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; J. Ridgeway, 1795 - 485 Seiten |
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... reason to doubt of the difcovery ; but as the land was never colonized , nor any advantages made of it , it may fairly be conjectured , that they reached no farther than the barren country of Labrador . In fhort , it is from a much ...
... reason to doubt of the difcovery ; but as the land was never colonized , nor any advantages made of it , it may fairly be conjectured , that they reached no farther than the barren country of Labrador . In fhort , it is from a much ...
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... 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 than the banks of the Ganges , yet fome Greek authors had ventured to defcribe ...
... 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 than the banks of the Ganges , yet fome Greek authors had ventured to defcribe ...
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... reason that Columbus entertained doubts and fears with refpect 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 ...
... reason that Columbus entertained doubts and fears with refpect 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 ...
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... reason and discourse concerning the intention and circumftances of their expedition . They made impreffion , at first , upon the ignorant and timid , and extending , by degrees , to fuch as were better informed or more refolute , the ...
... reason and discourse concerning the intention and circumftances of their expedition . They made impreffion , at first , upon the ignorant and timid , and extending , by degrees , to fuch as were better informed or more refolute , the ...
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... reason which the contemporary writers have not mentioned , that he liftened with partiality to every invective against him . It was not eafy for an unfriended stranger , unpractifed in courtly arts , to counteract the machinations of fo ...
... reason which the contemporary writers have not mentioned , that he liftened with partiality to every invective against him . It was not eafy for an unfriended stranger , unpractifed in courtly arts , to counteract the machinations of fo ...
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