Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... trading people ; and as soon as the service for which the vessels so hired was performed they were dismissed . When Henry VIII . ascended the throne , in 1509 , he directed his attention to the state of the navy . Al- though the insular ...
... trading people ; and as soon as the service for which the vessels so hired was performed they were dismissed . When Henry VIII . ascended the throne , in 1509 , he directed his attention to the state of the navy . Al- though the insular ...
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... trade with the Neth- erlands in 1564 amounted to twelve millions of ducats , five millions of which was for English cloth alone . The religious persecutions of Philip II . of Spain and of Charles IX . of France shortly supplied England ...
... trade with the Neth- erlands in 1564 amounted to twelve millions of ducats , five millions of which was for English cloth alone . The religious persecutions of Philip II . of Spain and of Charles IX . of France shortly supplied England ...
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... trade with the northern parts of Russia . Two years later , in 1556 , Stephen Burroughs sailed with one small ship , which entered the Kara Sea ; but he was compelled by frost and ice to return to England . The strait which he entered ...
... trade with the northern parts of Russia . Two years later , in 1556 , Stephen Burroughs sailed with one small ship , which entered the Kara Sea ; but he was compelled by frost and ice to return to England . The strait which he entered ...
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... trade , his imagination was inflamed by the exploits of his protector , Hawkins , in the New World , and he joined him in his last un- fortunate adventure on the Spanish Main . He was not , however , discouraged by his first misfortune ...
... trade , his imagination was inflamed by the exploits of his protector , Hawkins , in the New World , and he joined him in his last un- fortunate adventure on the Spanish Main . He was not , however , discouraged by his first misfortune ...
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... trade of the world , than Britain . It was natural , therefore , that the Dutch republic should take an interest in the northwest passage ; and the Dutch sailors , by their enterprise and bravery , were among the first to point the way ...
... trade of the world , than Britain . It was natural , therefore , that the Dutch republic should take an interest in the northwest passage ; and the Dutch sailors , by their enterprise and bravery , were among the first to point the way ...
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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...