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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... turned from the sheltering shore , and ploughed the waters in search of unknown lands . And navigation thus created , grew and grew , assisted by each fresh dis- covery , until it has become what we see it in our day , a great science ...
... turned from the sheltering shore , and ploughed the waters in search of unknown lands . And navigation thus created , grew and grew , assisted by each fresh dis- covery , until it has become what we see it in our day , a great science ...
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... turned towards Ægina . The little island . www GRECIAN WAR VESSEL . did not yield without a struggle , for its inhabitants had boasted themselves the rulers of the sea - their resistance , however , was vain - their courage of no avail ...
... turned towards Ægina . The little island . www GRECIAN WAR VESSEL . did not yield without a struggle , for its inhabitants had boasted themselves the rulers of the sea - their resistance , however , was vain - their courage of no avail ...
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... turned their arms against each other , and in the course of years sullied their fame , and finally ruined their country , by the cruel process of civil war . A private quarrel between the little island of Corcyra ( Corfu ) and Corinth ...
... turned their arms against each other , and in the course of years sullied their fame , and finally ruined their country , by the cruel process of civil war . A private quarrel between the little island of Corcyra ( Corfu ) and Corinth ...
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... turned their arms against the republic itself , and more than once put it in great jeopardy . The only superiority the Carthaginians possessed over the Romans lay in their navy . But , as the historian Puffendorf shrewdly re- marks ...
... turned their arms against the republic itself , and more than once put it in great jeopardy . The only superiority the Carthaginians possessed over the Romans lay in their navy . But , as the historian Puffendorf shrewdly re- marks ...
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... 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 which the superiority ...
... 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 which the superiority ...
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