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... present attempt is , that it is written in a good spirit ; and that her industry in collecting materials is fa- vourably evinced in an appendix , which contains several letters of importance never before published . Mr Tytler's work was ...
... present attempt is , that it is written in a good spirit ; and that her industry in collecting materials is fa- vourably evinced in an appendix , which contains several letters of importance never before published . Mr Tytler's work was ...
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... present biographers of Raleigh seem , as we shall presently see , to have been wholly ignorant . Though the extravagance of its conclusions respecting the importance of Virginia , and the poetical dress of its state- ments , may now ...
... present biographers of Raleigh seem , as we shall presently see , to have been wholly ignorant . Though the extravagance of its conclusions respecting the importance of Virginia , and the poetical dress of its state- ments , may now ...
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... present day , and in a work like this , be wholly out of place . The attempt to enter the Orinocco , which empties itself into the ocean , at a great distance from its main stream , by several rivers , the navigation of which was then ...
... present day , and in a work like this , be wholly out of place . The attempt to enter the Orinocco , which empties itself into the ocean , at a great distance from its main stream , by several rivers , the navigation of which was then ...
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... present some scenes of considerable in- terest ; particularly those where he is seen acting the part of mediator between Essex and Cecil , and where the three worthies meet to dine in private , and to ratify that treaty of amity which ...
... present some scenes of considerable in- terest ; particularly those where he is seen acting the part of mediator between Essex and Cecil , and where the three worthies meet to dine in private , and to ratify that treaty of amity which ...
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... present in that capacity at the execution of Blount a fact which Hume appears to have over- looked . It was when returning in his boat from Essex's execu- tion in the Tower , that the thought first flashed into his mind , that the power ...
... present in that capacity at the execution of Blount a fact which Hume appears to have over- looked . It was when returning in his boat from Essex's execu- tion in the Tower , that the thought first flashed into his mind , that the power ...
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