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... character of the Sandwich Islanders is , in many respects , one of those clearly marked developments of national life on which we always gaze with peculiar interest , from the distinctness with which we trace the lines of dissimilarity ...
... character of the Sandwich Islanders is , in many respects , one of those clearly marked developments of national life on which we always gaze with peculiar interest , from the distinctness with which we trace the lines of dissimilarity ...
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... character as that of the present King -- all of these are transacted with a strange singularity of event , in the most glowing colours before our eyes . But perhaps of all others the religious history of the people is the strangest ...
... character as that of the present King -- all of these are transacted with a strange singularity of event , in the most glowing colours before our eyes . But perhaps of all others the religious history of the people is the strangest ...
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... character of the scenery depends on that con- dition . Indeed , it is probable that they are but domes concealing the vast internal fires , and the crust which separates living nature from this great agent of destruc- tion seems in ...
... character of the scenery depends on that con- dition . Indeed , it is probable that they are but domes concealing the vast internal fires , and the crust which separates living nature from this great agent of destruc- tion seems in ...
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... character fall at this season , and also play their part in flushing streets and cleansing hidden corners . But the sybarites of the capital dislike the three months ' interval of settled calmness , com- plain of it , and write little ...
... character fall at this season , and also play their part in flushing streets and cleansing hidden corners . But the sybarites of the capital dislike the three months ' interval of settled calmness , com- plain of it , and write little ...
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... character , crowned with a battery , guards the entrance of the smaller bay which forms the harbour of Honolulu . At the foot of the mountains extends a fertile plain , ten miles in length , and , in parts , two miles in width from the ...
... character , crowned with a battery , guards the entrance of the smaller bay which forms the harbour of Honolulu . At the foot of the mountains extends a fertile plain , ten miles in length , and , in parts , two miles in width from the ...
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