 | Frederick Treves - 1920 - 490 דפים
...eyes of England. Drake gazed his fill at the wondrous sheet of water, and then and there " 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... | |
 | Frederick Treves - 1920 - 492 דפים
...eyes of England. Drake gazed his fill at the wondrous sheet of water, and then and there " 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... | |
 | Walter James Harte - 1920 - 74 דפים
...some thirty miles to the south, gazed for the first time on the waters of the Pacific, and prayed God to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea. After that he marched down the southern slopes of the range towards Panama. Now the Spaniards always... | |
 | Charles Strachan Sanders Higham - 1921 - 292 דפים
...and when in 1573 he caught sight of the Pacific from the heights of Panama he knelt and prayed God " to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship upon that sea." The chance came a few years later : setting sail from Plymouth in 1577, he reached... | |
 | Lilian Elwyn Elliott Joyce - 1922 - 418 דפים
...a hill on the Isthmus of Panama during his famous raid upon Nombre de Dios in 1572, Drake "besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and...leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." The Devonshire sailor undoubtedly urged repeatedly in England, after that time, that reprisals for... | |
 | Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - 1924 - 248 דפים
...point of the dividing ridge from whence he gazed upon the vast waters of the South Seas, and " besought God of His goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." Returning to England he arrived in Plymouth on Sunday, August 9th, 1573, during sermon time, when the... | |
 | Marguerite Dickson - 1915 - 184 דפים
...was born in his mind a great resolve, and he prayed "that Almighty God of his great goodness would give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship upon that sea." At last the prows of the vessels were turned toward England, and on a midsummer Sunday... | |
 | Cameron Rogers - 1927 - 314 דפים
...quests for precious stones was washed by a wave of beauty from his mind. Pedro hearing, Drake prayed to Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and...sail once in an English ship in that sea. And then he called up to him Oxenham, who was standing, head tilted far back, below him and told him of his... | |
 | Charles Edward Chapman - 1921 - 566 דפים
...for the first time, the waters of the Pacific. As he told his old comrade, John Oxenham, he "besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and...leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." This wish developed to the proportions of a vow, for from that time forward Drake was resolved to find... | |
 | Sir Julian Stafford Corbett - 1928 - 232 דפים
...overflowing — so Moses gazed upon the promised land — and like a good crusader he humbly besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea. So he descended and told them of his prayer; and before them all John Oxenham, his lieutenant, vowed... | |
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... besought Almighty GOD of His goodness, to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship, in that sea... 
