The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... adventure , for Richard Eden , who was a personal acquaintance of Sebastian Cabot , had already published a translation of Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia in 1553 under the title of A Treatise of the new India with other new found ...
... adventure , for Richard Eden , who was a personal acquaintance of Sebastian Cabot , had already published a translation of Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia in 1553 under the title of A Treatise of the new India with other new found ...
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... ADVENTURE WITH the dawn of the sixteenth century was born anew the spirit of adventure , the child of fruitful movements in the spheres both of thought and action . First , the Renaissance , opening up the learning of Ancient Greece ...
... ADVENTURE WITH the dawn of the sixteenth century was born anew the spirit of adventure , the child of fruitful movements in the spheres both of thought and action . First , the Renaissance , opening up the learning of Ancient Greece ...
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... adventure was the chief compensation for the risks of the position , but adventures were not a daily part of the life of the chief agent , and were far from being the lot of those lower in the service . The Company had been founded ...
... adventure was the chief compensation for the risks of the position , but adventures were not a daily part of the life of the chief agent , and were far from being the lot of those lower in the service . The Company had been founded ...
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