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Cleveland applied to the Scottish nation; yet Dryden thought it worth while to weave the same verses into the prologue and epilogue of the tragedy of "Amboyna," a piece written in 1673, with the same kind intentions towards the states-general.
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801
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Giraldo Cinthio; but the rape in my tragedy of "Amboyna" was so like it, that I forbore the writing.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 John Dryden 1665
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"Amboyna" (1673) was a prose tragedy on the subject of the Dutch outrages, and "The State of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Does he really believe that those British Merchants who confessed during waterboarding in the Amboyna Massacre were actually guilty?
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Its articles evidence a wide range of knowledge on topics ranging from 'The natural History of the Swallow Tail'd Butterfly, and its Ichneumon' to the islands of Amboyna (one of the Moluccas) the customs of its inhabitants and 'the strange fruits and extraordinary marvels which are to be found in that country'.
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It was known as the tortura del agua during the Spanish Inquisition and was used by agents of the Dutch East India Company during the Amboyna massacre in 1623.
A Brief on the Use of Water Torture by American Officials in the War on Terrorism 2007
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I also obtained one or two specimens of the fine racquet-tailed kingfisher of Amboyna, Tanysiptera nais, one of the most singular and beautiful of that beautiful family.
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I bad hoped to find some rare tiger beetles, as I had done in similar situations in Celebes; but, though I searched closely in forest, river-bed, and mountain-brook, I could find nothing but the two common Amboyna species.
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Cajeli, twenty miles off; while at Amboyna, only sixty miles distant, a European population and government have been established for more than three hundred years.
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Going northward, Amboyna, a part of Bouru, and the west end of
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