The Chronicles of America Series: Elizabethan sea dogsYale University Press, 1918 |
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... Captain of the Sea ' with a handsome salary attached . Six years later the Emperor Charles V made him ' Chief Pilot and Examiner of Pilots . ' Another six years and he is sitting as a nautical assessor to find out the longitude of the ...
... Captain of the Sea ' with a handsome salary attached . Six years later the Emperor Charles V made him ' Chief Pilot and Examiner of Pilots . ' Another six years and he is sitting as a nautical assessor to find out the longitude of the ...
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... Captain , we are foul of each other and the ship is on fire ! ' ' Cut anything to get clear and smother the fire with wet cloths ! ' In such a case they will bee presentlie such friends as to help one the other all they can to get clear ...
... Captain , we are foul of each other and the ship is on fire ! ' ' Cut anything to get clear and smother the fire with wet cloths ! ' In such a case they will bee presentlie such friends as to help one the other all they can to get clear ...
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... captain in a singular wise manner carried himself with countenance very cheerful outwardly , although inwardly his heart was broken in pieces for it ; done to this end , that the Portugals , being with him , should not presume to resist ...
... captain in a singular wise manner carried himself with countenance very cheerful outwardly , although inwardly his heart was broken in pieces for it ; done to this end , that the Portugals , being with him , should not presume to resist ...
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... captain in the ship's pinnace sailed along the shore and went into every creek , speaking with divers of the Floridians , be- cause he would understand where the Frenchmen inhabited . Finally he found them ' in the river of May [ now St ...
... captain in the ship's pinnace sailed along the shore and went into every creek , speaking with divers of the Floridians , be- cause he would understand where the Frenchmen inhabited . Finally he found them ' in the river of May [ now St ...
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... captain Monsieur Laudonnière was , with certain soldiers therein . ' The colony had not been a success . Nor is this to be wondered at when we remember that most of the ' certain soldiers ' were ex - pirates , who wanted gold , and ...
... captain Monsieur Laudonnière was , with certain soldiers therein . ' The colony had not been a success . Nor is this to be wondered at when we remember that most of the ' certain soldiers ' were ex - pirates , who wanted gold , and ...
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Seite 196 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Seite 233 - Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 233 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 60 - Why, as men do a-land ; the great ones eat up the little ones. I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale ; 'a plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping, till they've swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells and all.
Seite 158 - My very good Lord, there is now a very great gap opened, very little to the liking of the King of Spain. ' This 'very great gap' on the American side of the Atlantic was soon to be matched by the still greater gap Drake was to make on the European side by destroying the Spanish Armada and thus securing that mightiest of ocean highways through which the hosts of emigration afterwards poured into a land endowed with the goodly heritage of English liberty and the English tongue. The year of Drake's...
Seite 60 - I'll drive his patent for him. We'll take in citizens, commoners, and aldermen, To bear the charge, and blow them off again, Like so many dead flies, when it is carried.
Seite 122 - I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. What, let us show ourselves all to be of a company, and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. I would know him that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
Seite 118 - great store of wild-fire, chain-shot, harquebusses, pistols, corslets, bows and other like weapons in great abundance. Neither had he omitted to make provision for ornament and delight, carrying with him expert musicians, rich furniture (all the vessels for his table, yea, many belonging even to the cook-room, being of pure silver), and divers shows of all sorts of curious workmanship whereby the civility and magnificence of his native country might amongst all nations withersoever he should come,...
Seite 115 - He had it from me,' quoth Master Doughty. 'Lo, my masters,' quoth he, 'what this fellow hath done; God will have his treacheries all known, for her Majesty gave me special commandment that of all men my Lord Treasurer should not know it, but to see [sic] he his own mouth hath betrayed him.
Seite 83 - And although in the beginning they seemed to be but small hurts, yet there hardly escaped any that had blood drawn of them, but died in strange sort, with their mouths shut some ten days before they died, and after their wounds were whole; where I myself had one of the greatest wounds, yet, thanks be to God, escaped.