The Chronicles of America Series: Elizabethan sea dogsYale University Press, 1918 |
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... . A Venetian in London wrote home to say that ' this fellow - citizen of ours , who went from Bristol in quest of new islands , is Zuan Caboto , whom the English now call a great admiral . He dresses in silk ; they pay ENGLAND'S FIRST LOOK.
... . A Venetian in London wrote home to say that ' this fellow - citizen of ours , who went from Bristol in quest of new islands , is Zuan Caboto , whom the English now call a great admiral . He dresses in silk ; they pay ENGLAND'S FIRST LOOK.
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great admiral . He dresses in silk ; they pay him great honour ; and everyone runs after him like mad . ' The Spanish ambassador was full of suspicion , in spite of the fact that Cabot had not gone south . Had not His Holiness divided ...
great admiral . He dresses in silk ; they pay him great honour ; and everyone runs after him like mad . ' The Spanish ambassador was full of suspicion , in spite of the fact that Cabot had not gone south . Had not His Holiness divided ...
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... Admiral , while the governor was our old friend Sebastian Cabot , now in his eightieth year . Philip was Crown Prince of the Spanish Empire , and his father , Charles V , was very anxious that he should please the stubborn English ; for ...
... Admiral , while the governor was our old friend Sebastian Cabot , now in his eightieth year . Philip was Crown Prince of the Spanish Empire , and his father , Charles V , was very anxious that he should please the stubborn English ; for ...
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... Admiral , for instance , comes from the Arabic for a commander - in - chief . Amir - al - bahr means com- mander of the sea . Most of the nautical techni- calities would strike a seaman of the present day as being quite modern . The ...
... Admiral , for instance , comes from the Arabic for a commander - in - chief . Amir - al - bahr means com- mander of the sea . Most of the nautical techni- calities would strike a seaman of the present day as being quite modern . The ...
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... Admiral of New England ' · ' Pocahontas Smith , ' in fact . ' A sail ! ' ' How bears she ? To - windward or lee - ward ? Set him by the compass ! ' ' Hee stands right a - head ' ( or On the weather- bow , or lee - bow ) . ' Let fly your ...
... Admiral of New England ' · ' Pocahontas Smith , ' in fact . ' A sail ! ' ' How bears she ? To - windward or lee - ward ? Set him by the compass ! ' ' Hee stands right a - head ' ( or On the weather- bow , or lee - bow ) . ' Let fly your ...
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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.