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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... first be discovered are remote and uncertain , and that ambition has always found objects . nearer home . It is the diftinguishing characteristic of Your Majesty to act from more liberal motives ; and having the best fleet , and the ...
... first be discovered are remote and uncertain , and that ambition has always found objects . nearer home . It is the diftinguishing characteristic of Your Majesty to act from more liberal motives ; and having the best fleet , and the ...
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... always be retained with the warmest gratitude , by BROMLEY , KENT , ift May 1773 . YOUR MAJESTY'S Most faithful , and most obliged Subject and Servant , JOHN HAWKESWORTH . Y 1 FIRST OF THE VOLUME . GENERAL INTRODUCTION . Page i DEDICATION .
... always be retained with the warmest gratitude , by BROMLEY , KENT , ift May 1773 . YOUR MAJESTY'S Most faithful , and most obliged Subject and Servant , JOHN HAWKESWORTH . Y 1 FIRST OF THE VOLUME . GENERAL INTRODUCTION . Page i DEDICATION .
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... FIRST OF THE VOLUME . GENERAL INTRODUCTION . Page i An Explanation of the Nautical Terms not generally underflood which occur in this Work . A Defcription of the Cuts . xxiii XXXV COMMODORE BYRON'S VOYAGE . CHAP . I. The Paffage from ...
... FIRST OF THE VOLUME . GENERAL INTRODUCTION . Page i An Explanation of the Nautical Terms not generally underflood which occur in this Work . A Defcription of the Cuts . xxiii XXXV COMMODORE BYRON'S VOYAGE . CHAP . I. The Paffage from ...
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... first edition of this work , a quarto pamphlet has appeared , under the title of " A Letter from Mr. Dalrymple to Dr. Hawkesworth , occa- " fioned by some groundless and illiberal Imputations in his " Account of the late Voyages to the ...
... first edition of this work , a quarto pamphlet has appeared , under the title of " A Letter from Mr. Dalrymple to Dr. Hawkesworth , occa- " fioned by some groundless and illiberal Imputations in his " Account of the late Voyages to the ...
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... think himself at liberty to search for what he was not fure to find , if not foisted in by me , would almost preclude First Edition , p . 477 . [ A ] 2 him him from taking any further notice of Captain Cook's con- SECOND EDITION .
... think himself at liberty to search for what he was not fure to find , if not foisted in by me , would almost preclude First Edition , p . 477 . [ A ] 2 him him from taking any further notice of Captain Cook's con- SECOND EDITION .
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