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The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3)Joseph Pitton de TournefortDr. Thomas ShawFrederic HasselquistLady Wortley MontagueRichard PocockeJohn BellJohn LedyardGeorge ForsterJames BruceJonas H..

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 3

James Augustus St. John

PETER SIMON PALLAS: This traveller, whose works are comparatively little known in England, was born at Berlin, September 22, 1741. His father, who was an able surgeon, entertained the design of educat..

The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 1 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

The Athenian people, on this and similar occasions, xxiiwere enabled to resolve and perform boldly from the generous spirit inspired by their national system of education. Their institutions, also, we..

The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

The marriage of brothers with their own sisters was, in later ages, considered illegal; not so with respect to half sisters by the fathers’s side, whom no law forbade men to marry. Still the recorded ..