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... voyage of 1498 . The Cabots were Vene- tians . Zuan Caboto was the father , a man of reputation , an experienced navi- gator and cartographer . He came to England some- time before 1494 ; for , it was about that time he began those ...
... voyage of 1498 . The Cabots were Vene- tians . Zuan Caboto was the father , a man of reputation , an experienced navi- gator and cartographer . He came to England some- time before 1494 ; for , it was about that time he began those ...
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... voyage was made in 1497 , and did not extend so far south as the Bay of Maine , nor did it accomplish much more than to locate a large body of land in the Western Hemisphere ; yet it was notable in one respect , for it was on this first ...
... voyage was made in 1497 , and did not extend so far south as the Bay of Maine , nor did it accomplish much more than to locate a large body of land in the Western Hemisphere ; yet it was notable in one respect , for it was on this first ...
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Herbert Milton Sylvester. of his voyages to the New World , but , unfortunately , no trace of them has ever been available . They , like Cabot himself , have become buried under the débris of centuries . In lieu of the personal ...
Herbert Milton Sylvester. of his voyages to the New World , but , unfortunately , no trace of them has ever been available . They , like Cabot himself , have become buried under the débris of centuries . In lieu of the personal ...
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... voyages , this preliminary visit to the New World was made as early as 1494 , but it was fully a year later that old John Cabot went to the king with his scheme for the dis- covery of the northwestern water - way to Cathay . Henry , at ...
... voyages , this preliminary visit to the New World was made as early as 1494 , but it was fully a year later that old John Cabot went to the king with his scheme for the dis- covery of the northwestern water - way to Cathay . Henry , at ...
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... voyage , they set sail from Bristol in the early part of 1497 , with four vessels , one of which was the Matthew , whose keel was the first to grate on the sands of the first landfall , possibly on the Newfoundland coast , as designated ...
... voyage , they set sail from Bristol in the early part of 1497 , with four vessels , one of which was the Matthew , whose keel was the first to grate on the sands of the first landfall , possibly on the Newfoundland coast , as designated ...
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Page 240 - RIDE. OF all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme, — On Apuleius's Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human back, Islam's prophet on Al-Borak, — The strangest ride that ever was sped...
Page 220 - Here Lies the Body of Mr XEHEMIAH ROY CE Who Departed This Life Feb (?)— AD 1791 In the both Year of His Age Behold and see, as you pass by As you are now, so once was I. As I am now so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 36 - ... to sail to all parts, countries, and seas of the east, of the west, and of the north...
Page 12 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 37 - Cabot, and he is styled the great admiral. Vast honour is paid him; he dresses in silk, and these English run after him like mad people, so that he can enlist as many of them as he pleases, and a number of our own rogues besides.
Page 203 - They rested there, escaped awhile From cares that wear the life away, To eat the lotus of the Nile And drink the poppies of Cathay...
Page 276 - Cotton Mather came galloping down All the way to Newbury town, With his eyes agog and his ears set wide, And his marvellous inkhorn at his side ; Stirring the while in the shallow pool Of his brains for the lore he learned at school...
Page 297 - When the barley-harvest is ripe and shorn, And the dry husks fall from the standing corn; As long as Nature shall not grow old, Nor drop her work from her doting hold...
Page 169 - Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat and slips of yew Silver'd in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab : Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,* For the ingredients of our cauldron.