The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea Or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeeres, Volume 1James MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - Discoveries in geography |
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alia aliis aliquis apud autem Baatu Bathy Bulgaria Chingis Christians Comanians contra countrey cùm curia Cuyne Cyngis dayes debent Domini duke ejus Emperour enim eorum equi equos erant erat etiam exercitus facere faciunt farre foresaid Frier fuerunt fuit habent hæc hath homines hominibus horses Howbeit Hungaria illa illam illis illos illud Imperatoris inter ipse ipsi Islands journey juxta king king of Norway land literas lord magna magnum maner marchants mare Mariners meridiem mihi Moal modo modum Mongals multum Nestorian Nestorini nisi nobis Olavus omnes omnia Pascatir ponunt possunt postea prædicta quæ quam quas quatuor quia quibus quidam quod reversi Russia Saracens Sartach sayd semper Ships sibi sicut sive Soldaia sonne suam sunt super superius tamen Tanais Tartarorum Tartars terra terræ thereof travailed Tunc unam unto unum usque verò yeere yere
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Page xx - ... in this most famous and peerless government of her most excellent Majesty, her subjects, through the special assistance and blessing of God, in searching the most opposite corners and quarters of the world, and to speak plainly, in compassing the vast globe of the earth more than once, have excelled all the nations and people of the earth.
Page xviii - Psalme, directed mee to the 23 & 24 verses, where I read, that they which go downe to the sea in ships, and occupy by the great waters, they see the works of the Lord, and his woonders in the deepe, &c. Which words of the Prophet together with my cousins discourse (things of high and rare delight to my yong nature) tooke in me so deepe an impression, that I constantly resolved, if ever I were preferred to the University, where better time, and more convenient place might be ministred for these studies,...
Page xviii - I both heard in speech, and read in books other nations miraculously extolled for their discoveries and notable enterprises by sea, but the English of all others, for their sluggish security and continual neglect of the like attempts especially in so long and happy a time of peace, either ignominiously reported or exceedingly condemned...
Page xxxix - For the bringing of which into this homely and roughhewn shape which here thou seest, what restlesse nights, what painefull dayes, what heat, what cold, I have endured ; how many long and changeable journeys I have travailed ; how many famous libraries I have searched into...
Page xvii - I do remember that being a youth, and one of her Majesties scholars at Westminster that fruitfull nurserie, it was my happe to visit the chamber of M. Richard Hakluyt my cosin, a Gentleman of the Middle Temple, well knowen unto you, at a time when I found lying open upon his boord certeine bookes...
Page xx - For which of the kings of this land before Her Majesty had their banners ever seen in the Caspian sea? which of them hath ever dealt with the Emperor of Persia, as her Majesty hath done, and obtained for her merchants large and loving privileges?
Page xlii - But besides the foresaid uncertaintie, into what dangers and difficulties they plunged themselves, Animus meminisse horret, I tremble to recount. For first they were to expose themselves unto the rigour of the sterne and uncouth...
Page xii - Most villanously; like a pedant that keeps a school i' the church. I have dogged him, like his murderer. He does obey every point of the letter that I dropped to betray him: he does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies: you have not seen such a thing as 'tis.
Page xvii - ... better distribution, into more: he pointed with his wand to all the knowen Seas, Gulfs, Bayes, Straights, Capes, Rivers, Empires, Kingdomes, Dukedomes, and Territories of ech part, with declaration also of their special! commodities, & particular wants, which by the benefit of traffike, & entercourse of merchants, are plentifully supplied.
Page xvii - From the Mappe he brought me to the Bible, and turning to the 107 Psalme, directed mee to the 23 & 24 verses, where I read, that they which go downe to the sea in ships, and occupy by the great waters, they see the works of the Lord, and his woonders in the deepe, &c.