 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1834 - 378 pages
...toward them as there was indeed. " If these men,'' says the writer, " had come down in the evening, they had done us great displeasure, for that we were...escaped without danger: his name be praised for it." t These adventurers resembled the Spaniards as much in their sense of religion as in their want of... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1863 - 508 pages
...shore was no longer safe, ' the natives having laid a plan to entrap and kill them.' ' God however, who worketh all things for the best, would not have it so, and by Him they escaped danger, His name be praised.' The captain decided that he had done enough, and headed... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1863 - 508 pages
...shore was no longer safe, ' the natives having laid a plan to entrap and kill them.' ' God however, who worketh all things for the best, would not have it so, and by Him they escaped danger, His name be praised.' The captain decided that he had done enough, and headed... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1868 - 336 pages
...shore in a strange place in search of water. " But," says the narrator, pious after his own fashion, " God, who worketh all things for the best, would not...escaped without danger — His name be praised for it !" At length, having collected negroes enough, Hawkins started for the West Indies on the 29th of January.... | |
 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - Mogul Empire - 1878 - 812 pages
...these men had come downe in the euening, they had done vs great displeasure, for that we were a shoare filling water : but God, who worketh all things for the best, would not haue it so, and by him wee escaped without danger, his name bee praysed for it. Febrnarie. The 29.... | |
 | 1883 - 994 pages
...narrowly escaped being captured himself, and meeting the fate he richly deserved, his historian says, "God, who worketh all things for the best, would not have it so, and by Him wee escaped without danger; His name be praysed for it." When the little fleet is becalmed, and suffers... | |
 | Justin Winsor - America - 1884 - 620 pages
...Pudding. native negroes, as they well deserved to be. Hawkins narrates the adventure with this comment: " God, who worketh all things for the best, would not...escaped without danger. His name be praised for it ! " And again, when they were nearly starved, becalmed in mid-ocean : " Almighty God, who never suffereth... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1885 - 492 pages
...narrowly escaped being captured himself, and meeting the fate he richly deserved, his historian says, " God, who worketh all things for the best, would not have it so, and by Him wee escaped without danger; His name be praysed for it." When the little fleet is becalmed, and suffers... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1886 - 504 pages
...narrowly escaped being captured himself, and meeting the fate he richly deserved, his historian says, " God, who worketh all things for the best, would not have it so, and by Him wee escaped without danger; His name be praysed for it." When the little fleet is becalmed, and suffers... | |
 | Mary Wise Savery Hawkins - Armada, 1588 - 1888 - 252 pages
...we saw such a monstrous fire, made by the watering place. If these men had come down in the evening, they had done us great displeasure, for that we were on shore filling water." Sailing towards the West Indies they were becalmed for twenty-one days, at intervals having contrary... | |
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God, who worketh all things for the best, would not have it so, and by Him we escaped without danger. His name be praised for it ! The 29. 
