An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Band 1Editor, 1795 |
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... COLUMBUS , by an uncommon exertion of genius , formed a defign no less astonishing to the age in which he lived , than beneficial to pofterity . Among the foreigners whom the fame of the difcoveries made by the Portuguese had allured ...
... COLUMBUS , by an uncommon exertion of genius , formed a defign no less astonishing to the age in which he lived , than beneficial to pofterity . Among the foreigners whom the fame of the difcoveries made by the Portuguese had allured ...
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... Columbus difcovered , in his early youth , the peculiar character and talents which mark out a man for that profeffion . His parents , instead of thwarting this original propenfity of his mind , feem to have encouraged and confirmed it ...
... Columbus difcovered , in his early youth , the peculiar character and talents which mark out a man for that profeffion . His parents , instead of thwarting this original propenfity of his mind , feem to have encouraged and confirmed it ...
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... Columbus liftened with a favourable ear to the advice of his friends , and having gained the efteem of a Portu- guese lady , whom he married , fixed his refidence in Lisbon . This alli- ance , instead of detaching him from a fea ...
... Columbus liftened with a favourable ear to the advice of his friends , and having gained the efteem of a Portu- guese lady , whom he married , fixed his refidence in Lisbon . This alli- ance , instead of detaching him from a fea ...
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... Columbus to confider whether a fhorter and more direct paffage to the Eaft Indies might not be found out . After revolving long and ferioufly every circumftance fuggefted by his fuperior knowledge in the theory as well as practice of ...
... Columbus to confider whether a fhorter and more direct paffage to the Eaft Indies might not be found out . After revolving long and ferioufly every circumftance fuggefted by his fuperior knowledge in the theory as well as practice of ...
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... Columbus to expect the discovery of new countries in the Western Ocean , other reasons induced him to be- lieve that these must be connected with the continent of India . Though the ancients had hardly ever penetrated into India farther ...
... Columbus to expect the discovery of new countries in the Western Ocean , other reasons induced him to be- lieve that these must be connected with the continent of India . Though the ancients had hardly ever penetrated into India farther ...
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