John Ledyard's Journey Through Russia and Siberia, 1787-1788, Volume 2University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1964 - 698 pages |
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Page 251
... reason . It is the uncertain boundary of a Queen on the one hand , whose rapacity of Empire is boundless , & on the other by a People who I strongly suspect of all the Vices of Indolence & Vanity . It is besides almost solely inhabited ...
... reason . It is the uncertain boundary of a Queen on the one hand , whose rapacity of Empire is boundless , & on the other by a People who I strongly suspect of all the Vices of Indolence & Vanity . It is besides almost solely inhabited ...
Page 274
... reason for it which is that Ice formed in Rivers floating in that Ocean must necessarily bring along with them Vegetable Substances of some kind . If his /p.131/ Information would have carried him so far as to say that at the Mouths of ...
... reason for it which is that Ice formed in Rivers floating in that Ocean must necessarily bring along with them Vegetable Substances of some kind . If his /p.131/ Information would have carried him so far as to say that at the Mouths of ...
Page 287
... reason at the feet of God- descended as far below & lost themselves in a contrariety of mere puerile Riddles . The present cultivated State of the human Mind in Europe is a proof that this reversed Situation of the Understanding at the ...
... reason at the feet of God- descended as far below & lost themselves in a contrariety of mere puerile Riddles . The present cultivated State of the human Mind in Europe is a proof that this reversed Situation of the Understanding at the ...
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