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... Europe from the Dutch , who have preserved their trade with Japan on very disagreeable and humiliating conditions . The people of this country train their youth from their earliest years to write and read , by an easy and expeditious ...
... Europe from the Dutch , who have preserved their trade with Japan on very disagreeable and humiliating conditions . The people of this country train their youth from their earliest years to write and read , by an easy and expeditious ...
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... Europe . In this trade , the Persian and Arabian gulfs opened an easy passage ; and certain traditions in India warrant the belief , that from time immemorial there has been an intercourse between Egypt and Hin- dostan . Alexandria held ...
... Europe . In this trade , the Persian and Arabian gulfs opened an easy passage ; and certain traditions in India warrant the belief , that from time immemorial there has been an intercourse between Egypt and Hin- dostan . Alexandria held ...
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... Europe of its riches . The notices which are here referred to must be considered rather as transient views of the ancient state of Hindostan , with some general account of its manners and customs , than as a history . Indeed , there is ...
... Europe of its riches . The notices which are here referred to must be considered rather as transient views of the ancient state of Hindostan , with some general account of its manners and customs , than as a history . Indeed , there is ...
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... EUROPEAN NATIONS . CHAP . IV . Intercourse with India , from the Conquest of Egypt by the Mohammedans , to the Discovery of the Passage by the Cape of Good Hope , and the Establishment of the Portuguese Do- minion in the East . IT T is ...
... EUROPEAN NATIONS . CHAP . IV . Intercourse with India , from the Conquest of Egypt by the Mohammedans , to the Discovery of the Passage by the Cape of Good Hope , and the Establishment of the Portuguese Do- minion in the East . IT T is ...
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... Europe found themselves nearly excluded from all intercourse with that part of the globe . To them the famous port of Alexandria was shut ; and the new lords of the Persian Gulf , satisfied with supplying the demand of Indian commodi ...
... Europe found themselves nearly excluded from all intercourse with that part of the globe . To them the famous port of Alexandria was shut ; and the new lords of the Persian Gulf , satisfied with supplying the demand of Indian commodi ...
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Page 96 - Elizabeth under the name of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies.
Page 144 - Princes were dressed in long white muslin gowns, and red turbans. They had several rows of large pearls round their necks, from which was suspended an ornament consisting of a ruby and an emerald of considerable size, surrounded by large brilliants; and in their turbans, each had a sprig of rich pearls. Bred up from their infancy with infinite care, and instructed in their manners to imitate the reserve and politeness of age, it astonished all present to see the correctness and propriety of their...
Page 151 - At one o'clock the troops moved from the trenches, crossed the rocky bed of the Cavery under an extremely heavy fire, passed the glacis and ditch, and ascended the breaches in the fausse braye and rampart of the fort, surmounting in the most gallant manner every obstacle which the difficulty of the passage and the resistance of the enemy presented to oppose their progress.
Page 49 - ... any other country in Europe. The revenues of the republic, as well as the wealth amassed by individuals, exceeded whatever was elsewhere known. In the magnificence of their houses...
Page 39 - TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE PASSAGE BY THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PORTUGUESE DOMINION IN THE EAST.