Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others, Issue 20J. MacLehose and sons, 1907 - North America |
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... dayes truce to be given them , with liberty either to stay in the Citie , or to goe to the Castle ; and if the King of Navarre ( Henry the fourth , the French King ) did not in that space relieve them , they were to yeelde the Castle ...
... dayes truce to be given them , with liberty either to stay in the Citie , or to goe to the Castle ; and if the King of Navarre ( Henry the fourth , the French King ) did not in that space relieve them , they were to yeelde the Castle ...
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... dayes unlooked for battery to the French , and therewith tooke * not that Towne alone , but the joy of life also from that unfor- tunate Queene ; both which seeming disasters were the price of Englands faire purchases , both gaine and ...
... dayes unlooked for battery to the French , and therewith tooke * not that Towne alone , but the joy of life also from that unfor- tunate Queene ; both which seeming disasters were the price of Englands faire purchases , both gaine and ...
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... dayes after Sir Robert Crosse had in a manner the like mischance . Now being thus betweene the North Cape , and Cape S. Vincent , and yet keeping such a course a loofe , that by no meanes , those from the shoare might be able to descrie ...
... dayes after Sir Robert Crosse had in a manner the like mischance . Now being thus betweene the North Cape , and Cape S. Vincent , and yet keeping such a course a loofe , that by no meanes , those from the shoare might be able to descrie ...
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... dayes , certaine little stragling Caravels were taken by certaine of the Fleete , and in one of them a yong beggerly Fryer utterly unlearned , with a great packet of Letters for Lisbon . 1596 . Letters taken . Some which professe The 18 ...
... dayes , certaine little stragling Caravels were taken by certaine of the Fleete , and in one of them a yong beggerly Fryer utterly unlearned , with a great packet of Letters for Lisbon . 1596 . Letters taken . Some which professe The 18 ...
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... dayes as I remember ) the gallies that were run on ground , did quit themselves , also out of that place , and by the Bridge of the Iland called Puente de Suaço , made their way round about the same Iland , and so by putting themselves ...
... dayes as I remember ) the gallies that were run on ground , did quit themselves , also out of that place , and by the Bridge of the Iland called Puente de Suaço , made their way round about the same Iland , and so by putting themselves ...
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Page 19 - ... him from death : whereat the Emperour was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads, and copper ; for they thought him as well of all occupations as themselves. For the King himselfe will make his owne robes, shooes, bowes, arrowes, pots ; plant, hunt, or doe any thing so well as the rest. They say he bore a pleasant shew, But sure his heart was sad. For who can pleasant be, and rest, That lives in feare and dread. And having life suspected, doth It still suspected lead.
Page 19 - Two days after, Powhatan having disguised himselfe in the most fearefullest manner he could, caused Captain Smith to be brought forth to a great house in the woods, and there upon a mat by the fire to be left alone.
Page 19 - Towell to dry them : having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the conclusion was, two great stones were brought before Powhatan : then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines, Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death...
Page 19 - Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death: whereat the Emperour was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her 18.
Page 7 - The re-issue of Purchas His Pilgrimes is in some ways a greater boon to scholars than the reprint of Hakluyt himself.
Page 10 - Counter-Rats." 113. CORY AT (Thomas). — Coryats Crudities hastily gobled up in five Moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia comonly called the Grisons country, Heluetia alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands ; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling Members of this Kingdome (this title is on an engraved frontispiece, by W.
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Page 10 - Pinnace, and in the same Pinnace put himselfe, and his honorable son Lord William Howard, aboord the Honor de la mer, & there remained in the fight till the battell was ended. The fight was very terrible on all sides and so continued doubtfull till about one or two of the clocke in the afternoone : about which time the Philip, whom in very truth, they had all most fancie unto, began to yeelde, and give over, her men that remained alive shifting for themselves as they were able, and swimming and running...