Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries: From the Time of Columbus to the Present Period ...E. Newbery, 1796 |
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الصفحة 240 - As she was fetching away the last piece, they levelled their muskets at the cubs, and shot them both dead ; and in her retreat they wounded the dam, but not mortally. It would have drawn tears of pity from any but unfeeling minds, to have marked the affectionate concern expressed by this poor beast, in the dying moments of her expiring young.
الصفحة 240 - They proved to be a she-bear and her two cubs ; but the cubs were nearly as large as the dam. They ran eagerly to the fire, and drew out from the flames part of the flesh of the sea-horse that remained unconsumed, and ate it voraciously. The crew from the ship threw...
الصفحة 240 - ... others before, tore it in pieces, and laid it down before them : and...
الصفحة 8 - Some general Considerations. Though commerce be subject to great revolutions, yet it is possible that certain physical causes, as the quality of the soil, or the climate, may fix its nature for ever. We at present carry on the trade of the Indies merely by means of the silver which we send thither. The Romans carried annually thither about fifty millions of sesterces;1 and this silver, as ours is at present, was exchanged for merchandise, which was brought to the west.
الصفحة 240 - ... faw that they refufed to eat, fhe laid her paws firft upon one, and then upon the other, and endeavoured to raife them up : all this while it was pitiful to hear her moan. When...
الصفحة 8 - Indians have their hearts adapted to their manner of living. Our luxury cannot be theirs; nor theirs our wants. Their climate demands and permits hardly anything which comes from ours.
الصفحة 240 - away the laft piece, they levelled their mulkets at the cubs, and fhot them both dead ; and in ' her retreat they wounded the dam, but not mortally. It would have drawn tears of pity from any but unfeeling minds, to have marked the affectionate concern...
الصفحة 8 - ... be theirs, nor their wants ours. Their climate hardly demands, or permits any thing which comes from ours. They go, in a great meafure, naked ; fuch cloaths as they have, the country itfelf furnifhes ; and their religion which is deeply rooted, gives them an averfion for thofe things that ferve for our nourifhment.