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... original of which was in Latin : " In the year of our Lord 1497 , John Cabot , a Venetian , and his son Sebastian , with an English fleet , set out from Bristol , and discovered that island which no man before had attempted . This ...
... original of which was in Latin : " In the year of our Lord 1497 , John Cabot , a Venetian , and his son Sebastian , with an English fleet , set out from Bristol , and discovered that island which no man before had attempted . This ...
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... original design of going to the Spice Islands , both by a scarcity of provisions , and a mutiny among his men . He sailed , however , up the river of Plate ; and about thirty leagues above the mouth he found an island , which he called ...
... original design of going to the Spice Islands , both by a scarcity of provisions , and a mutiny among his men . He sailed , however , up the river of Plate ; and about thirty leagues above the mouth he found an island , which he called ...
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... original opinion , and proved that he had formed it upon substantial grounds . In 1794 Mr. Cadell retired from business , in the full possession of his health and faculties , and with an ample fortune corresponding to the magnitude of ...
... original opinion , and proved that he had formed it upon substantial grounds . In 1794 Mr. Cadell retired from business , in the full possession of his health and faculties , and with an ample fortune corresponding to the magnitude of ...
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... original languages ; the remainder he employed in exercise , or in visiting the sick and poor . He passed much time in secret prayer , and has been frequently surprised on his knees by his servant , * when the family had retired to rest ...
... original languages ; the remainder he employed in exercise , or in visiting the sick and poor . He passed much time in secret prayer , and has been frequently surprised on his knees by his servant , * when the family had retired to rest ...
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... original nor universal . He missed both leisure and opportunity . Clusius had discovered more fresh plants than he ever was acquainted with . His herbal did not con- tain nine hundred species , a fact fully proved by the Flo- rentine ...
... original nor universal . He missed both leisure and opportunity . Clusius had discovered more fresh plants than he ever was acquainted with . His herbal did not con- tain nine hundred species , a fact fully proved by the Flo- rentine ...
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