Works, Volume 98Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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Page xlvi
... reading easier . ( a ) The symbol ' y ' for ' th ' was still much in use . Robertson uses both forms quite impartially , and frequently in conjunction , e.g. ' oyther ' or ' oyer ' for ' other ' . ( b ) He does not double the consonant ...
... reading easier . ( a ) The symbol ' y ' for ' th ' was still much in use . Robertson uses both forms quite impartially , and frequently in conjunction , e.g. ' oyther ' or ' oyer ' for ' other ' . ( b ) He does not double the consonant ...
Page xlviii
... reader is taken to stand behind the galley door and listen to the crew discussing these events and selecting the scapegoat for their misdeeds , who on the morrow shall run the gauntlet around the ship's decks , and obtain forgiveness ...
... reader is taken to stand behind the galley door and listen to the crew discussing these events and selecting the scapegoat for their misdeeds , who on the morrow shall run the gauntlet around the ship's decks , and obtain forgiveness ...
Page 281
... readers had enough cynicism to reject the picture and Horace Walpole wrote : ' Dr Hawkesworth is ... provoking . An old black gentlewoman of forty carries Captain Wallis across a river when he was too weak to walk , and the man ...
... readers had enough cynicism to reject the picture and Horace Walpole wrote : ' Dr Hawkesworth is ... provoking . An old black gentlewoman of forty carries Captain Wallis across a river when he was too weak to walk , and the man ...
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