An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Том 1compiler, 1799 - 510 страници |
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... respect to the printed authorities which the Editor has followed , he has not only borrowed their ideas , but , where he had not the vanity to conceive himself capable of correcting it , he has adopted their language , fo that in a long ...
... respect to the printed authorities which the Editor has followed , he has not only borrowed their ideas , but , where he had not the vanity to conceive himself capable of correcting it , he has adopted their language , fo that in a long ...
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... respect to the truth of his fyftem , he was impatient to bring it to the test of experiment , and to fet out upon a voyage of difcovery . The first ftep towards this was to fecure the patronage of fome of the confiderable powers in ...
... respect to the truth of his fyftem , he was impatient to bring it to the test of experiment , and to fet out upon a voyage of difcovery . The first ftep towards this was to fecure the patronage of fome of the confiderable powers in ...
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... na ture , they deferred paffing a final judgement with respect to it . In the mean time , they confpired to rob him of the honour and advantages C which which he expected from the fuccefs of his fcheme , DISCOVERY OF AMERICA . 9.
... na ture , they deferred paffing a final judgement with respect to it . In the mean time , they confpired to rob him of the honour and advantages C which which he expected from the fuccefs of his fcheme , DISCOVERY OF AMERICA . 9.
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... respect to the reception of his propofals in the Spanish court . Spain was , at that juncture , engaged in a dangerous war with Granada , the laft of the Moorish kingdoms in that country . The wary and sus- picious temper of Ferdinand ...
... respect to the reception of his propofals in the Spanish court . Spain was , at that juncture , engaged in a dangerous war with Granada , the laft of the Moorish kingdoms in that country . The wary and sus- picious temper of Ferdinand ...
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... respect to a subject of this kind . But true science had , hitherto , made fo little progrefs in Spain , that the pretended phi- lofophers , felected to judge in a matter of such moment , did not com- prehend the first principles upon ...
... respect to a subject of this kind . But true science had , hitherto , made fo little progrefs in Spain , that the pretended phi- lofophers , felected to judge in a matter of such moment , did not com- prehend the first principles upon ...
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