Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 186W. Blackwood, 1909 - England |
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... taken the place of the geographical ; and this involves a spacial exten- sion . Largeness in itself is nothing : largeness misused is a curse : but largeness seriously accepted is a condition of great- ness . An Empire muddled is far ...
... taken the place of the geographical ; and this involves a spacial exten- sion . Largeness in itself is nothing : largeness misused is a curse : but largeness seriously accepted is a condition of great- ness . An Empire muddled is far ...
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... taken to the sea from of old . There were the pirates whom Pompey suppressed , and there was his Own son Sextus . They had had predecessors , and have not lacked followers . But it is not of them we think when we speak of the pirate ...
... taken to the sea from of old . There were the pirates whom Pompey suppressed , and there was his Own son Sextus . They had had predecessors , and have not lacked followers . But it is not of them we think when we speak of the pirate ...
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... taken as a matter of course , but ready money and gold dust were preferred . The pirates were men of principle too . They argued that there was no sin in robbing the heathen . Darby Mullens , who stood in the dock with Kidd , told the ...
... taken as a matter of course , but ready money and gold dust were preferred . The pirates were men of principle too . They argued that there was no sin in robbing the heathen . Darby Mullens , who stood in the dock with Kidd , told the ...
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... taken , and the prisoners for- gains . Obscurity and hunger warded rapidly to Execution are for the rest , the common Dock . The seventeenth cen- fate of the adventurer who tury had apparently not made has missed his great coup , its ...
... taken , and the prisoners for- gains . Obscurity and hunger warded rapidly to Execution are for the rest , the common Dock . The seventeenth cen- fate of the adventurer who tury had apparently not made has missed his great coup , its ...
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... taken to pro- tect the Red Sea trade . The war with France kept the hands of the Admiralty full for some years . The first de- finite attempt made to abate piracy in the East was the often described , but still un- intelligible , plan ...
... taken to pro- tect the Red Sea trade . The war with France kept the hands of the Admiralty full for some years . The first de- finite attempt made to abate piracy in the East was the often described , but still un- intelligible , plan ...
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