Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... received the visitors with courtesy , and exchanged spices with them freely . The four vessels sailed home- ward , taking possession of the island of St. Helena on their way back ; having been absent exactly thirty - one months . The ...
... received the visitors with courtesy , and exchanged spices with them freely . The four vessels sailed home- ward , taking possession of the island of St. Helena on their way back ; having been absent exactly thirty - one months . The ...
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... received him more coldly , though he lent him forty shillings to find himself in clothes . At that time the fleet was ordered to be got ready for the last expedition of Drake and Hawkins to the West Indies . The Defiance was sent into ...
... received him more coldly , though he lent him forty shillings to find himself in clothes . At that time the fleet was ordered to be got ready for the last expedition of Drake and Hawkins to the West Indies . The Defiance was sent into ...
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... received my greatest lights . " The lord admiral was often present at Baker's house . Pett was importuned to set sail with the ship when finished , but he preferred remaining at home . The principal reason , no doubt , that restrained ...
... received my greatest lights . " The lord admiral was often present at Baker's house . Pett was importuned to set sail with the ship when finished , but he preferred remaining at home . The principal reason , no doubt , that restrained ...
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... received from the court , then stationed at Greenwich . The lord high admiral desired to see him , and , after many civil com- pliments , he offered him the post of keeper of the plankyard at Chatham . Pett was only too glad to accept ...
... received from the court , then stationed at Greenwich . The lord high admiral desired to see him , and , after many civil com- pliments , he offered him the post of keeper of the plankyard at Chatham . Pett was only too glad to accept ...
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... received private instructions from the lord high admiral to have all the king's ships " put into comely readiness " for the reception of the King of Denmark , who was expected on a royal visit . " Where- in , " he says , " I strove ...
... received private instructions from the lord high admiral to have all the king's ships " put into comely readiness " for the reception of the King of Denmark , who was expected on a royal visit . " Where- in , " he says , " I strove ...
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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...