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I have laboured them with diligence, I hope with success; such at least as can be
expected in a task, which no man, however learned or sagacious, has yet been
able to perform. Some words there are which I cannot explain, because I do not ...
I have laboured them with diligence, I hope with success; such at least as can be
expected in a task, which no man, however learned or sagacious, has yet been
able to perform. Some words there are which I cannot explain, because I do not ...
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... recesses of northern learning which I should enter and ransack, the treasures
with which I expected every search into those neglected mines to reward my
labour, and the triumph with which I should display my acquisitions to mankind.
... recesses of northern learning which I should enter and ransack, the treasures
with which I expected every search into those neglected mines to reward my
labour, and the triumph with which I should display my acquisitions to mankind.
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... where they were kindly treated by the inhabitants, who took them into their
service against the people of the isle of Palm a, with whom they were at war ; but
the Portuguese at their return to Gomera, not being made so rich as they
expected, ...
... where they were kindly treated by the inhabitants, who took them into their
service against the people of the isle of Palm a, with whom they were at war ; but
the Portuguese at their return to Gomera, not being made so rich as they
expected, ...
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The reasons of this neglect it is useless to enquire, and perhaps impossible to
discover ; it might be justly expected that this kind of writing would have been the
favourite topick of criticism, and that self- love might have produced some regard
...
The reasons of this neglect it is useless to enquire, and perhaps impossible to
discover ; it might be justly expected that this kind of writing would have been the
favourite topick of criticism, and that self- love might have produced some regard
...
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Commerce, however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one
of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother ; she chooses
her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode, when her ...
Commerce, however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one
of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother ; she chooses
her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode, when her ...
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