The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 71A. Constable, 1840 |
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... British Admirals , ' contributed to an extensive and useful encyclopædical miscellany ; but it is compiled upon a scale of sufficient extent for separate publication . That it would have been a far more perfect production , had it been ...
... British Admirals , ' contributed to an extensive and useful encyclopædical miscellany ; but it is compiled upon a scale of sufficient extent for separate publication . That it would have been a far more perfect production , had it been ...
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... British Navy before the time of the French Revolution . The history itself opens with the declaration of war in 1793 , and closes with the general peace of 1815. Every year between these two periods occupies a separate division of the ...
... British Navy before the time of the French Revolution . The history itself opens with the declaration of war in 1793 , and closes with the general peace of 1815. Every year between these two periods occupies a separate division of the ...
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... British and American naval writers . With a candour almost as uncom- mon as his accuracy , he never fails to notice any variation of consequence in the statements of the hostile party ; and either to refute it by argument , or , fairly ...
... British and American naval writers . With a candour almost as uncom- mon as his accuracy , he never fails to notice any variation of consequence in the statements of the hostile party ; and either to refute it by argument , or , fairly ...
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... British frigate of forty - six guns , without , as it ap- ' pears , making any resistance , ' - certainly without provoking any comment from Mr James . At p . 95 , vol . i . , we find the British twenty - four gun - ship Hyæna ...
... British frigate of forty - six guns , without , as it ap- ' pears , making any resistance , ' - certainly without provoking any comment from Mr James . At p . 95 , vol . i . , we find the British twenty - four gun - ship Hyæna ...
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... British naval histories , will easily recall instances of the exagge- rated eulogy which has been so unsparingly bestowed on every trifling success . With singular consistency , the same writers who constantly declare British sailors to ...
... British naval histories , will easily recall instances of the exagge- rated eulogy which has been so unsparingly bestowed on every trifling success . With singular consistency , the same writers who constantly declare British sailors to ...
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