Whereupon the captain, weighing their unconscionable request, wrote to them a letter, that they dealt too rigorously with him, to go about to cut his throat in the price of his commodities, which were so reasonably rated as they could not by a great deal... London Society - Страница 532под редакцията на - 1864Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| John Aikin - 1807 - 696 страници
...a price for them ; " whereupon, weighing their unconscionable proposal, he wrote to them a letter, that they dealt too rigorously with him to go about...to cut his throat in the price of his commodities; but seeing they had sent him this to his supper, he would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast."... | |
| John Aikin - 1807 - 706 страници
...small a price for them; " whereupou, weighing their unconscionable proposal, he wrote to them a letter, that they dealt too rigorously with him to go about...to cut his throat in the price of his commodities; but seeing they had tent him this to his supper, he would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast."... | |
| 1825 - 844 страници
...small a price for them : " whereupon weighing their unconscionable proposal, he wrote them a letter, that they dealt too rigorously with him to go about...to cut his throat in the price of his commodities ; but seeing they had sent him this for his supper, he would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast."... | |
| Robert Southey - 1834 - 378 страници
...licence which he asked, but offered a price less by one half than what he had obtained at Borburata. " Whereupon the captain, weighing their unconscionable...would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast." * Having given this hint that he intended to settle the price of his commodities in his own way, Hawkins... | |
| Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1868 - 336 страници
...fair value for the remainder. Hawkins did not think so. "Weighing their unconscionable request, he wrote to them a letter, saying that they dealt too...would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast." The breakfast consisted of a volley of ordnance, followed by the landing of a hundred Englishmen, who,... | |
| Frederick Whymper - 1883 - 712 страници
...offered half the prices which he had obtained at Borburata, whereupon he told them, insultingly, that "seeing they had sent him this to his supper, he would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast."* Accordingly, early next day he fired off a culverin, and prepared to land with 100, men, "having light... | |
| Richard Hakluyt - 1890 - 272 страници
...them a letter, that they dealt too rigorously the Treasurer with him, to go about to cut his throte in the price of his commodities, which were so reasonably rated, as they could not by a great deale haue the like at any other mans handes. But seeing they had sent him this to his supper, hee... | |
| Richard Hakluyt - 1890 - 672 страници
...too rigorously the Treasurer with him, to go about to cut his throte in the price of of u'°ife Ia his commodities, which were so reasonably rated, as they could not by a great deale haue the like at any other mans handes. But seeing they had sent him this to his supper, hee... | |
| Richard Hakluyt - 1893 - 344 страници
...otherwise with him. Whereupon the captain, weighing their unconscionable request, wrote to them a letter, that they dealt too rigorously with him, to go about...would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast. And therefore in the morning, being the 21. of May, he shot off a whole culverin to summon the town,... | |
| Richard Hakluyt - 1893 - 350 страници
...otherwise with him. Whereupon the captain, weighing their unconscionable request, wrote to them a letter, that they dealt too rigorously with him, to go about...at any other man's hands. But seeing they had sent hrm this to his supper, he would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast. And therefore in the... | |
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