Cabot's Discovery of North AmericaJ. Macqueen, 1897 - 343 páginas |
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... sailed into the Southern Ocean . When autumn came they went ashore , wherever they might happen to be , and , having sown a tract of land with corn , waited until the grain was fit to cut . Having reaped it , they again set sail ; and ...
... sailed into the Southern Ocean . When autumn came they went ashore , wherever they might happen to be , and , having sown a tract of land with corn , waited until the grain was fit to cut . Having reaped it , they again set sail ; and ...
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... sailed along the West Coast of Africa . The Car- thaginians also claimed ( on the authority of Hero- dotus , Book IV . 43 ) that an expedition under Sataspes , son of Teaspes , sailed from Egypt , and having passed the Straits [ of ...
... sailed along the West Coast of Africa . The Car- thaginians also claimed ( on the authority of Hero- dotus , Book IV . 43 ) that an expedition under Sataspes , son of Teaspes , sailed from Egypt , and having passed the Straits [ of ...
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... sailed from Spain , on the occasion of the conquest of the Spanish peninsula by the Moors , in the early part of the eighth century , and after a long voyage in the " Sea of Darkness " they dis- covered the island . They were ...
... sailed from Spain , on the occasion of the conquest of the Spanish peninsula by the Moors , in the early part of the eighth century , and after a long voyage in the " Sea of Darkness " they dis- covered the island . They were ...
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... ments that they had not sailed one hundred leagues to the westward . . . He says , moreover , that in the year 1484 a man came to Portugal from the island of Madeira to beg a caravel of the king 46 CABOT'S DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA.
... ments that they had not sailed one hundred leagues to the westward . . . He says , moreover , that in the year 1484 a man came to Portugal from the island of Madeira to beg a caravel of the king 46 CABOT'S DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA.
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... sailed over the Atlantic Ocean to a most fruitful island . . . . This island the Portuguese inserted in their maps , calling it Antilla ; and though they did not give it the same situation designated by Aristotle , yet none placed it ...
... sailed over the Atlantic Ocean to a most fruitful island . . . . This island the Portuguese inserted in their maps , calling it Antilla ; and though they did not give it the same situation designated by Aristotle , yet none placed it ...
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Página 26 - Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Página 17 - They are Idolaters, and are dependent on nobody. And I can tell you the quantity of gold they have is • '. '• ' • '. . endless; for they find It in their own Islands, /and the King does not allow it to be exported.
Página 111 - Richard by the grace of God king of England and of France, and lord of Ireland...
Página 300 - They despised everything but virtue, not caring for their present state of life, and thinking lightly on the possession of gold, and other property, which seemed only a burden to them; neither were they intoxicated by luxury, nor did wealth deprive them of their selfcontrol; but they were sober, and saw clearly that all these goods are increased by virtuous friendship with one another...
Página 289 - Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean...
Página 290 - ... of Atlantis, which, as I was saying, once had an extent greater than that of Libya and Asia; and when afterwards sunk by an earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to the ocean. The progress of the history will unfold the various tribes of barbarians and Hellenes which then existed, as they successively appear on the scene; but I must begin by describing first of all the Athenians, as they were in that day, and their enemies who fought with them; and I shall...
Página 61 - ... or elsewhere, as should be exhibited to these presents. It shall therefore be lawful for no man to infringe or rashly to contrary this letter of our commendation, exhortation, request, donation, grant, assignation, constitution, deputation, decree, commandment, inhibition, and determination. And if any shall presume to attempt the same, he ought to know that he shall thereby incur the indignation of Almighty God and his Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
Página 48 - At last — (it was the Christmas night, Stars shone after a day of storm) — He sees float past an iceberg white, And on it — Christ! — a living form! That furtive mien, that scowling eye, Of hair that red and tufted fell It is — Oh, where shall Brandan fly? — The traitor Judas, out of hell!
Página 289 - Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent...
Página 176 - Henry the 7. who then raigned, insomuch that all men with great admiration affirmed it to be a thing more divine than humane, to saile by the West into the East where spices growe, by a way that was never knowen before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing.