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Our objective is to imagine and reconstruct the many possible outcomes base" on known historical factors as viewe" through the prism of contemporary knowledge.
Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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Their children in their infancie, are not nourished vp at the libertie and will of the parentes: but certeine there are appointed to viewe the children: whiche yf thei spie vntowardnes in the infante, deformitie, or lacke of lymmes, commande it to be slayne.
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We haue sent you a Skinner to be there at our charges for meate, drinke, and lodging, to viewe and see such furres as you shall cheape or buye, not minding neuerthelesse, that you shall charge your selues with many, except those which bee most vendible, as good marterns, miniuers, otherwise called Lettis and Mynkes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Westnorthwest Northerly, the land being very high and full of mightie mountaines all couered with snow, no viewe of wood, grass or earth to be seene, and the shore two leagues off into the sea so full of yce that no shipping could by any meanes come neere the same.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For the place in viewe is dangerous and verye vnpleasing, and in the execution to passe Nothing may seeme more doubtful, for 14 leagues west within the cape of Saint Maria lyeth the first straight, where it floweth and ebbeth with violent swiftnes, the straight not half a mile broad, the first fall into which straight is verye dangerous and doubtfull.
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But the said Admirall (I knowe not by what meanes) bearing all his sailes, was caried away with so great force and swiftnesse, that not long after hee was quite out of sight, and the third ship also with the same storme and like rage was dispersed and lost vs. The shippe boate of the Admirall (striking against the shippe,) was ouerwhelmed in the sight and viewe of the Mariners of the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For the place in viewe is dangerous and verye vnpleasing, and in the execution to passe Nothing may seeme more doubtful, for 14 leagues west within the cape of Saint Maria lyeth the first straight, where it floweth and ebbeth with violent swiftnes, the straight not half a mile broad, the first fall into which straight is verye dangerous and doubtfull.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And on the morrow, as it was reported to vs, hee came to a Church nigh the towne called Saint Steuen, for to viewe the Towne and fortresses, whereas they had set vp mantellets for to lay their ordinance.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But 23 years after he led the country to independence, Mugabe, who turns 79 on Friday, is now viewe as a pariah, criticised by observers and foreign governments for stamping out attempts to replace him.
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There is a faire Castle, the walles whereof are of bricke, and very high: they say they are eighteene foote thicke, but I doe not beleeue it, it doth not so seeme, notwithstanding I doe not certainely know it: for no stranger may come to viewe it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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