 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1912 - 574 דפים
...the breeze a very fair day, seeing that sea of which he had heard such golden reports, he besought Almighty God of his goodness to give him life and...leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." " Aje, noble captain " broke in John Oxenham, " And unless you did beat me from your company, I would... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1912 - 572 דפים
...the breeze a very fair day, seeing that sea of which he had heard such golden reports, he besought Almighty God of his goodness to give him life and...leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." " Aye, noble captain " broke in John Oxenham, " And unless you did beat me from your company, I would... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1912 - 572 דפים
...the breeze a very fair day, seeing that sea of which he had heard such golden reports, he besought Almighty God of his goodness to give him life and...leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." " Aye, noble captain " broke in John Oxenham, " And unless you did beat me from your company, I would... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1912 - 206 דפים
...Englishman, so far as we know, to see the Pacific. "He besought Almighty God," so the record goes on to say, "of his goodness to give him life, and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." Drake made his way to Panama, but by a mishap rather characteristic of our seamen—the noisy drunkenness... | |
 | Alice Minerva Atkinson - 1912 - 452 דפים
...Pacific. No Englishman had ever before beheld the Pacific, and as Drake looked out over it he prayed God to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship upon its waters. To add to his enthusiasm for this new venture he learned that on the western coast... | |
 | Frederick Treves - 1913 - 490 דפים
...eyes of England. Drake gazed his fill at the wondrous sheet of water, and then and tncic "besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and...leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." This prayer was answered and in five years' time Moving southwards the party of pirates and Indians... | |
 | Charles Loftus Grant Anderson - 1911 - 702 דפים
...first English commander to view the Pacific ocean. He was so transported by the sight that he "besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and...leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." This was the nth of February, 1573. "From that time forward," says Camden, "his mind was pricked on... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1914 - 578 דפים
...the breeze a very fair day, seeing that sea of which he had heard such golden reports, he besought Almighty God of his goodness to give him life and...leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." " Aye, noble captain " broke in John Oxenham, " And unless you did beat me from your company, I would... | |
 | Charles Loftus Grant Anderson - 1914 - 774 דפים
...first English commander to view the Pacific ocean. He was so transported by the sight that he "besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and...leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." This was the nth of February, 1573. "From that time forward," says Camden, "his mind was pricked on... | |
 | Zelia Nuttall - 1914 - 614 דפים
...whom he had especially informed how, after his first sight of the Pacific in 1573, he had "besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English skip in that sea." His prayer partook of the nature of a vow, for Camden states " from that time forward... | |
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he besought of Almighty God of his goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea, and then, calling up all the rest of our men, acquainted John Oxnam especially with this his petition and purpose, if it should please... 
