Encyclopaedia Britannica [17, 3 ed.]

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,1 BRirANNICA;

ENCTCLOPJEDIA

DICTIONARY ARTS, SCIENCES, o r

AND

MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE; Conftrudled on a PLAN, BY WHICH

THE DIFFERENT SCIENCES AND ARTS Are digefted into the

TREATISES

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SYSTEMS,

COMPREHENDING

The

HISTORY, THEORY,

and

PRACTICE,

of each,

according to the Lateft Difcoveries and Improvements; FULL

EXPLANATIONS aiysti

OF THE

VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE, WHETHER RELATING TO

NATURAL

and ARTIFICIAL Objects, or to Matters ECCLESIASTICAL, CIVIL, MILITARY, COMMERCIAL, &C.

Including

ELUCIDATIONS

of the mod important Topics relative to RELIGION, MORALS, and the OECONOMY of LIFE :

MANNERS,

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of all the Countries, Cities, principal Mountains, Seas, Rivers, 6c. throughout the W o R L D ;

DESCRIPTION

\ General

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HISTORY,

Ancient and Modern, of the different Empires, Kingdoms, and States >

An Account of the L i v E s of the molt Eminent Perfons in every Nation, from the earlieft ages down to the prefent times.

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AMES could never forgive Henr)'’ for the lofa of his brave officer. He fent to demand fatisfadtlon ; but all the anfwer he received was, that Barton and his crews were lawlefs pirates, and that what had been done agalnft them ought never to have been refented amongft fovcreign princes. Tames alferted, that Barton was no \ pirate, becaufe he bore his commlffion ; and that he ought to have been convIdled of piratical afts before V '8v "S be was treatf