A History of Devonshire: With Sketches of Its Leading Worthies

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Elliot Stock, 1895 - 347 trang
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Trang 176 - I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after.
Trang 273 - He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his hand ; " Do not fear ! Heaven is as near...
Trang 214 - Warwick and others, to the number of forty noblemen, knights and gentlemen, by the name 'of the Council established at Plymouth in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling and governing of New England in America...
Trang 215 - Having thus winnowed their numbers, the little band, not of resolute men only, but wives, some far gone in pregnancy, children, infants, a floating village of one hundred and two souls, went on board the single ship, which was hired only to convey them across the Atlantic ; and on the sixth day of September, 1620, thirteen years after the first colonization of Virginia, two months before the concession of the grand charter of Plymouth, without any warrant from the sovereign of England, without any...
Trang 41 - Essex was surprised returning from the island voyage, says a hand or eye By Hilliard drawn, is worth a history By a worse painter made...
Trang 270 - Ther nas noon swich from Hulle to Cartage. Hardy he was, and wys to undertake; With many a tempest hadde his berd been shake. He knew wel alle the havenes, as they were, From Gootlond to the cape of Finistere, And every cryke in Britayne and in Spayne; His barge y-cleped was the Maudelayne.
Trang 57 - ... they had been legally extinct, were revived by the patents of succeeding princes. But there still survived a lineal descendant of Hugh, the first earl of Devon, a younger branch of the Courtenays, who have been seated at Powderham Castle above four hundred years from the reign of Edward the Third to the present hour.
Trang 288 - Deep in a dump John Ford alone was got, "With folded arms and melancholy hat.
Trang 211 - Swallow, which had been built by King Henry, Lord Howard offered to sail to Rio Janeiro in the wildest storm that could blow. A few words in detail may be spared to the constitution of the fleet which was about to accomplish so splendid a service.
Trang 287 - To which, Mr. Lyde answering, said, ' It is best to make an end of prayers, for it were better to die here, than in another place.' But they, looking about them, and seeing the church so terribly rent and torn, durst not proceed in their publick devotions, but went forth of the church. And as all this was done within the church, and unto the church, so there were other accidents without the church, of which I will give you a.

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