The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world

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The University Press, 1829

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144 ページ - of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every
102 ページ - can be well aware of his departure? certainly there is nothing more easy than to do it. Yea the like may be said of Weymouth, Purbeck, Pool, and of all landing places on the south coast: for there is no man ignorant that ships, without putting themselves out of breath, will easily outrun the soldiers that coast them; Les
97 ページ - London, suddenly embarked; and sailing to the west, landed in Dorsetshire, so drawing Edmund and his army thither. There finding ill entertainment, he again shipped his men, and entered the Severn, making Edmund to march after him, to the succour of Worcestershire, by him greatly spoiled. But when he had Edmund there, he
102 ページ - and of all landing places on the south coast: for there is no man ignorant that ships, without putting themselves out of breath, will easily outrun the soldiers that coast them; Les
432 ページ - in the way, descended from the Alps like a rolling snowball, far greater than he came over the Pyrenees at his first setting out of Spain. These considerations and the like, of which fear presented many unto them, caused the people of Rome to wait upon their consuls out of the town, like a pensive train of mourners, thinking upon
102 ページ - find it unsafe to land in the face of so many prepared to withstand him; yet must we believe that he will play the best of his own game; and (having liberty to go which way he list) under
101 ページ - by more than half the way ? seeing that the enemy, at his first arrival, will either make his entrance by force, with three or four hundred shot of great artillery, and quickly put the first three thousand, that were
145 ページ - of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hands are they delivered. He who gave this dominion to man, gave also an aptitude to use it. The execution of this power hath since extended itself over a great part of mankind. There are indeed no small numbers of men, whose disability to govern themselves proves them, according unto Aristotle's doctrine, to
83 ページ - by any man, ancient or modern; but God hath spared me the labour of finishing it by his loss; by the loss of that brave prince, of which, like an eclipse of the sun, we shall find the effects hereafter. Impossible it is to equal words and sorrows, I will therefore leave him in the hands of God that hath him: Cures leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.
102 ページ - (having liberty to go which way he list) under covert of the night, set sail towards the east, where what shall hinder him to take ground, either at Margate, the Downs, or elsewhere, before they at the Ness can be well aware of his departure? certainly there is nothing more easy than to do it. Yea the like may be said of Weymouth, Purbeck,

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