 | 1858 - 798 pages
...the Great Admiral. Vast honour is paid him, and he dresses in silk ; and these English run after iim like mad people, so that he can enlist as many of them as he pleases, and a number of our own rogues besides." Mr. Cheney goes on to state " that Sebastian bimself has been the subject of some... | |
 | 1861 - 850 pages
...a people. " Vast honor," he says, " is paid to him, and he dresses in silk ; and these English ran after him like mad people, so that he can enlist as...many of them as he pleases, and a number of our own rogues besides." John Cabot was the first whom we know to have set foot on America, Columbus having... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - 1864 - 580 pages
...him money wherewith to amuse himself till then, and he is now at Bristol with his wife, who is also Venetian, and with his sons ; his name is Zuan Cabot,...many of them as he pleases, and a number of our own rogues besides. The discoverer of these places planted on his new-found land a large cross, with one... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1868 - 666 pages
...intelligent Venetian, resident in London, writing home to his brothers. " Vast honour is paid him, and ho dresses in silk ; and these English run after him...that he can enlist as many of them as he pleases. The King has promised that in the spring he shall have ten ships, armed according to his fancy ; and... | |
 | 1873 - 966 pages
...it he says, " his name is Zuan Cabot, and he is styled the great admiral. Vast honour is paid him, and these English run after him like mad people, so...as many of them as he pleases, and a number of our rogues besides. The discoverer of these places planted on his new found land a large cross, with one... | |
 | 1873 - 896 pages
...admiral. Vast honour is paid him, and these English run after him like mad people, so that he can enl'i.-t as many of them as he pleases, and a number of our rogues besides. The discoverer of these places Slantedon his new found land a large cross, wilh one... | |
 | Aaron Goodrich - 1874 - 426 pages
...styled the great admiral. Vast honor is paid him ; he dresses in silk, and these English run alter him like mad people, so that he can enlist as many of them as he pleases, and a number of our own rogues besides. The discoverer of these places planted on his new-found land a large cross, with one... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1875 - 394 pages
...silk, and was followed by crowds of admirers. The merchant's letter adds, "These Englishmen run about after him like mad people; so that he can enlist as...many of them as he pleases, and a number of our own rogues besides." A year after, in 1498, Sebastian Cabot sailed again with two ships, and three hundred... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1877 - 444 pages
...his sons. His name is Zuan1 Cabot; and they call him the great admiral. Vast honor is paid him, and he dresses in silk ; and these English run after him...many of them as he pleases, and a number of our own rogues besides. The discoverer of these places planted on his newfound land a large cross, with one... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1877 - 408 pages
...his sons. His name is Zuan1 Cabot; and they call him the great admiral. Vast honor is paid him, and he dresses in silk; and these English run after him...many of them as he pleases, and a number of our own rogues besides. The discoverer of these places planted on his newfound land a large cross, with one... | |
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Vast honour is paid him; he dresses in silk, and these English run after him like mad people, so that he can enlist as many of them as he pleases, and a number of our own rogues besides. 
