A Memoir of Sebastian Cabot: With a Review of the History of Maritime Discovery : Illustrated by Documents from the Rolls, Now First PublishedCarey and Lea, 1831 - 327 páginas |
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... brought to England and exhibited at Court - Erroneous reference of this incident to Cabot - Hakluyt's perversion - Second Patent 9th December , 1502 - Dr Robertson's misconceptions - Probable reasons for the abandonment of the ...
... brought to England and exhibited at Court - Erroneous reference of this incident to Cabot - Hakluyt's perversion - Second Patent 9th December , 1502 - Dr Robertson's misconceptions - Probable reasons for the abandonment of the ...
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... brought to a close , completing by the fifty - second volume its triumph over the alphabet . It is a work destined , unquestion- ably , to exercise an important influence over the Rights of the Dead of all Nations . When it stated that ...
... brought to a close , completing by the fifty - second volume its triumph over the alphabet . It is a work destined , unquestion- ably , to exercise an important influence over the Rights of the Dead of all Nations . When it stated that ...
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... citie of London , while I was very yong , yet having neverthelesse some knowledge of let- ters of humanitie , and of the sphere . And when my father died in that time B when newes were brought that Don Christopher Colonus Genoese had 9 .
... citie of London , while I was very yong , yet having neverthelesse some knowledge of let- ters of humanitie , and of the sphere . And when my father died in that time B when newes were brought that Don Christopher Colonus Genoese had 9 .
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... brought that Don Christopher Colonus Genoese had discovered the coasts of India , whereof was great talke in all the court of king Henry the Seventh , who then raigned , insomuch that all men with great admiration affirmed it to be a ...
... brought that Don Christopher Colonus Genoese had discovered the coasts of India , whereof was great talke in all the court of king Henry the Seventh , who then raigned , insomuch that all men with great admiration affirmed it to be a ...
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... brought to the test , the statement of the conversation is erroneous , and that the limited latitude is inconsistent with the continued day - light -- a circumstance more likely to be remembered than a matter of figures - what can be ...
... brought to the test , the statement of the conversation is erroneous , and that the limited latitude is inconsistent with the continued day - light -- a circumstance more likely to be remembered than a matter of figures - what can be ...
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Página 1 - I retire from the field, conscious that there remains behind not only a large harvest, but labourers capable of gathering it in. More than one writer has of late displayed talents of this description ; and if the present author, himself a phantom, may be permitted .to distinguish a brother, or perhaps a sister shadow, he would mention, in particular, the author of the very lively work, entitled
Página 5 - ONE HUNDRED PERRIN'S FABLES, ACCOMPANIED BY A KEY, Containing the text, a literal and free translation, arranged in such a manner as to point out the difference between the French and English idiom, &c., in 1 vol., 12mo.
Página 5 - A COLLECTION OF COLLOQUIAL PHRASES, ON EVERY TOPIC NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN CONVERSATION, Arranged under different heads, with numerous remarks on the peculiar pronunciation and...
Página 10 - East, where spices grove, by a way that was neuer knowen before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing And understanding by reason of the sphere, that if I should, saile by way of the North-west, I should by a shorter tract come into India, I thereupon caused the king to be advertised of my devise, who immediately commanded two caravels to bee furnished with all things appertaining to the voyage, which was as farre as I remember...
Página 190 - JAMES, by the grace of God, king of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith; and of Scotland the seven and fortieth.
Página 190 - Ordinances, Instructions, and Advertisements of, and for the direction of the intended voyage for Cathay, compiled, made, and delivered by the right worshipful M. Sebastian Cabota, Esq. Governour of the Mysterie and Companie of the Merchants Adventurers for the discoverie of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and places unknowen, the 9th day of May, in the yere of our Lord God 1553...
Página 71 - ... to seek out, discover, and find whatsoever isles, countries, regions, or provinces of the heathen and infidels whatsoever they be, and in what part of the world soever they be, which before this time have been unknown to all Christians.
Página 159 - Among all the European arts, what he admired most was that of reading and writing ; and he long deliberated with himself, whether he should regard it as a natural or acquired talent. In order to determine this, he desired one of the soldiers, who guarded him, to write the name of God on the nail of his thumb. This he...