American Quarterly Review, Volume 20Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1836 - Serial publications |
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... cause , it is said ( though we will not vouch for the fact ) that their celebrated prime minister , Boki , derived his name from an attempt to imitate the sound of the English word Boas ( or Bose ) the sailors ' abbreviation of ...
... cause , it is said ( though we will not vouch for the fact ) that their celebrated prime minister , Boki , derived his name from an attempt to imitate the sound of the English word Boas ( or Bose ) the sailors ' abbreviation of ...
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... cause of science and philanthropy , has continued unabated in him ; and it is but little more than a year since he published the new and valuable work , on the general subject of the Polynesian Languages , contained in the volume ...
... cause of science and philanthropy , has continued unabated in him ; and it is but little more than a year since he published the new and valuable work , on the general subject of the Polynesian Languages , contained in the volume ...
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... cause of science , while this illustrious man was prosecuting his enquiries , with that energy and zeal which ever animate those noble minds , that pursue knowledge for its own sake , his career was suddenly arrested by death ; an event ...
... cause of science , while this illustrious man was prosecuting his enquiries , with that energy and zeal which ever animate those noble minds , that pursue knowledge for its own sake , his career was suddenly arrested by death ; an event ...
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... cause of science . Our ships of war and our mer- chantmen at present navigate those seas by English and other foreign charts , imperfect and faulty , it is true ; and yet , as we conclude from the statements accompanying the report ...
... cause of science . Our ships of war and our mer- chantmen at present navigate those seas by English and other foreign charts , imperfect and faulty , it is true ; and yet , as we conclude from the statements accompanying the report ...
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... continue to guide us for many a league , until a storm had overspread the heavens , or distance had caused them to sink below the horizon . Casting our eyes back to the reformation , and taking 28 [ September , Biblical Commentary .
... continue to guide us for many a league , until a storm had overspread the heavens , or distance had caused them to sink below the horizon . Casting our eyes back to the reformation , and taking 28 [ September , Biblical Commentary .
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