English Seamen Under the Tudors, Volumen1R. Bentley, 1868 - 314 páginas |
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... friends at home , beginning about the middle of the thirteenth century , gave great incitement to the cu- riosity of other friars and travellers . " One day , " says one them , Rubruquis , a Fleming , writing in 1255 , " there sat with ...
... friends at home , beginning about the middle of the thirteenth century , gave great incitement to the cu- riosity of other friars and travellers . " One day , " says one them , Rubruquis , a Fleming , writing in 1255 , " there sat with ...
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... friend , " he said , " whom I use familiarly , and delight to have him sometimes keep me company in my own house . " During this first term of Spanish service , however , Cabot was only employed as a map - maker and stay - at- home ...
... friend , " he said , " whom I use familiarly , and delight to have him sometimes keep me company in my own house . " During this first term of Spanish service , however , Cabot was only employed as a map - maker and stay - at- home ...
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... friends complained that " Sir Thomas Spert's faint heart was the cause that it took none effect . " But no one need be blamed for failure in an enterprise which , a thousand times at- tempted , was a thousand times unfortunate so far as ...
... friends complained that " Sir Thomas Spert's faint heart was the cause that it took none effect . " But no one need be blamed for failure in an enterprise which , a thousand times at- tempted , was a thousand times unfortunate so far as ...
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... friend even during his captivity in the Tower . The captivity was not long . In 1489 Thomas Howard was reinstated in his earldom and the possessions attached to it , and in succeeding years he was endowed with numerous important offices ...
... friend even during his captivity in the Tower . The captivity was not long . In 1489 Thomas Howard was reinstated in his earldom and the possessions attached to it , and in succeeding years he was endowed with numerous important offices ...
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... friends , Lord Ferrers , Sir Thomas Cheyne , Sir John Wallop , Sir Henry Shirborne , and Sir William Sidney . -Philip Sidney's grandfather - among the number , he told them that he was determined , at any risk , to attack Prester John's ...
... friends , Lord Ferrers , Sir Thomas Cheyne , Sir John Wallop , Sir Henry Shirborne , and Sir William Sidney . -Philip Sidney's grandfather - among the number , he told them that he was determined , at any risk , to attack Prester John's ...
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Página 206 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Página 204 - We were entertained with all love and kindness, and with as much bounty (after their manner) as they could possibly devise. We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.
Página 207 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realms...
Página 270 - Unto ours there remained no comfort at all, no hope, no supply either of ships, men, or weapons: — the...
Página 272 - Gunner finding himself and Sir Richard thus prevented and mastered by the greater number, would have slain himself with a sword, had he not been by force with-held and locked into his cabin. Then the General...
Página 206 - I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Página 227 - We ourselves, during the time we were there, used to suck it after their manner, as also since our return, and have found many rare and wonderful experiments of the virtues thereof, of which the relation would require a volume by itself. The use of it by so many of late, men and women of great calling as else, and some learned physicians also, is sufficient witness.
Página 271 - Revenge again, doubting lest Sir Richard would have blown them up and himself, and perceiving by the report of the master of the Revenge...
Página 274 - Here die I, Richard Grenville," were his last words, "with a joyful and a quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a good soldier ought to do, who has fought for his country and his queen, for honor and religion.
Página 98 - June 3, 1400 leagues in all, till we came into 42 deg. of north latitude, where in the night following we found such alteration of heat, into extreme and nipping cold, that our men in general did grievously complain...