It was a period of sudden emancipation of thought, and of immense fertility and originality. The po...
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not yet!" The English tacked, returned, fired again, riddled the Spaniards, and shot away in the ey...
"bred up from a child to that profession." He was allowed 2L. 6s. 8d. per annum, with which he had ...
there very probably was, a great deal of jobbery going on in the dockyards. It was difficult, under...
October, 1620. On the 30th, Pett sailed with the fleet, and after driving the pirates out of the Ch...
[16] This poem is now very rare. It is not in the British Museum. [17] There are three copies exta...
cargo of linseed and iron castings, and went up the Seine to Paris. It was some time, however, befo...
1833, brought by Sir John Sinclair under the consideration of the Board of Admiralty; but the repor...
undertake anything novel, untried, and contrary to routine. There was the usual shaking of the head...
able to persist for ever in fixed and inexorable justice of distribution; he will sometimes indulge...
attrition conform their surfaces to each other. "I believe it will be found that those who marry la...
entered; and the Princess prepared for her favourite a long narrative of dark labyrinths and costly...
Nekayah thought this a reasonable demand, and made the promise to her brother, who had been obliged...
time when they saw me treated with respect, and gave themselves up to the incidental alleviations o...
CHAPTER XLI - THE ASTRONOMER DISCOVERS THE CAUSE OF HIS UNEASINESS. "AT last the time came when the...