Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... Land . This voyage was not of renown fufficient to pro- cure a general reception to the new name , for when the Dutch , who had now become strong enough not only to defend themselves , but to attack their mafters , fent ( 1598 ) ...
... Land . This voyage was not of renown fufficient to pro- cure a general reception to the new name , for when the Dutch , who had now become strong enough not only to defend themselves , but to attack their mafters , fent ( 1598 ) ...
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... land . The Spaniards easily discovering the pur- pofe of his motion , let him know , that if he weighed his anchor , they would fire upon his fhip ; but pay- ing no regard to these menaces , he advanced towards the fhore . The Spanish ...
... land . The Spaniards easily discovering the pur- pofe of his motion , let him know , that if he weighed his anchor , they would fire upon his fhip ; but pay- ing no regard to these menaces , he advanced towards the fhore . The Spanish ...
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... land's Illand by Buccarelli , the governor of Buenos Ayres , without any particular orders from the king of Spain . But being afked , whether in his mafter's name he difavowed Buccarelli's violence , he refused to answer without ...
... land's Illand by Buccarelli , the governor of Buenos Ayres , without any particular orders from the king of Spain . But being afked , whether in his mafter's name he difavowed Buccarelli's violence , he refused to answer without ...
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... land's Inlands . This conceffion was accepted by the Earl of Rochford , who declared on the part of his master , that the prince of Masseran being authorized by his catholick majefty , to offer in his majesty's name , to the king of ...
... land's Inlands . This conceffion was accepted by the Earl of Rochford , who declared on the part of his master , that the prince of Masseran being authorized by his catholick majefty , to offer in his majesty's name , to the king of ...
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... cannons which by cannons may be battered , but by the ftorms of the deep and the vapours of the land , by the flames of calenture and blafts of peftilence . In the reign of Elizabeth , the favourite period of In FALKLAND's ISLANDS . 63.
... cannons which by cannons may be battered , but by the ftorms of the deep and the vapours of the land , by the flames of calenture and blafts of peftilence . In the reign of Elizabeth , the favourite period of In FALKLAND's ISLANDS . 63.
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