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" our swords but our sayls, that first spred the English name in Barbary, and thence came (sic) into Turkey, Armenia, Moscovia, Arabia, Persia, India, China, and indeed over and about the world. It is the traffic of their merchants and the boundless desires... "
History of India: The European struggle for Indian supremacy in the ... - Page 265
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A History of British India: To the union of the old and new companies under ...

Sir William Wilson Hunter - India - 1900 - 480 pages
...commerce,' runs a powerful appeal just after the (i6«) meeting of the Long Parliament, 'it is not our swords but our sayls, that first spred the English...to eternize the English honour and name, that hath enduced them to saile and seek into all the corners of the earth.' l Under the Commonwealth.the desire...
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The Influence of Oversea Expansion on England to 1700

James Edward Gillespie - Great Britain - 1920 - 396 pages
...but our sayls, that sped the English name in Barbary, and thence came into Turkey, Armenia, Muscovia, Arabia, Persia, India, China, and indeed over and about the world; it is the traffike of their Merchants, and the boundlesse desires of that nation to eternalize the English honour...
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Studies in Empire and Trade

John Wynne Jeudwine - Colonial companies - 1923 - 524 pages
..."), " that first spread the English name in Barbary, and thence came into Turkey, Armenia, Muscovia, Arabia, Persia, India, China, and indeed over and...traffic of their merchants and the boundless desires of their nation to eternize the English honour and name that hath induced them to sail and seek into all...
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Studies in Empire and Trade

John Wynne Jeudwine - Colonial companies - 1923 - 524 pages
..."), " that first spread the English name in Barbary, and thence came into Turkey, Armenia, Muscovia, Arabia, Persia, India, China, and indeed over and...traffic of their merchants and the boundless desires of their nation to eternize the English honour and name that hath induced them to sail and seek into all...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 243

1926 - 434 pages
...made it famous over all those remote Regions. ... It is not our conquests, but our Commerce; it is not our swords, but our sayls, that first spred the English name in Barbary, and thence came into Turkey, Armenia, Moscovia, Arabia, Persia, India, China, and indeed over and about the world....
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Colonialism and Culture

Nicholas B. Dirks - History - 1992 - 420 pages
...it is not our swords, but our sails, that first spread the English name in Barbary, and thence came into Turkey, Armenia, Moscovia, Arabia, Persia, India, China, and indeed over and about the world." Quint comments: "Insisting that the true heroes of exploration are merchants, Roberts provides an alternative"—an...
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Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England

Richard Helgerson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 390 pages
...it is not our swords, but our sails, that first spread the English name in Barbary, and thence came into Turkey, Armenia, Moscovia, Arabia, Persia, India, China, and indeed over and about the world." Quint comments: "Insisting that the true heroes of exploration are merchants, Roberts provides an alternative"—...
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Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton

David Quint - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 448 pages
...6 Roberts comments further in another passage: It is not our conquests, but our Commerce; it is not our swords, but our sayls, that first spred the English name in Barbary, and thence came into Turkey, Armenia, Moscovia, Arabia, Persia, India, China, and indeed over and about the world;...
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Early British Economics: From the 13th to the Middle of the 18th ..., Volume 2

Max Beer - Economics - 2003 - 264 pages
...our swords, but our sails that first spread the English name in Barbary, Turkey, Armenia, Muscovy, Arabia, Persia, India, China and indeed over and about the world; it is traffic of our merchants and the boundless desire of that nation to eternize the English honour and...
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