The History of North and South America, from Its Discovery to the Death of General Washington, Volumes 1-2Benjamin Warner, and sold at his stores, Richmond, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina, 1819 - America |
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... attempt , if it even fall short of complete execution , has a claim to a con- siderable share of indulgence . This is more especially the case , when the writer has to follow a historian of such great and just celebrity as DR ...
... attempt , if it even fall short of complete execution , has a claim to a con- siderable share of indulgence . This is more especially the case , when the writer has to follow a historian of such great and just celebrity as DR ...
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... attempts to deliver West Point to the British , 105 Major Andre taken as a spy , 106 Henry Laurens , Esq . taken by the British , on his passage to Holland , 108 Battle of Guilford Court House , Engagement between the British and French ...
... attempts to deliver West Point to the British , 105 Major Andre taken as a spy , 106 Henry Laurens , Esq . taken by the British , on his passage to Holland , 108 Battle of Guilford Court House , Engagement between the British and French ...
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... attempt to discover new countries . His subjects were the most experienced navigators in Europe , and the least apt to be inti- midated either by the novelty or boldness of any maritime expedition . In Portugal the skill of Columbus in ...
... attempt to discover new countries . His subjects were the most experienced navigators in Europe , and the least apt to be inti- midated either by the novelty or boldness of any maritime expedition . In Portugal the skill of Columbus in ...
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... attempt the proposed discovery , by following exactly the course which Columbus seemed to point out . The king , forgetting , on this occasion , the sentiments becoming a monarch , meanly adopted this perfidious counsel . But the pilot ...
... attempt the proposed discovery , by following exactly the course which Columbus seemed to point out . The king , forgetting , on this occasion , the sentiments becoming a monarch , meanly adopted this perfidious counsel . But the pilot ...
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... attempt to open a communication between the two opposite hemispheres which nature had forever disjoined . Some contended that it was presumptuous in any person to sup- pose that he alone possessed knowledge superior to all the rest of ...
... attempt to open a communication between the two opposite hemispheres which nature had forever disjoined . Some contended that it was presumptuous in any person to sup- pose that he alone possessed knowledge superior to all the rest of ...
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