Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... began the deep - sea her- ring fishery ; and yet these were the most enterprising among the English fishermen . English commerce also had very slender beginnings . At the commencement of the fifteenth century England was of very little ...
... began the deep - sea her- ring fishery ; and yet these were the most enterprising among the English fishermen . English commerce also had very slender beginnings . At the commencement of the fifteenth century England was of very little ...
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... began in the reign of Henry VII . Only six or seven vessels then belonged to the king , the largest being the Grace de Dieu , of comparatively small tonnage . The custom then was to hire ships from the Venetians , the Genoese , the ...
... began in the reign of Henry VII . Only six or seven vessels then belonged to the king , the largest being the Grace de Dieu , of comparatively small tonnage . The custom then was to hire ships from the Venetians , the Genoese , the ...
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... began in the reign of Elizabeth . England had then no colo- nies , no foreign possessions whatever . The first of her extensive colonial possessions was established in this reign . " Ships , colonies , and commerce " began to be the ...
... began in the reign of Elizabeth . England had then no colo- nies , no foreign possessions whatever . The first of her extensive colonial possessions was established in this reign . " Ships , colonies , and commerce " began to be the ...
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... Elizabeth that great maritime adventures began to be made . Navi- gators were not so venturous as they afterwards be- came . Without proper methods of navigation , they The Great Navigators . 15 were apt to be carried 14 Phineas Pett .
... Elizabeth that great maritime adventures began to be made . Navi- gators were not so venturous as they afterwards be- came . Without proper methods of navigation , they The Great Navigators . 15 were apt to be carried 14 Phineas Pett .
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... began , for the English people had already begun to swarm . In 1578 , Sir Humphrey Gil- bert planted Newfoundland for the queen . In 1584 , Sir Walter Raleigh planted the first settlement in Virginia . Nor was the northwest passage ...
... began , for the English people had already begun to swarm . In 1578 , Sir Humphrey Gil- bert planted Newfoundland for the queen . In 1584 , Sir Walter Raleigh planted the first settlement in Virginia . Nor was the northwest passage ...
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Página 205 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
Página 98 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace yet want her Peers...