The Biographical Magazine: Containing Portraits of Eminent and Ingenious Persons of Every Age and Nation, with Their Lives and Characters, Tom 2E. Wilson., 1820 |
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... admiral of the new world . Being furnished with se- venteen ships , he again sailed ; and , in 1495 , discovered Jamaica and the Caribbee islands . In 1498 , making another voyage , he discovered Paria , the first place he had seen on ...
... admiral of the new world . Being furnished with se- venteen ships , he again sailed ; and , in 1495 , discovered Jamaica and the Caribbee islands . In 1498 , making another voyage , he discovered Paria , the first place he had seen on ...
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... admiral of a fleet to the Levant , and obtained great honour by his brave conduct at Algiers , in rescuing many slaves , and by his attacking the Venetian fleet in the bay of Scanderoon . In 1638 , he commenced a correspondence with ...
... admiral of a fleet to the Levant , and obtained great honour by his brave conduct at Algiers , in rescuing many slaves , and by his attacking the Venetian fleet in the bay of Scanderoon . In 1638 , he commenced a correspondence with ...
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... Admiral Drake was sent with an expedition of twenty - one sail and 2000 land forces to the West Indies . The success of this voyage exceeded the most san- guine expectation , though the emoluments were small , Drake's instructions being ...
... Admiral Drake was sent with an expedition of twenty - one sail and 2000 land forces to the West Indies . The success of this voyage exceeded the most san- guine expectation , though the emoluments were small , Drake's instructions being ...
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... admiral of Eng- land . In 1588 , the year of the Spanish armada , the Queen , knowing his great abili- ties , gave him the command of her whole fleet , with which he entirely dispersed and des- troyed that formidable equipment , for ...
... admiral of Eng- land . In 1588 , the year of the Spanish armada , the Queen , knowing his great abili- ties , gave him the command of her whole fleet , with which he entirely dispersed and des- troyed that formidable equipment , for ...
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... she gave herself little or no con- cern about the captive princess , till Babington's conspiracy was detected in the year 1586 . LORD HOWE . THIS gallant admiral was born in the. THOMAS HOWARD , THIRD DUKE OF NORFOLK . 14 Holloculp.
... she gave herself little or no con- cern about the captive princess , till Babington's conspiracy was detected in the year 1586 . LORD HOWE . THIS gallant admiral was born in the. THOMAS HOWARD , THIRD DUKE OF NORFOLK . 14 Holloculp.
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Strona 16 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
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Strona 15 - ... and agitated him, and when he returned to college, he was so completely ill, that no power of medicine could save him. His mind was worn out, and it was the opinion of his medical attendants, that if he had recovered, his intellect would have been affected.
Strona 7 - These busy scenes were blended with, and terminated by meditation and philosophic inquiries. Strip each period of its excesses and errors, and it will not be easy to trace out, or dispose the life of a man of quality into a succession of employments which would better become him. Valour and military activity in youth, business of state in the middle age, contemplation and labour for the information of posterity in the calmer scenes of closing life.