The Quarterly Review, Volume 4William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1810 - English literature |
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Page 459
... Brazil to a governor appointed by the crown . While the Portuguese were thus employed in exploring and set- tling the coasts and creeks of Brazil , they had little opportunity , and apparently few inducements , to penetrate far into the ...
... Brazil to a governor appointed by the crown . While the Portuguese were thus employed in exploring and set- tling the coasts and creeks of Brazil , they had little opportunity , and apparently few inducements , to penetrate far into the ...
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... Brazil were now drawing on . In 1578 Sebastian fell , and a few years more saw the first a province of Spain , and the second * exposed to all the enemies of that overgrown power . The English buccaneers under Lancaster , laid waste ...
... Brazil were now drawing on . In 1578 Sebastian fell , and a few years more saw the first a province of Spain , and the second * exposed to all the enemies of that overgrown power . The English buccaneers under Lancaster , laid waste ...
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... Brazil , rendered in a great measure vain the enlightened policy of their European government . But their greatest tower of strength was their possessing a general like the count of Nassau , one of those extraordinary characters who ...
... Brazil , rendered in a great measure vain the enlightened policy of their European government . But their greatest tower of strength was their possessing a general like the count of Nassau , one of those extraordinary characters who ...
Contents
Alicia Tindal Palmer | 61 |
Reasons for declining to become a Subscriber to | 68 |
A Reply to the Calumnies of the Edinburgh Review | 177 |
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