Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... turned , the water entered , and sodainly she sanke . " What was to be done ? There were no English en- gineers or workmen who could raise the ship . Ac- cordingly , Henry VIII . sent to Venice for assistance , and when the men arrived ...
... turned , the water entered , and sodainly she sanke . " What was to be done ? There were no English en- gineers or workmen who could raise the ship . Ac- cordingly , Henry VIII . sent to Venice for assistance , and when the men arrived ...
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... not yet ! " The English tacked , re- turned , fired again , riddled the Spaniards , and shot away in the eye of the wind . To the astonishment of the Spanish admiral , the English ships approached him or left him just as they chose . "
... not yet ! " The English tacked , re- turned , fired again , riddled the Spaniards , and shot away in the eye of the wind . To the astonishment of the Spanish admiral , the English ships approached him or left him just as they chose . "
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... turning from the Levant , attacked twelve Spanish gal- leons , and , after six hours ' contest , put them to flight with great loss . In the following year three mer- chant ships set sail for the East Indies , and in the course of their ...
... turning from the Levant , attacked twelve Spanish gal- leons , and , after six hours ' contest , put them to flight with great loss . In the following year three mer- chant ships set sail for the East Indies , and in the course of their ...
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... turned out , and forever disgraced . ' But the lords appointed by the king now interfered between Pett and his adversaries . They first inspect- ed the ship , and made a diligent survey of the form and manner of the work and the ...
... turned out , and forever disgraced . ' But the lords appointed by the king now interfered between Pett and his adversaries . They first inspect- ed the ship , and made a diligent survey of the form and manner of the work and the ...
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... on account . The king , through the interposition of the lord admiral , al- * Pett says she was to be five hundred tons , but when he turned her out her burden was rated at seven hundred tons . lowed Pett to lay her keel on the galley dock.
... on account . The king , through the interposition of the lord admiral , al- * Pett says she was to be five hundred tons , but when he turned her out her burden was rated at seven hundred tons . lowed Pett to lay her keel on the galley dock.
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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...
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