American Biography, Брой 161Harper & Brothers, 1846 |
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... court of Spain ; and , having been furnished with five ships , sailed from Seville Aug. 10 , 1519. He was slain April 20 , 1520 , a man of great energy , judgment , and resolution . - Robertson . - H . ] 1524 . the strait which bears ...
... court of Spain ; and , having been furnished with five ships , sailed from Seville Aug. 10 , 1519. He was slain April 20 , 1520 , a man of great energy , judgment , and resolution . - Robertson . - H . ] 1524 . the strait which bears ...
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... COURT who intended a settlement in America . They discovered and began plantations at Port Royal , St. John's , and St. Croix , in the Bay of Fundy . POUTRINCOURT introduced two Jesuits into Port Royal ; but some controversy arising ...
... COURT who intended a settlement in America . They discovered and began plantations at Port Royal , St. John's , and St. Croix , in the Bay of Fundy . POUTRINCOURT introduced two Jesuits into Port Royal ; but some controversy arising ...
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... court was busied in mil- itary preparations and action . None had leisure to listen to the speculations of an obscure adventurer ; and he who could open a new world to him who would befriend him , was fain to take his place among ...
... court was busied in mil- itary preparations and action . None had leisure to listen to the speculations of an obscure adventurer ; and he who could open a new world to him who would befriend him , was fain to take his place among ...
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... court , meanwhile , was occupied with campaigns , and Co- lumbus , still sanguine , and yet waiting for a formal decision , accompanied its movements . Day after day , and year after year , he waited in vain . Conferences of the learned ...
... court , meanwhile , was occupied with campaigns , and Co- lumbus , still sanguine , and yet waiting for a formal decision , accompanied its movements . Day after day , and year after year , he waited in vain . Conferences of the learned ...
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... court , when she offered to pawn her jewels to defray the expense of the equipment , amounting to no more than 2500 crowns ; which sum was advanced by Santangel , and the queen's jewels were saved . Thus , to the generous decision of a ...
... court , when she offered to pawn her jewels to defray the expense of the equipment , amounting to no more than 2500 crowns ; which sum was advanced by Santangel , and the queen's jewels were saved . Thus , to the generous decision of a ...
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Страница 368 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Страница 323 - I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all.
Страница 160 - ... were rather high, his eyes light gray, and apt to enkindle ; his whole countenance had an air of authority. His hair, in his youthful days, was of a light color ; but care and trouble, according to Las Casas, soon turned it gray, and at thirty years of age it was quite white.
Страница 323 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the queen goes away so far off, whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison, all alone.
Страница 321 - Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that temple where the vestal flame Was wont to burn; and passing by that way To see that buried dust of living fame, Whose tomb fair Love and fairer Virtue kept, All suddenly I saw the...
Страница 36 - Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. "They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir : they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars ; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
Страница 328 - ... short and green, and in divers parts groves of trees by themselves, as if they had been by all the art and labour in the world so made of purpose; and still as we rowed, the deer came down feeding by the water's side as if they had been used to a keeper's call.
Страница 356 - As for me, I am no more yours, nor you mine. Death hath cut us asunder, and God hath divided me from the world, and you from me.
Страница 355 - You shall receive, my dear wife, my last words, in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not with my...
Страница 356 - Love God, and begin betimes to repose yourself on him ; and therein shall you find true and lasting riches, and endless comfort. For the rest, when you have travailed, and wearied your thoughts over all sorts of worldly cogitation, you shall but sit down by sorrow in the end.