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An interesting narrative of the travels of James Bruce, Esq; ...

An interesting narrative of the travels of James Bruce, Esq; ...

James BRUCE (the Traveller.)

James BRUCE (the Traveller.) P R E F A c E. 4 A v prepared them to receive and examine his narrative with general eagerness, whenever he should bring it forward. " . - A 3 si To empire, that the public should not have yet received the very ...
An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. ...

An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. ...

James BRUCE (the Traveller.)

James BRUCE (the Traveller.) aC'cer, and qucstioncd his vcracity, he has, at length, 'presented the detail of his travels to the world. They are sufficiently interesting to jnstify the eager anxicty with which they were expected', and are marked ...
Travels ... into Abyssinia, etc

Travels ... into Abyssinia, etc

James BRUCE (the Traveller.)

James BRUCE (the Traveller.) boch, which is a large collection of huts of these people, and has the appearance of a town. The governor, a venerable old man of about seventy, who was so feeble that he could scarcely walk, received them ...
Travels Between the Years 1768 and 1773: Through Part of ...

Travels Between the Years 1768 and 1773: Through Part of ...

James Bruce

... in Abyssinia, and a Circumstantial Account of the Manners, Customs, Government, Religion, History, &c. of that Country, Being the Substance of the Original Work James Bruce ... This whole composition is worthy the traveller's attention.
A Complimentary Epistle to James Bruce, Esq., the Abyssinian ...

A Complimentary Epistle to James Bruce, Esq., the Abyssinian ...

Peter Pindar

Peter Pindar, James BRUCE (the Traveller.) Here of the genealogy a tree, Branching from Solo'mon's wise trunk to thee: There, with a valour nought could dare withstand, BRUCE fighting an hyaena hand to hand ; 'Which dread hyaena ( what ...
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years ...

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years ...

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... a tenacious memory, and an excellent judgment, laid the foundation of these attainments, so necessary to the traveller and the scholar. ... These particulars of the journey through Portugal and Spain w RITINGS OF JAMES BRUCE, ESQ.
Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the ...

Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the ...

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JAMES BRUCE, were prompted by the unfriendly and narrow-minded conduct of the Chinese; and our late collision with the ... and the undisguised vanity of the traveller, led to a disbelief of his statements, and numerous lampoons and satires , ...
Account of the Life and Writings of James Bruce ...: Author ...

Account of the Life and Writings of James Bruce ...: Author ...

Alexander Murray

Mr D. Bruce to Gov. Glen, November 14, 1747. + This book, “Elementa Juris Civilis, Heineccii,” has the name “James Bruce, 1749,” along with several Italian words and verses, evidently written at that time. Two of the verses are “Bella ingrata io ...
An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of ...

An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of ...

Robert Dankoff

A selection of writing by the most unknown great traveller.
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years ...

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years ...

James Bruce

In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773 James Bruce. assolutamente per ci6 si prova che non le sono che di name e niente di fatto ***. [This paper is the scroll of a letter from L. Balugani, Mr Bruce's assistant, to some person of rank  ...
Profiles in Cardiology

Profiles in Cardiology

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John Willis Hurst, Charles Richard Conti, Bruce Fye ... 58 W Bruce Fye 60 W Bruce Fye 62 John H. Stone 64 John D. Canlwell 68 W Bruce Fye 71 W Bruce Fye 74 W Bruce Fye 76 W. Bruce Fye 78 W Bruce Fye 79 W Bruce Fye 81 W Bruce Fye ...
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years ...

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years ...

