An Historical Relation of Ceylon: Together with Somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkeable Passages of My Life that Hath Hapned Since My Deliverance Out of My Capitivity |
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Page xvii
... command of the Bible which he had incorporated into his system , he was charitable , as was the way with the seafaring men of those days . It is , perhaps , unfortunate for our general impression of his veracity that he should have ...
... command of the Bible which he had incorporated into his system , he was charitable , as was the way with the seafaring men of those days . It is , perhaps , unfortunate for our general impression of his veracity that he should have ...
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... Commands now somewhat dress'd by the help of the Printer and Graver , I a second time humbly tender to you . ' Tis I confess at best too mean a Return for your great Kindness to me . Yet I hope you will not deny it xli The Epistle ...
... Commands now somewhat dress'd by the help of the Printer and Graver , I a second time humbly tender to you . ' Tis I confess at best too mean a Return for your great Kindness to me . Yet I hope you will not deny it xli The Epistle ...
Page xlii
... Twenty years stay there ; having brought home nothing else but ( who is also wholly at your Service and Command ) London 1st . of August , 1681 . ROBERT KNOX . H The Preface Ow much of the present Knowledge of THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY.
... Twenty years stay there ; having brought home nothing else but ( who is also wholly at your Service and Command ) London 1st . of August , 1681 . ROBERT KNOX . H The Preface Ow much of the present Knowledge of THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY.
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... a kind of Pound , they catch them . After they have brought the Elephant which is not yet caught together with the She , into the Kings presence , if 1681 . it likes him not , he commands to 34 A.D. HISTORICAL RELATION OF CEYLON.
... a kind of Pound , they catch them . After they have brought the Elephant which is not yet caught together with the She , into the Kings presence , if 1681 . it likes him not , he commands to 34 A.D. HISTORICAL RELATION OF CEYLON.
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... commands to let him go ; if it does , he appoints him some certain place near unto the City , where they are to drive him with the Females ; for without them it is not possible to make him stay ; and to keep him in that place until the ...
... commands to let him go ; if it does , he appoints him some certain place near unto the City , where they are to drive him with the Females ; for without them it is not possible to make him stay ; and to keep him in that place until the ...
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