A Memoir of Sebastian Cabot: With a Review of the History of Maritime DiscoveryCarey and Lea, 1831 - 327 páginas |
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... Herrera , and Fumée -Edition of Ptolemy , published at Bâsle , 1540 — The name Labrador , i . e . Labourer CHAP . V. 241 Circumstances which have led to errors as to the voyage of Cortereal — The Portuguese Maps - Isle of Demons - The ...
... Herrera , and Fumée -Edition of Ptolemy , published at Bâsle , 1540 — The name Labrador , i . e . Labourer CHAP . V. 241 Circumstances which have led to errors as to the voyage of Cortereal — The Portuguese Maps - Isle of Demons - The ...
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... Herrera , ( dec . i . lib . 6. cap . 16 ) in rejecting the fraction , adopts the higher number , and states Cabot to have reach- ed 68 ° . We proceed now to establish the proposition which stands at the head of this chapter , but must ...
... Herrera , ( dec . i . lib . 6. cap . 16 ) in rejecting the fraction , adopts the higher number , and states Cabot to have reach- ed 68 ° . We proceed now to establish the proposition which stands at the head of this chapter , but must ...
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... Herrera ( Dec. i . lib . ix . cap . 13 ) , whom Purchas himself quotes ( vol . iv . p . 177 to that point . In defiance of the contemporary " Effigies , " and of these foreign authorities , most modern writers , Hume , Forster ...
... Herrera ( Dec. i . lib . ix . cap . 13 ) , whom Purchas himself quotes ( vol . iv . p . 177 to that point . In defiance of the contemporary " Effigies , " and of these foreign authorities , most modern writers , Hume , Forster ...
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... Herrera , the writer of the highest authority on these subjects - Historiographer of the King of Spain , and enjoying familiar access to every document , stated , more than two centuries ago , that Cabot received his appointment from ...
... Herrera , the writer of the highest authority on these subjects - Historiographer of the King of Spain , and enjoying familiar access to every document , stated , more than two centuries ago , that Cabot received his appointment from ...
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... Herrera is known in this country only through a wretched translation , made about a century ago by a " Captain John Stevens , " re- plete with errors , and in which many passages of the greatest interest are entirely omitted . Amongst ...
... Herrera is known in this country only through a wretched translation , made about a century ago by a " Captain John Stevens , " re- plete with errors , and in which many passages of the greatest interest are entirely omitted . Amongst ...
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Página 10 - I departed from thence and returned into England, where I found great tumults among the people, and preparation for warres in Scotland; by reason whereof there was no more consideration had to this voyage.
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 300 - He kept a strait hand on his nobility, and chose rather to advance clergymen and lawyers, which were more obsequious to him, but had less interest in the people; which made for his absoluteness, but not for his safety.
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 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.
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 279 - Howe much these dealings offended the Almightie, and vouched the Scriptures from first to last, what God had in cases of distresse done for them that called upon him...
Página 78 - The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol, compiled from original Records and authentic Manuscripts in public offices or private hands. By William Barrett. Bristol, 1789,
Página 214 - Gentleman Master Cabota gave to the poore most liberall almes, wishing them to pray for the good fortune, and prosperous successe of the Serchthrift, our Pinnesse.
Página 239 - These people are ill affected towards the English by reason of one Hunt, a master of a ship, who deceived the people and got them, under color of trucking with them, twenty out of this very place where we inhabit, and seven men from the Nausites, and carried them away, and sold them for slaves, like a wretched man (for twenty pound a man,) that cares not what mischief he doth for his profit.