The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume 4Esther Singleton P. F. Collier, 1916 |
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Página 1326 - Neversink, described by him as a "very good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see.
Página 1174 - The devotion towards him had quite effaced in that place the adoration of the Deity ; nay, even that of the Virgin. At God's altar, for instance, there were offered in one year three pounds two shillings and sixpence ; at the Virgin's, sixty-three pounds five shillings and sixpence ; at St.
Página 1307 - ... man of a reasonable tall personage, who delivered him a letter, charging him to put it in my lord his master's hands ; which my lord no sooner received, but that, having broken it up, and perceiving the same to be of an unknown and somewhat unlegible hand, and without either date or superscription, did call one of his men unto him, for helping him to read it.
Página 1260 - Corunna, bearing ten thousand men stricken with pestilence and death. Of the rest some were sunk, some dashed to pieces against the Irish cliffs. The wreckers of the Orkneys and the Faroes, the clansmen of the Scottish Isles, the kernes of Donegal and Galway, all had their part in the work of murder and robbery.
Página 1260 - I doubt not but ere it be long so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia, as he shall wish himself at Saint Marie Port among his orange trees.
Página 1307 - ... they shall receyve a terrible blowe this parleament and yet they shall not seie who hurts them...
Página 1176 - He was so profuse in these liberalities, that he is said to have given a woman the whole revenue of a convent, as a reward for making a...
Página 1341 - ... they were struck with the extensive genius of the man, who, being educated amid naval and military enterprises, had surpassed, in the pursuits of literature, even those of the most recluse and sedentary lives; and they admired his unbroken magnanimity, which, at his age, and under his circumstances, could engage him to undertake and execute so great a work as his History of the World.
Página 1319 - Percy's house because we were willing to have all our danger in one place. We wrought also another fortnight in the mine against the stone wall, which was very hard to beat through...
Página 1132 - He is exceeding fair ; and as well proportioned in every part as is possible. When he learned that the King of France wore a beard, he allowed his also to grow ; which being somewhat red, has at present the appearance of being of gold. He is an excellent musician and composer; an admirable horseman and wrestler. He possesses a good knowledge of the French, Latin, and Spanish languages ; and is very devout.