The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation Made by Sea Or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeeres, Tema 12J. MacLehose and sons, 1905 |
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... expedition to reach the mainland of America , which Columbus never set eyes on till a year later , much has been made in con- troversy of the priority of the English claim . But indeed in these timid beginnings nothing was further from ...
... expedition to reach the mainland of America , which Columbus never set eyes on till a year later , much has been made in con- troversy of the priority of the English claim . But indeed in these timid beginnings nothing was further from ...
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... expedition would pay its promoters in temporal coin . ' I gave to the subject , ' he says in the account of his Third Voyage , ' six or seven years of great anxiety , explaining , to the best of my ability , how great service might be ...
... expedition would pay its promoters in temporal coin . ' I gave to the subject , ' he says in the account of his Third Voyage , ' six or seven years of great anxiety , explaining , to the best of my ability , how great service might be ...
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... expedition his ships were detained three years ; and which mountain your Highnesses now possess in the island of Hispaniola ; .. Alexander , who sent to observe the mode of Government in the island of Taprobana , in India ; and Cæsar ...
... expedition his ships were detained three years ; and which mountain your Highnesses now possess in the island of Hispaniola ; .. Alexander , who sent to observe the mode of Government in the island of Taprobana , in India ; and Cæsar ...
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... expedition cast grave doubts on the possibility of reaching Cathay by the North East . By this time , moreover , Frobisher's voyages to the North West had awakened hopes of gold to be found in that inhospitable region ; and Hawkins and ...
... expedition cast grave doubts on the possibility of reaching Cathay by the North East . By this time , moreover , Frobisher's voyages to the North West had awakened hopes of gold to be found in that inhospitable region ; and Hawkins and ...
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... expedition was without substantial results in discovery or profit , and but for an accident , would hardly have been repeated . One of the company chanced to pick up and bring home a piece of shining black stone , which the assayers of ...
... expedition was without substantial results in discovery or profit , and but for an accident , would hardly have been repeated . One of the company chanced to pick up and bring home a piece of shining black stone , which the assayers of ...
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Página 111 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont...
Página 111 - It gives me wonder great as my content To see you here before me. O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death.
Página 2 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the...
Página 99 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Página 9 - VII. who then reigned, insomuch that all men with great admiration affirmed it to be a thing more divine than human, to sail by the west into the east where spices grow, by a way that was never known before...
Página 105 - Where they shall meet and join their force in one, Keeping in awe the bay of Portingale, And all the ocean by the British shore ; And by this means I'll win the world at last.
Página 27 - Give me leave, therefore, without offence, always to live and die in this mind : that he is not worthy to live at all that, for fear or danger of death, shunneth his country's service and his own honour, seeing that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue immortal, wherefore in this behalf mutare vel timere sperno.
Página 106 - I into Egypt and Arabia, And here, not far from Alexandria, Whereas the Terrene and the Red Sea meet, Being distant less than full a hundred • leagues, I meant to cut a channel to them both, ! That men might quickly sail to India.
Página 70 - I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit to me was a great ship of the king's, which I took at California,
Página 101 - Yet all these were, when no man did them know, Yet have from wisest ages hidden beene ; And later times thinges more unknowne shall show.