 | 1803 - 818 trang
...armada coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form or' a crescent, and stretching the distance or seven miles from the extremity of one division to that of the other. "Effingham gave orders not to come to close light with the Spaniards, but to cannonade them at a distance,,... | |
 | 1904 - 518 trang
...the safety of the fleet. Effingbam had just time to get out of port, when he saw the Spanish armada coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form...the extremity of one division to that of the Other. " Effingbam gave orders not to come to close fight with the Spaniards, but to cannonade them at a distance,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 480 trang
...and Effingham had scarcely.time to get out of port, when he saw the armada advancing towards -him, in the form of a crescent, and stretching the distance of seven miles, from one extremity to the other. Effingham gave orders to cannonade them at a distance, and to wait the... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - 552 trang
...the safety of the fleet. Effingham had just time to get out of port, when he saw the Spanish Armada coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form...stretching the distance of seven miles from the extremity oi one division to that of the other. THE writers of that age raise their style by a pompous description... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 trang
...famous armada arrived-in the Channel, disposing itself in the form of a crescent, and stretching to the distance of seven miles from the extremity of .one division to that of the other. As it proceeded up the Channel, Eflingham with the English fleet, gave orders to avoid a close fight,... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 550 trang
...the safety of the fleet. Effingham had just time to get out of port, when he saw the Spanish Armada coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form...extremity of one division to that of the other. THE writers of that age raise their style by a pompous description of this spectacle : The most magnificent... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 510 trang
...fleet. Effingham, the English admiral, had just time to get out of port, when he saw the Spanish armada coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form...extremity of one division to that of the other. The writers of that age, says Hume, whose narrative we have partly followed, raise their style by a pompous... | |
 | John Adams - 1813 - 324 trang
...approach of the Spanish fleet by a Scotch pirate, had just time to get out of port, when he saw it coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form...extremity of one division to that of the other. The lofty N L. masts, the swelling sails, and the towering prows of the Spanish galleons, seem impossible to... | |
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Armada coming full sail towards him, disposed in the form of a crescent, and stretching the distance of seven miles from the extremity of one division to that of the other. 
