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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... produce a work which could be read by the young with profit , and which might not be deemed unworthy by the elders of a place on the shelves of their Library ; and to increase its utility as a book of reference I have added a complete ...
... produce a work which could be read by the young with profit , and which might not be deemed unworthy by the elders of a place on the shelves of their Library ; and to increase its utility as a book of reference I have added a complete ...
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... produced abundance of timber , with which they constructed their vessels . The skill they had gradually attained in fishing was now employed in grander projects , and Tyre and Sidon , the two great cities , soon rivalled each other in ...
... produced abundance of timber , with which they constructed their vessels . The skill they had gradually attained in fishing was now employed in grander projects , and Tyre and Sidon , the two great cities , soon rivalled each other in ...
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... produce of the far East in such abundance , and at , comparatively , so cheap a rate , that incredible wealth flowed into their cities , and will sufficiently explain the language of the ancients when describing Tyre and Sidon . But ...
... produce of the far East in such abundance , and at , comparatively , so cheap a rate , that incredible wealth flowed into their cities , and will sufficiently explain the language of the ancients when describing Tyre and Sidon . But ...
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... produced no timber adapted for the construction of ships ; her coasts were low and unhealthy , and she possessed few harbours proper for the purposes of navigation ; her only vessels in the early ages were those used upon the Nile ...
... produced no timber adapted for the construction of ships ; her coasts were low and unhealthy , and she possessed few harbours proper for the purposes of navigation ; her only vessels in the early ages were those used upon the Nile ...
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... produced abundantly with the slightest cultivation , and the natural disposition of the people all tended to the indulgence of idleness and dissipation , whilst their religion itself encouraged and fostered such feelings , it is not ...
... produced abundantly with the slightest cultivation , and the natural disposition of the people all tended to the indulgence of idleness and dissipation , whilst their religion itself encouraged and fostered such feelings , it is not ...
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