| Campbell Hardy - 1855 - 318 páginas
...exciting description. Mr. Thornbury has taken up that history, and the result is a work the horrible interest of which is not surpassed in any language....mankind. It is a work at once perfectly novel and deeply interesting."— Observer. " They performed deeds of heroic enterprise, daring, and endurance, which... | |
| Campbell Hardy - 1855 - 390 páginas
...exciting description. Mr. Thornbury has taken up that history, and the result is a work the horrible interest of which is not surpassed in any language....existence; it traces the foundation of our colonial empire i it adds a new page to human history; and it furnishes deep matter for speculation upon the mission... | |
| Campbell Hardy - 1855 - 354 páginas
...exciting description. Mr. Thornbury has taken up that history, and the result is a work the horrible interest of which is not surpassed in any language....existence; it traces the foundation of our colonial empire j it adds a new page to human history j and it furnishes deep matter for speculation upon the mission... | |
| Walter Thornbury - 1855 - 346 páginas
...selfrewarding labour of his student life. Mine is no book for a sect, a clique, a profession, or a trade. It brings new scenes and new creations to the novel reader,...with worn-out types of conventional existence. It supplies the historian with a page of English, French, and Spanish history that the capricious muse... | |
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