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The History of the Herculean Straits, Now Called the Straits of Gibraltar (Volume 2 ); Including Those Ports of Spain and Barbary That Lie Contiguous - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1771 Excerpt: ... naked, and not to be distinguished from the most ordinary sailor under his command and that he was here buried, a bank of sand offering itself very opportunely for that purpose. From the nature of the place, it must, says he, be allowed to have been doubly inhuman not to have buried him (whoever he was) and is therefore the first argument Archytas makes use of ta bespeak the lame friendly office after a like misfortune. At tu, nauta, vagæ ne parce malignus arenæ Ossibus & capiti inhumato Particulam dare Hor. Od. xxvm. lib. K Stay, traveller, and let thy generous breast Guess the fad tale, and bear my bones to rest: See where, at hand, these sports of wind and wave May find the wifhd-for, though a sandy, grave. His body, continues Mr. Borlase, was afterwards taken up and'; conveyed to Westminster-abbey, and a little pit on this iandy green still shewfi ' Pulveris exigui parva munera. Ibid; C H A P. HI. A RE CAPITULATE ON, IN PART, OF SOME OF THE FOREGOING SHEETS. Til US having led my reader from the earliest account of things that have happened. upon the coasts of the Straits, rtd their neighbourhood, as also on the waters thereof, I shall, (before I describe Gibraltar) in some measure, recapitulate what has'been said-in the foregoing sheets, from an author of no small estimation: it is Mr. Sharpe's translation from the Latin of baron Holberg's Introduction to Universal History-y which will give, in a short view, the extensive history of Spain, serving to refresh the reader's memory, and give him a lofty idea of that country: jt is by question and answer. I shall give it literally from the book, for, aster what I have already £ud, there is no occasion for further apology. He asks, "How Spain's history is to be divided?" The Sp" nish history, ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235754170
- ISBN 13 9781235754173
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages130
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