The Life of General, the Right Honourable Sir David Baird, Bart. ...Baird visited the Cape in 1779 and 1797 and was in command of the expedition which captured it in 1806. |
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Pàgina 11 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Pàgina 341 - I have the honour to be, Sir, " With great respect, "Your most obed. and very humble servant, " BYRON.
Pàgina 3 - SACRED HISTORY OF THE WORLD, Attempted to be Philosophically considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son. By SHARON TURNER, FSA and RASL New Edition, edited by the Rev.
Pàgina 14 - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Pàgina 7 - Murray (Hugh). Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in North America; including the United States, Canada, the Shores of the Polar Sea, and the Voyages in Search of a North-west Passage; with Observations on Emigration.
Pàgina 3 - Lindley's Synopsis of the British Flora arranged according to the Natural Orders; containing Vasculares or Flowering Plants.
Pàgina 13 - Numbers are already published. Each Size to class with the Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain. The following are complete, and may be had separate, viz.
Pàgina 166 - .In this Sircar there is a mercantile tribe who employ themselves in trading by sea and land. Their agents purchased a. two-masted vessel, and having loaded her with rice, departed with a view to traffic. It happened that she went to...
Pàgina 166 - In this Sircar (the gift of God) there is a mercantile tribe, who employ themselves in trading by sea and land. Their agents purchased a two-masted vessel, and having loaded her with rice, departed with a view to traffic. It happened that she went to the Mauritius, from whence forty persons, French and of a dark colour, of whom ten or twelve were artificers, and the rest servants, paying the hire of the ship, came here in search of employment. Such as chose to take service were entertained, and the...
Pàgina 5 - Encyclopaedia of Plants : Comprising the Specific Character, Description, Culture, History, Application in the Arts, and every other desirable Particular respecting all the Plants found in Great Britain.