The Chronicles of America Series: Elizabethan sea dogsYale University Press, 1918 |
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... RALEIGH , ABOUT THIRTY- FOUR YEARS OF AGE Painting attributed to Federigo Zucchero . In the National Portrait Gallery , London , England . Frontispiece Facing page 18 66 66 52 66 66 74 66 222 IN Ca sea and 7 bef OVE in sm wh xi.
... RALEIGH , ABOUT THIRTY- FOUR YEARS OF AGE Painting attributed to Federigo Zucchero . In the National Portrait Gallery , London , England . Frontispiece Facing page 18 66 66 52 66 66 74 66 222 IN Ca sea and 7 bef OVE in sm wh xi.
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... again . This time there was the full authorized flotilla of five sail , of which one turned back and four sailed on . Somewhere on the way John Cabot disappeared from history and his second son , Sebastian , 8 ELIZABETHAN SEA - DOGS.
... again . This time there was the full authorized flotilla of five sail , of which one turned back and four sailed on . Somewhere on the way John Cabot disappeared from history and his second son , Sebastian , 8 ELIZABETHAN SEA - DOGS.
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... four hundred years . Following the coast of Greenland past Cape Farewell , Sebastian Cabot turned north to look for the nearest course to India and Cathay , the lands of silks and spices , diamonds , rubies , pearls , and gold . John ...
... four hundred years . Following the coast of Greenland past Cape Farewell , Sebastian Cabot turned north to look for the nearest course to India and Cathay , the lands of silks and spices , diamonds , rubies , pearls , and gold . John ...
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... four hun- dredth anniversary of his discovery of an island in the Bahamas excited the interest of the whole world and was celebrated with great enthusiasm in the United States . The four hundredth anni- versary of the Cabots ' discovery ...
... four hun- dredth anniversary of his discovery of an island in the Bahamas excited the interest of the whole world and was celebrated with great enthusiasm in the United States . The four hundredth anni- versary of the Cabots ' discovery ...
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... four years ' journey to South America , is hindered by a mutiny , explores the River Plate ( La Plata ) , and returns in 1530 , about the time of the voyage to Brazil of ' Master William Haukins , ' of which we shall hear later on . In ...
... four years ' journey to South America , is hindered by a mutiny , explores the River Plate ( La Plata ) , and returns in 1530 , about the time of the voyage to Brazil of ' Master William Haukins , ' of which we shall hear later on . In ...
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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.