The History of Newfoundland: From the Earliest Times to the Year 1860Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863 - 531 Seiten |
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... with the view of preparing ( from such memoranda chiefly ) some historical account of the colony . In answer to my application , I received a letter from Sir Alexander Bannerman , from which the following extracts are taken .
... with the view of preparing ( from such memoranda chiefly ) some historical account of the colony . In answer to my application , I received a letter from Sir Alexander Bannerman , from which the following extracts are taken .
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... receiving from him helpful sanction , to go forth in search of regions in which future genera- tions should hand down the nation's character , lan- guage , and rule . Such a reflection might well occur to the thoughtful visitor to the ...
... receiving from him helpful sanction , to go forth in search of regions in which future genera- tions should hand down the nation's character , lan- guage , and rule . Such a reflection might well occur to the thoughtful visitor to the ...
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... received a practical bias from the publication , by his half - brother , Sir Humphrey Gilbert , of a treatise concerning the discovery of a north - west passage to the East Indies ' - a question which greatly occupied the speculations ...
... received a practical bias from the publication , by his half - brother , Sir Humphrey Gilbert , of a treatise concerning the discovery of a north - west passage to the East Indies ' - a question which greatly occupied the speculations ...
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... received in payment an immense tract of country stretching indefinitely in- land , and bounded on the east by the Delaware river , and so was founded the Quaker state of Pennsylvania . The territory of the now important State of New ...
... received in payment an immense tract of country stretching indefinitely in- land , and bounded on the east by the Delaware river , and so was founded the Quaker state of Pennsylvania . The territory of the now important State of New ...
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... received bribes from the same quarter , witnessed the partial sliding under this alien power of the most ancient of the colonial possessions of the Crown . Not less than half of the inhabited coast of Newfoundland was thus taken under ...
... received bribes from the same quarter , witnessed the partial sliding under this alien power of the most ancient of the colonial possessions of the Crown . Not less than half of the inhabited coast of Newfoundland was thus taken under ...
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