The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... English rule on grounds based on Roman - Dutch authority . Among particular contracts , the law of sale exhibits certain peculiarities , which arise mainly from two sources . The one is the Civil Law rule as to the passing of ownership ...
... English rule on grounds based on Roman - Dutch authority . Among particular contracts , the law of sale exhibits certain peculiarities , which arise mainly from two sources . The one is the Civil Law rule as to the passing of ownership ...
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... English and Dutch . With this official recognition of Afrikaans the claims of its pro- tagonists have been amply vindicated , and the translation of the Bible into Afrikaans ( 1933 ) and the compilation of an authoritative dictionary of ...
... English and Dutch . With this official recognition of Afrikaans the claims of its pro- tagonists have been amply vindicated , and the translation of the Bible into Afrikaans ( 1933 ) and the compilation of an authoritative dictionary of ...
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... English prose is not all fiction , and since 1880 there have been English writers in South Africa whose work , critically considered , is in many respects superior to that of this pioneering authoress . Monsignor Kolbe's prose , for ...
... English prose is not all fiction , and since 1880 there have been English writers in South Africa whose work , critically considered , is in many respects superior to that of this pioneering authoress . Monsignor Kolbe's prose , for ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
South African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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