American Quarterly Review, Issues 39-40Carey, Lea & Carey, 1836 - Serial publications |
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... 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 and wind their cany wagons light " — to that new world , where " Columbus found the American ...
... 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 and wind their cany wagons light " — to that new world , where " Columbus found the American ...
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... passing by their shores , and , though there had been some intercourse with them , yet so little known was the island itself , that in our popular books of geography it was generally described as uninhabited ; and no particular or ...
... passing by their shores , and , though there had been some intercourse with them , yet so little known was the island itself , that in our popular books of geography it was generally described as uninhabited ; and no particular or ...
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... passed through those seas . It will be found on the charts in about 3 ° north latitude , and 131 ° east longitude ; but those readers , who may not happen to have access to good marine charts , will have a sufficiently correct idea of ...
... passed through those seas . It will be found on the charts in about 3 ° north latitude , and 131 ° east longitude ; but those readers , who may not happen to have access to good marine charts , will have a sufficiently correct idea of ...
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... passed away . The present fondness for the study of nature , is attended with an equal fondness for the study of revelation . The natural philosopher cultivates an ac- quaintance with the sacred records , and the divine with the wonders ...
... passed away . The present fondness for the study of nature , is attended with an equal fondness for the study of revelation . The natural philosopher cultivates an ac- quaintance with the sacred records , and the divine with the wonders ...
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... passing strange , that human ingenuity did not reach it before the nineteenth century ! Another requisite in a commentator on scripture , is that he be a man of deep historical research . He needs to have un- rolled the records , not ...
... passing strange , that human ingenuity did not reach it before the nineteenth century ! Another requisite in a commentator on scripture , is that he be a man of deep historical research . He needs to have un- rolled the records , not ...
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