An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere: And Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour, Band 1W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1773 |
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... should still have remain- ed unknown ; that it should still have been the fubject of speculation , whether a great portion of the Southern Hemisphere is land or water ; and , even where land had been discovered , that neither A 2 1 ...
... should still have remain- ed unknown ; that it should still have been the fubject of speculation , whether a great portion of the Southern Hemisphere is land or water ; and , even where land had been discovered , that neither A 2 1 ...
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... should have been ascertained . But the cause has probably been , that fovereign Princes have feldom any other motive for attempting the discovery of new countries than to conquer them , that the ad- vantages of conquering countries ...
... should have been ascertained . But the cause has probably been , that fovereign Princes have feldom any other motive for attempting the discovery of new countries than to conquer them , that the ad- vantages of conquering countries ...
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... should suggest , ” I wondered at first at this Gentleman's hafte to vent his resentment against me , before he had informed himself whether I was in fault , which not only in candour but in juftice he should certainly have done ...
... should suggest , ” I wondered at first at this Gentleman's hafte to vent his resentment against me , before he had informed himself whether I was in fault , which not only in candour but in juftice he should certainly have done ...
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... should not have thought my- felf at liberty to take a part in it , in a work in which I was little more than an amanuenfis for others . And now , to ufe Mr. Dalrymple's own words , " having I " flatter myself shewn that his illiberal ...
... should not have thought my- felf at liberty to take a part in it , in a work in which I was little more than an amanuenfis for others . And now , to ufe Mr. Dalrymple's own words , " having I " flatter myself shewn that his illiberal ...
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... should be written in the firft or third person : it was rea- dily acknowledged on all hands , that a narrative in the first perfon would , by bringing the Adventurer and the Reader nearer together , without the intervention of a ...
... should be written in the firft or third person : it was rea- dily acknowledged on all hands , that a narrative in the first perfon would , by bringing the Adventurer and the Reader nearer together , without the intervention of a ...
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