The British Admirals: With an Introductory View of the Naval History of England, Volume 1

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1833 - Admirals

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Page 1 - Was like a lake, or river bright and fair, A span of waters ; yet what power is there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power, and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing ! One decree Spake laws to them, and said that, by the soul Only, the nations shall be great and free.
Page 123 - Thus was tried, by the great assize of God's judgment in battle, the right of power between the English and Norman nations; a battle the most memorable of all others, and, however miserably lost, yet most nobly fought on the part of England.
Page 369 - ... shall alienate himself from his people, and refuse to govern by the laws and statutes of the realm, but will throw himself headlong into wild designs, and stubbornly exercise his own singular arbitrary will, — from that time it shall be lawful for his people, by their full and free assent and consent, to depose that King from his throne, and in his stead to establish some other of the royal race upon the same...
Page 35 - Danish routs, whom hunger starv*d at home, Like wolves pursuing prey, about the world did roam ; And stemming the rude stream dividing us from France, Into the spacious mouth of...
Page 134 - ... raised a considerable force in Normandy, and but for the adoption by the new king of a novel measure, and a confidence timely placed in the natives, England would have been again desolated by a foreign army. Rufus, on learning the preparations that were making for this armament, permitted his English subjects to fit out cruisers ; and these adventurers, who seem to have been the first that may be called
Page 289 - ... any false news or tales, whereby discord, or occasion of discord or slander, may grow between the King and his people, or the great men of the realm; and he that doth so, shall be taken and kept in prison, until he hath brought him into the Court, which was the first author of the tale.
Page 261 - Paris , but his wife, a courageous and beautiful woman, who is said to have had the courage of a man and the heart of a lion...
Page 137 - Rouen, saved themselves: by climbing the mast, and clinging to the top, they kept their heads above water. Fitzstephens rose after the vessel had sunk, and might have taken the same chance of preservation ; but calling to mind, after the first instinctive effort, that he had been the unhappy occasion of this great calamity, and dreading the reproaches, and perhaps the punishment that awaited him, he preferred present death as the least evil. The youth became exhausted during the night; and commending...
Page 250 - ... upon us. It is not unknown to you (we suppose), nor to other our liege subjects, who also have been partakers with us in the same, with what boisterous wars we have of late been tossed and shaken as in the swelling ocean. But, although the rising billows of the sea are wonderful, yet more wonderful is the Lord above, who, turning the tempest into a calm, hath in so great dangers so mercifully respected us. For whereas of late, upon urgent reason, we prepared to pass into Flanders, the lord Philip...
Page 136 - ... in the joy of his heart, too freely, and promised to overtake every ship that had sailed before them. Accordingly he hoisted all sail, and plied all oars. The evening had closed before they started, but it was bright moonlight ; the men exerted themselves under all the excitement of hilarity and pride...

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