from its ...
... fortunes at sea , or render them desirous of acquiring dominion over the ever - changing element . We need not look deeply to discover the reasons for this indifference . They were placed on the margin of a river which , from its ...
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... fortunes , whilst its proximity to Carthage made its acquisition , as we have seen , an object of desire to the inhabitants of that republic , and rendered it at all times a favourite resort of Carthaginian traders . But Sicily , at the ...
... fortunes , whilst its proximity to Carthage made its acquisition , as we have seen , an object of desire to the inhabitants of that republic , and rendered it at all times a favourite resort of Carthaginian traders . But Sicily , at the ...
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... fortune of war was thus turning against the emperor that his son Otho , who commanded the imperial fleet , fell in with Ziani , the doge of Venice , who was cruising in the Adriatic as the Pope's ally . A fierce engagement followed , in ...
... fortune of war was thus turning against the emperor that his son Otho , who commanded the imperial fleet , fell in with Ziani , the doge of Venice , who was cruising in the Adriatic as the Pope's ally . A fierce engagement followed , in ...
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Page 67 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
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