The Isles of Shoals: An Historical SketchHurd and Houghton, 1875 - 214 pàgines |
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adventure Appledore Boston Cape Capt John Mason Captain Champlain CHAPTER charge Church coast Company of Laconia constable Council Court defence Defendt Dimond early England English Ferdinando Gorges fisheries fishermen fishing French giue Gosport granted Gulf of Maine Hamp Hampshire harbor hath haue heare Hist Hog Island humble Indians inhabitants Isles of Shoals Islets Jedidiah Morse Joane Forde John Mason King Kittery Laconia lakes land Lord mainland Mass Massachusetts meeting-house Panounias Peticoners petition Petitioners pinnace Piscataqua Piscataqua river plantacon Plymouth population Portsmouth present Prov Province Puritan Records resided Richard Cutt river Robert Gorges rocks Royal sailed Samuel Argal sd Sr Ferdinando sent settlement ship Shippe Sholes Smith Smutty Nose souldiers souldjors Star Island summer thereof town trade unto vessels visited voyage vpon waters wind Winthrop ye sd yor Honors York County
Passatges populars
Pàgina 24 - Know thus far forth.— By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore : and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star ; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Pàgina 139 - Rhum to drink off when the Merchant is gone. If a man of quality chance to come where they are roystering and gulling in Wine with a dear felicity, he must be sociable and Roly-poly with them, taking off their liberal cups as freely, or else be gone, which is best for him.
Pàgina 139 - Nine pound a man for their shares, but it doth some of them little good, for the Merchant to increase his gains by putting off his Commodity in the midst of their voyages, and at the end thereof comes in with a walking Tavern, a Bark laden with the Legitimate bloud of the rich grape, which they bring from Phial...
Pàgina 80 - Now came to my remembrance the time and manner how and when I last saw and left my children and friends One was severed from me sitting on the rock at my feet, the other three in the pinnace. My little babe (ah, poor Peter), sitting in his sister Edith's arms, who to the utmost of her power sheltered him from the waters.
Pàgina 75 - England since the English came, nor in the memory of any of the Indians. It was so furious that our anchor came home. Whereupon the mariners let out more cable, which at last slipped away. Then our sailors knew not what to do ; but we were driven before the wind and waves.
Pàgina 53 - And what sport doth yield a more pleasing content, and less hurt or charge, than angling with a hook, and crossing the sweet air from isle to isle, over the silent streams of a calm sea.
Pàgina 177 - A HEAP of bare and splintery crags Tumbled about by lightning and frost, With rifts and chasms and storm-bleached jags, That wait and growl for a ship to be lost ; No island, but rather the skeleton Of a wrecked and vengeance-smitten one...
Pàgina 146 - ... earnest prayer, the poor man recovered his boat, which was brought up from the bottom by the anchor of a vessel, cast upon it without design. A number of such remarkable correspondencies between the events of providence and the prayers of Mr.
Pàgina 77 - We are all cast away. The Lord have mercy upon us ! I have been washed overboard into the sea, and am gotten in again." His speeches made me look forth.
Pàgina 46 - VOYAGE INTO NEW ENGLAND, BEGUN IN 1623, AND ENDED IN 1624. PERFORMED BY CHRISTOPHER LEVETT, HIS MAJESTY'S WOODWARD OF SOMERSETSHIRE, AND ONE OF THE COUNCIL OF NEW ENGLAND.