Lives of the Warriors who Have Commanded Fleets and Armies Before the Enemy: Warriors of the Seventeenth Century, 3. cilt,2. sayıJ. Murray, 1869 |
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Sayfa 416 - Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Sayfa 327 - He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had been thought ever very formidable, and were discovered by him to make a noise only, and to fright those who could rarely be hurt by them.
Sayfa 355 - The whole action," says Clarendon, *' was so incredible, that all men, who knew the place, wondered that any sober man, with what courage soever endowed, would ever have undertaken it, and they could hardly persuade themselves to believe what they had done : while the Spaniards comforted themselves with the belief, that they were devils and not men who had destroyed them in such a manner.
Sayfa 481 - Pen was struck with the order ; but did not go to argue the matter with the duke himself, as he ought to have done, but obeyed it. When the duke had slept, he, upon his waking, went out on the quarter-deck, and seemed amazed to see the sails slackened, and that thereby all hope of overtaking the Dutch was lost.
Sayfa 10 - I told you," says the captain sternly, "they were salt provisions for my own use. Caesar, throw them down upon the table ; and, gentlemen, if you like them, they are at your service." The Spaniards were astounded at the sight of the Moors...
Sayfa 481 - Pen, who commanded under the duke, happened to say that they must prepare for hotter work in the next engagement. He knew well the courage of the Dutch was never so high, as when they were desperate. The Earl of Montague...
Sayfa 345 - I am here before my sovereigns ; I am free to speak : and I must say that the English are at present masters both of us and of the seas."1 1 Old Parliamentary History, vol.