A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels: Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, Volumen7W. Blackwood, 1824 |
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Página 370 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Página 393 - ... prince or commonwealth. To conclude, it hath ever to this day pleased God to prosper and defend Her Majesty, to break the purposes of malicious enemies, of forsworn traitors and of unjust practices and invasions. She hath ever been...
Página 383 - Philip, being in the wind of him and coming towards him, becalmed his sails in such sort...
Página 392 - ... prince; thereby hoping in time to bring us to slavery and subjection, and then none shall be unto them so odious, and disdained as the...
Página 381 - ... that landed, being very many in number, were notwithstanding broken, slain and taken, and so sent from village to village, coupled in halters to be shipped into England, where her Majesty, of her princely and invincible disposition disdaining to put them to death, and scorning either to retain or entertain them, they were all sent back again to their countries, to witness and recount the worthy achievements of their invincible and dreadful navy, of which the number of soldiers, the fearful burthen...
Página 381 - Where, for the sympathy of their barbarous religion, hoping to find succour and assistance, a great part of them were crushed against the rocks, and those other that landed, being very many in number, were notwithstanding broken, slain and taken, and so sent from village to village coupled in halters, to be shipped into England. Where Her Majesty, of her princely and invincible disposition disdaining to put them to death, and scorning either...
Página 389 - Thus it hath pleased God to fight for us, and to defend the Justice of our cause, against the ambicious and bloudy pretences of the Spaniard, who seeking to devour all nations, are themselves devoured.
Página 421 - Lutherans and heretics .... saying further, that so soon as they had thrown the dead body of the Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Grenville overboard, they verily thought that as he had a devilish faith and religion, and therefore the devil loved him, so he presently sunk into the bottom of the sea and down into hell, where he raised up all the devils to the revenge of his death...
Página 477 - ... as they appeare. If they see a man with a beard they wonder at him. They have their teeth blacked both men and women, for they say a dogge hath his teeth white, therefore they will blacke theirs.
Página 417 - Ship, that if any man laid hand upon it, he would cause him to be hanged, and so by that occasion they were compelled to fight, and in the end were taken. He was of so hard a complexion, that as...