History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort, with a Full View of the English-Dutch Struggle Against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish ArmadaJ. Murray, 1860 |
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Página 57 - Above all, govern your will and affections by the will and word of your Creator; in me beholding the end of this world with all her vanities.
Página 169 - I recommend to you a very particular friend of mine. Let me bespeak your best offices in his behalf.
Página 493 - ... of the Armada, which afforded so easy a mark ; while the Spaniards, on their part, found it impossible, while wasting incredible quantities of powder and shot, to inflict any severe damage on their enemies. Throughout the action, not an English ship was destroyed, and not a hundred men were killed.
Página 493 - Calais, if it were within his power. Nevertheless the English still partially maintained the tactics which had proved so successful, and resolutely 'refused the fierce attempts of the Spaniards to lay themselves along-side. Keeping within musket-range, the well-disciplined English mariners poured broadside after broadside against the towering ships of the Armada, which afforded so easy a mark ; while the Spaniards, on their part, found it impossible, while wasting incredible quantities of powder...
Página 48 - For yonder comes Lord Willoughbey With courage fierce and fell, He will not give one inch of way For all the devils in hell.
Página 531 - King did not change countenance. " Great thanks," he observed, "do I render to Almighty God, by whose generous hand I am gifted with such power, that I could easily, if I chose, place another fleet upon the seas. Nor is it of very great importance that a running stream should be sometimes intercepted, so long as the fountain from which it flows remains inexhaustible.
Página 488 - Farnese as though they had been toys of glass. They knew too that the famous engineer was at that moment in England. In a moment one of those horrible panics which spread with such contagious rapidity among large bodies of men, seized upon the Spaniards. There was a yell throughout the fleet —
Página 501 - I doubt it not but ere it be long so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at St. Mary Port among his orange trees.
Página 471 - The superior seamanship of free Englishmen, commanded by such experienced captains as Drake, Frobisher, and Hawkins, — from infancy at home on blue water, — was manifest in the very first encounter. They obtained the weather-gage at once, and cannonaded the enemy at intervals with...
Página 504 - With all which so great and terrible an ostentation, they did not in all their sailing round about England so much as sink, or take, one ship, bark, pinnace, or cockboat of ours, or ever burnt so much as one sheepcote of this land.