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Page 86
... expected nothing less than half the revenue of the Indies ; nor is it easy to imagine their mortification and perplexity when they found only two mules laden with silver , the rest having no other burthen than provisions . The driver ...
... expected nothing less than half the revenue of the Indies ; nor is it easy to imagine their mortification and perplexity when they found only two mules laden with silver , the rest having no other burthen than provisions . The driver ...
Page 117
... expected from the natives so incensed , but the most cruel and lingering death ? But why he should not rather have requested to be sent to Eng- land , it is not easy to conceive . In so long a voyage he might have found a thousand ...
... expected from the natives so incensed , but the most cruel and lingering death ? But why he should not rather have requested to be sent to Eng- land , it is not easy to conceive . In so long a voyage he might have found a thousand ...
Page 125
... expected here ; but that southward , in a place to which he offered to be his pilot , there was great plenty . This proposal was accepted , and on the 5th of December , under the direction of the good - natured Indian , they came to ...
... expected here ; but that southward , in a place to which he offered to be his pilot , there was great plenty . This proposal was accepted , and on the 5th of December , under the direction of the good - natured Indian , they came to ...
Page 126
... expected in the boat . To this end , on the 19th of December , they tered a bay near Cippo , a town inhabited by Spani- ards , who , discovering them , immediately issued out , to the number of an hundred horsemen , with about two ...
... expected in the boat . To this end , on the 19th of December , they tered a bay near Cippo , a town inhabited by Spani- ards , who , discovering them , immediately issued out , to the number of an hundred horsemen , with about two ...
Page 139
... expected , his brother came aboard , to request of Drake that he would come to the castle , proposing to stay himself as a hostage for his return . Drake refused to go , but sent some gentlemen , detaining the king's bro- ther in the ...
... expected , his brother came aboard , to request of Drake that he would come to the castle , proposing to stay himself as a hostage for his return . Drake refused to go , but sent some gentlemen , detaining the king's bro- ther in the ...
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Page 423 - At night they set fire to the Fleet, and to the King's Bench, and I know not how many other places ; and one might see the glare of conflagration fill the sky from many parts. The sight was dreadful. Some people were threatened : Mr. Strahan advised me to take care of myself. — Such a time of terrour you have been happy in not seeing.
Page 276 - The reciprocal civility. of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
Page 332 - I cannot forbear to mention, that neither reason nor revelation denies you to hope, that you may increase her happiness by obeying her precepts ; and that she may, in her present state, look with pleasure upon every act of virtue to which her instructions or example have contributed.
Page 368 - The return of my birth-day, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Page 181 - That the strength of his understanding, the accuracy of his discernment, and the ardour of his Curiosity, might have been remarked from his infancy, by a diligent observer, there is no reason to doubt. For, there is no instance of any man, whose history has been minutely related, that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour.
Page 39 - So far was this man from being made impious by philosophy, or vain by knowledge or by virtue, that he ascribed all his abilities to the bounty, and all his goodness to the grace of God. May his example extend its influence to his admirers and followers' May those who study his writings imitate his life ! and those who endeavour after his knowledge aspire likewise to his piety...
Page 438 - When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering herself in England, the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey; and when they came to the irremeable...
Page 445 - ALMIGHTY God, merciful Father, in whose hands are life and death, sanctify unto me the sorrow which I now feel. Forgive me whatever I have done unkindly to my mother, and whatever I have omitted to do kindly. Make me to remember her good precepts and good example, and to reform my life according to thy holy word, that I may lose no more opportunities of good.
Page 283 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progrcssional, and otherwise made in vain...
Page 276 - There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason.