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... Discovery . - Arrives in Safety at the Azores . Reaches Palos . Received with Enthusiasm , -Pro- ceeds to Court . - Honours conferred on him by Ferdinand . - - - - 381 THE HISTORY OF MARITIME AND INLAND DISCOVERY . BOOK I. xii CONTENTS .
... Discovery . - Arrives in Safety at the Azores . Reaches Palos . Received with Enthusiasm , -Pro- ceeds to Court . - Honours conferred on him by Ferdinand . - - - - 381 THE HISTORY OF MARITIME AND INLAND DISCOVERY . BOOK I. xii CONTENTS .
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... honour- able , profession in those days . Naval warfare was by no means unknown to the Greeks , as appears by Homer's making mention of boarding pikes . Yet their vessels , such at least as were built by Ulysses at the island of Circe ...
... honour- able , profession in those days . Naval warfare was by no means unknown to the Greeks , as appears by Homer's making mention of boarding pikes . Yet their vessels , such at least as were built by Ulysses at the island of Circe ...
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... honour of infusing the love of knowledge into the future conqueror of Asia . The spirit of the royal pupil corresponded with the intel- lectual eminence of the great teacher ; and the expedition of Alexander produced a greater ...
... honour of infusing the love of knowledge into the future conqueror of Asia . The spirit of the royal pupil corresponded with the intel- lectual eminence of the great teacher ; and the expedition of Alexander produced a greater ...
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... honoured by his contemporaries with the title of Surveyor of the Earth , and was held in the highest estimation by all succeeding geographers . His knowledge of the Nile reached as far as that of Herodotus , and was much more accurate ...
... honoured by his contemporaries with the title of Surveyor of the Earth , and was held in the highest estimation by all succeeding geographers . His knowledge of the Nile reached as far as that of Herodotus , and was much more accurate ...
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... honour of whom they carried on their per- sons the image of a boar ; a symbol so much respected as to insure the safety of its wearer , even among hostile tribes . In this account it appears that Freya , the Scan- dinavian Venus , to ...
... honour of whom they carried on their per- sons the image of a boar ; a symbol so much respected as to insure the safety of its wearer , even among hostile tribes . In this account it appears that Freya , the Scan- dinavian Venus , to ...
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The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1 William Desborough Cooley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1833 |
The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1 William Desborough Cooley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1830 |
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