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Title: Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Chambers, William, 1800-1883 Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871
Subjects: Tracts
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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M AND P.OBERT CHAMBERS CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. Life of Captain Cook, - - - - Anecdotes of the Horse, - - - William of Orange and the Netherlands,Passion and Principle, . - - Life-Assurance : a Familiar Dialogue, -Excursion to the Oregon, - - - Mrs Macclarty. Scenes from the * Cottagers of Glenburnie, . . - - The Little Captive King, - - - Children of the Yf ilds— Peter the Wild Eoy, . - - Mademoiselle Leblanc, Victor, the Savage of Aveyron, Casper Hauser, . - - Select Poems on Love for Flowers,Life of Flora Macdonald,Cleanliness—Bathing—Ventilation,Anecdotes of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind,Sir Stamford Saffles and the Spice Islands,The Sister of Rembrandt, Anecdotes of the Cat, . - - Its Only a Drop. By Mrs S. C. Hall,Toussaint LOuverture and the Republic of Hayti,Curiosities of Vegetation, - - - The Ancient Mariner, and other Poebis, by Coleridge, No. Page 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 1 48 5 48 10 48 12 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 EDINBURGH :PSINTED BY W. AND R. CHAMBERS. 1854.
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LOVE of maritime enterj)rise is one of thosewell-known characteristics of British youth,which have led to innumerable instances of dar-ing* intrepidity on the seas around our coasts,as well as the most distant parts of the ocean.This quality of mind, to which Britain owes somuch of her supremacy in the scale of nations,has been seldom more strikingly manifested thanin the case of Captain Cook, a man who, from the humblestrank in life, and after encountering the difficulties which usuallylie in the path of a sailor, rose, by dint of good behaviour, intelli-gence, and the energy of his character, to the highest honoursof his profession. As an inspiring page in general biography,we offer a sketch of the life of this distinguished individual.James Cook was born in a mud hut at Marton, in the northNo, 40. 1 XIFE OF CAPTAIN COOK. riding of Yorkshire, 27tli October 1728. His father was anagricultural servant, who, with his wife, bore a most unexception-able character for honesty and industry

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