American Quarterly Review, Volume 20Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1836 - Serial publications |
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... languages ; and we have now before us the third edition of the English original . This publication immediately brought the author into notice , and he was soon appointed chief secretary to the Board of Admiralty in England . In 1807 ...
... languages ; and we have now before us the third edition of the English original . This publication immediately brought the author into notice , and he was soon appointed chief secretary to the Board of Admiralty in England . In 1807 ...
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... language which might mislead the reader if not un- derstood with some qualifications - that " the tides in all these harbours ( of Otaheite ) are very irregular . " These irregulari- 1 Polynesian Researches , by the Rev. W. Ellis , vol ...
... language which might mislead the reader if not un- derstood with some qualifications - that " the tides in all these harbours ( of Otaheite ) are very irregular . " These irregulari- 1 Polynesian Researches , by the Rev. W. Ellis , vol ...
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... language of Lieutenant Malden is , that " the tide was observed to rise about four feet , and to be high water at sunset and low water at daylight , being influenced by the sea and land breezes . This regularity would probably not take ...
... language of Lieutenant Malden is , that " the tide was observed to rise about four feet , and to be high water at sunset and low water at daylight , being influenced by the sea and land breezes . This regularity would probably not take ...
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... languages ; the only wit- nesses ( to use the homely but emphatic expression of Horne Tooke ) , the only witnesses " that cannot lie . " Our readers , however , need not be apprehensive that we shall fatigue them , by an examination of ...
... languages ; the only wit- nesses ( to use the homely but emphatic expression of Horne Tooke ) , the only witnesses " that cannot lie . " Our readers , however , need not be apprehensive that we shall fatigue them , by an examination of ...
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... languages . Strong resemblances in the former may exist between nations who have had no intercourse with each other . But when we find two different nations , even if on opposite parts of the globe , speaking the same lan- guage , or ...
... languages . Strong resemblances in the former may exist between nations who have had no intercourse with each other . But when we find two different nations , even if on opposite parts of the globe , speaking the same lan- guage , or ...
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