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... ages might have been imagined to be the stepping stones , by which the giant
race of those days passed from their domain on the old continent to the shores of
the new ; from “ The barren plains Of Sericana , where Chineses drive With sails
...
... ages might have been imagined to be the stepping stones , by which the giant
race of those days passed from their domain on the old continent to the shores of
the new ; from “ The barren plains Of Sericana , where Chineses drive With sails
...
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We speak of this as the discovery of a new people , because , though the natives
of the island in question had occasionally been seen from ships passing by their
shores , and , though there had been some intercourse with them , yet so little ...
We speak of this as the discovery of a new people , because , though the natives
of the island in question had occasionally been seen from ships passing by their
shores , and , though there had been some intercourse with them , yet so little ...
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... containing three or four hundred miserable , half - famished savages , who
have never seen any other country , and have only had occasional intercourse
with other people , when European ships have casually passed through those
seas .
... containing three or four hundred miserable , half - famished savages , who
have never seen any other country , and have only had occasional intercourse
with other people , when European ships have casually passed through those
seas .
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This island has been described as uninhabited in works of authority ; but the
more accurate works on the navigation of those seas describe it , correctly , as
having inhabitants , who sometimes come off in their canoes to visit a passing
ship .
This island has been described as uninhabited in works of authority ; but the
more accurate works on the navigation of those seas describe it , correctly , as
having inhabitants , who sometimes come off in their canoes to visit a passing
ship .
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... first of all seek an acquaintance with the writers who in that period were most
read and most admired , and then pass to an examination of the principal authors
whose talents were called into exercise by the taste and exigencies of the times .
... first of all seek an acquaintance with the writers who in that period were most
read and most admired , and then pass to an examination of the principal authors
whose talents were called into exercise by the taste and exigencies of the times .
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| Title | American Quarterly Review, Volume 20 Volumes 298-301 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 Library of American civilization |
| Editor | Robert Walsh |
| Publisher | Carey, Lea & Carey, 1836 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2019 |
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