James Bruce

In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773 James Bruce. 1-': CHAP. in. Origin of Characters or Letters — Ethiopic the Jirsl Language— How and why the Hebrew Letter was formed. The reader will observe what I have already said ...
Citizen of the World: The Life of James Bryce

Citizen of the World: The Life of James Bryce

John Seaman

THIS IS AN NJR - NOT JACKET BLURB, DO NOT USE IT THIS RAW FORM Historian and politician, barrister and jurist, diplomat and traveller, mountaineer, and man of letters: James Bryce (1838-1922) was a towering figure at the heart of 19th ...
Midsummer

Midsummer

Derek Walcott

On the publication of Derek Walcott's previous collection, The Fortunate Traveller, Blake Morrison wrote in the London Review of Books: 'The Forunate Traveller is an impressive collection that moves lucidly and at times brilliantly between ...
Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham: Including His ...

Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham: Including His ...

James Silk Buckingham

This two-volume autobiography of James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), traveller, writer and social idealist, was published in 1855.
Two Wheels In The Dust: From Kathmandu to Kandy

Two Wheels In The Dust: From Kathmandu to Kandy

Anne Mustoe

Praise for Anne Mustoe: 'Evocative reading' Observer 'Her wry sense of humour is one of the great charms of Lone Traveller' Daily Telegraph 'A book about the true spirit found in real travellers, written by a real traveller' Wanderlust
Jessie's Journey: Autobiography of a Traveller Girl

Jessie's Journey: Autobiography of a Traveller Girl

Jess Smith

Autobiography of a Traveller Girl Jess Smith. 'Where's my basin?' she shouted, ' and why did you ignore me, your supper's frozen cold?' 'Mammy, dear, ken I fine we've not to disobey you, but I'll take the worst of your hand before I go back ...
The Elgin-Grey papers, 1846-1852

The Elgin-Grey papers, 1846-1852

James Bruce Elgin (Earl of)

Consists of the private letters of James Bruce, 8th earl of Elgin and Henry George, 3d earl of Grey ... when the Earl of Elgin was governor general of Canada and Earl Grey was secretary of state for the Colonies; and also miscellaneous ...
Sense and Sensibilia

Sense and Sensibilia

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John Langshaw Austin Geoffrey James Warnock. take a mirage to be a vision conjured up by the crazed brain of the thirsty and exhausted traveller (delusion), while in other accounts it is a case of atmospheric refraction, whereby something  ...
The Heritage of the Printer

The Heritage of the Printer

James Russell Eckman

But another Chicago designer of great talents, Oswald Bruce Cooper, did not attain the full measure of fame until the Roaring Twenties. Oswald Bruce Cooper, an odd genius who solved the problem of keeping unanswered letters by placing  ...
The Bruce web

The Bruce web

Thomas Allen Bruce

Kathryn McGonigal b. ca 1971 3. Mary Elizabeth McGonigal b. ca 1972 B7.3.4. 3.6.2. Patrick McGonigal b. 6 Oct. 1949, m. Carol ?? . 2.1. (son) McGonigal 2. ( son) McGonigal B7.3.4.3.6.3. Dennis James McGonigal b. ??, m. Frances ?? . 3.1 .
Attuned to Alien Moonlight: The Poetry of Bruce Dawe

Attuned to Alien Moonlight: The Poetry of Bruce Dawe

Dennis Haskell

UQP STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE General Editor: Anthony J. Hassall, James Cook University of North Queensland Advisory Editors: Bruce Bennett, Australian Defence Force Academy Jennifer Strauss, Monash University Also in ...
West's Federal Practice Digest

West's Federal Practice Digest

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BRUCE — Board of Trustees of Southern I1linois University, BkrtcyI1l, 3 BR 77. BRUCE — Cameron Brown Co., Bkrtcy- Va, 40 BR 884. BRUCE — Citizens & Southern Nat. Bank, CAMo, 562 F2d 590. BRUCE — Citizens and Southern Nat.
The Ladies of the Covenant: Memoirs of Distinguished ...

The Ladies of the Covenant: Memoirs of Distinguished ...

James Anderson

... who, besides being the most gifted, were the most pious, active, and faithful ministers of the church of Scotland, in their day. ... Mr. James Bruce, writing to him from Glasgow, in October, 1626, says : " The parish of Cambuslang is now vacant , ...

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