Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, Količina 5E. Newbery, 1796 |
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Stran 272 - They proved to be a she bear, and her two cubs ; but the cubs were nearly as large as the dam. They ran eagerly to the fire, and drew out from the flames part of the flesh of the sea-horse, that remained unconsumed, and ate it voraciously.
Stran 20 - It is nature itself that produces this effect. The Indians have their arts adapted to their manner of living. Our luxury cannot be theirs ; nor theirs our wants. Their climate neither demands, nor permits, hardly any thing which comes from ours. They go in a great...
Stran 275 - ... of the greatest danger, cannot be sufficiently admired or applauded. Neither swayed by passion, nor disconcerted by the sudden embarrassments that often intervened, his conduct was always calm, and his orders resolute. He never was heard, during the whole voyage on the most pressing emergencies, to enforce his commands with an oath, or to call a sailor by any other than his usual name; and so sensible were they of his manly behaviour, that, when the ship was paid...
Stran 20 - Some general Considerations. Though commerce be subject to great revolutions, yet it is possible that certain physical causes, as the quality of the soil, or the climate, may fix its nature for ever. We at present carry on the trade of the Indies merely by means of the silver which we send thither. The Romans carried annually thither about fifty millions of sesterces;1 and this silver, as ours is at present, was exchanged for merchandise, which was brought to the west.
Stran 240 - I asked him if they found no land or islands about the pole? He told me — No, there was a free and open sea. I asked him if him if they did not meet with a great deal of ice? He told me, No, they saw no ice: I asked him what weather they had there?
Stran 273 - ... back and moaned; and that not availing her to entice them away, fhe returned, and fmelling round them, began to lick their wounds. She went off a fecond time, as before ; and having crawled a few paces^ looked again behind her, and for fome time ftood moaning.
Stran 272 - She went off a second time as before ; and having crawled a few paces, looked again behind her, and for some time stood moaning. But still her cubs not rising to follow her, she returned to them again, and with signs of inexpressible fondness went round one, and round the other, pawing them and moaning.
Stran 272 - ... faw that they refufed to eat, fhe laid her paws firft upon one, and then upon the other, and endeavoured to raife them up : all this while it was pitiful to hear her moan. When...
Stran 9 - Solomon dividing the child, there standing a figure with a drawn sword, holding in one hand an infant with the head downwards, which it appears in act to cleave through the middle. The outlet of the other, on the left hand, is into an area of about twenty feet in length, and twelve in breadth ; at the upper end of which, as you turn to the right...
Stran 19 - Indies, that all may live independent, and not under a fubjection that bears hard upon their honour and commerce. THE Eaft Indies is a bottomlefs pit for bullion, which can never circulate back to Europe ; and when bullion fails, that trade muft ceafe. That this is the prefent fituation of all the kingdoms of Europe, with refpect to the trade which they carry on with the Eaft Indies, is alfo...