 | Julian Stafford Corbett - 1898 - 432 Seiten
...Indies this last year, the cause best known to God ; and we had at that instant very foul weather.1 My very good Lord, there is now a very great gap opened very little to the liking of the King of Spain. God work it all to his glory. These gentlemen, the bearers hereof, have been actors and eyewitnesses... | |
 | Julian Stafford Corbett - 1899 - 506 Seiten
...a triumphant success. ' My very good Lord,' wrote Drake to Burghley when he got back to Plymouth, ' there is now a very great gap opened, very little to the liking of the King of Spain. God work it all to His glory.' This with an eager request for fresh orders was all he had to say of... | |
 | Henry Lawrence Swinburne, Norman Wilkinson, Charles Napier Robinson - 1907 - 648 Seiten
...Spain with rage and dismay, and Europe with an amazed amusement, all the comment he has to make is, " My very good Lord, there is now a very great gap opened very little to the liking of the King of Spain. God work it all to his glory." Even these achievements, however, paled before those of the following... | |
 | 1919 - 466 Seiten
...Spaniards broke after Carleill had killed their standard-bearer and Goring had wounded and taken their commander. The enemies ran pell-mell through the town...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... | |
 | William Charles Henry Wood - 1918 - 286 Seiten
...place fell. But again there was a dearth of booty. The Spaniards were getting shy of keeping too nany > valuables where they could be taken. So negotiations,...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... | |
 | William Wood - 1918 - 302 Seiten
...fleet by only half a day, though through no fault of his own. Then, with constantly diminishing it. numbers of effective men, the course was shaped for...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... | |
 | William Wood - 1921 - 280 Seiten
...through no fault of his own. Then, with constantly diminishing numbers of effective men, the course \vt£ shaped for the Spanish 'plantation' of St. Augustine...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... | |
 | Allen Johnson, Gerhard Richard Lomer, Charles William Jefferys - 1921 - 302 Seiten
...three-day storm wrecked the store ship and damped the colonists' enthusiasm so much that they persuade* Lane to change his mind. The colonists embarked and...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... | |
 | Cameron Rogers - 1927 - 314 Seiten
...His report to the ageing Cecil, the great Lord Burleigh, shows that he knew the value of his work. "My very good Lord, there is now a very great gap...opened, very little to the liking of the King of Spain. God work it all to His glory." Still cautious and only half won over to the cause of open war, the... | |
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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... 