 | Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout - Great Britain - 1908 - 402 pages
...climbed a tall tree, and from its top looked down on the Pacific. He fervently prayed " Almighty God to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea," which had hitherto been navigated by the ships of Spain alone. In 1573 he was back at Plymouth, with... | |
 | Frederick Treves - History - 1908 - 498 pages
...LXIH. OLLOWED THE GOLD with silver nor from there " besought Almighty God of His goodness to give hii and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." prayer was answered and in five years' time. Moving southwards the party of pirates and Indians re;... | |
 | Richard Hakluyt - America - 1909 - 234 pages
...of which, the mighty Pacific, no Englishman had hitherto sailed. Drake then and there prayed God ' to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship upon that sea.' Calling up John Oxenham, one of his captains, he acquainted him with his resolution... | |
 | English literature - 1909 - 494 pages
...Drake's desertion of him after the disaster of 1568 (see note, p. 62). II Cf. Corbett, Drake, i. 164-5. and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea,' has been justly seized upon by all who have studied Elizabethan history with any intelligence. It is... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1910 - 436 pages
...\breese], a very fair day, had seen that sea, of which he had heard such golden reports: he " besought Almighty GOD of His goodness, to give him life and...that sea ! " And then calling up all the rest of our [17 English] men, he acquainted JOHN OXNAM especially with this his petition and purpose, if it would... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1910 - 412 pages
...on the isthmus of Darien, from which, first of Englishmen, he looked on the Pacific, and "besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and...leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." The fulfilment of this prayer is described in the second of the voyages here printed, in which it is... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1910 - 416 pages
...isthmus of Darien, from which, first of Englishmen, he looked on the Pacific, and "besought Almighty Cod of His goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." The fulfilment of this prayer is described in the second of the voyages here printed, in which it is... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 894 pages
...the South Seas, and with that touch of romantic enthusiasm that redeemed all his piracies, "besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and...leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." Drake arrived in Plymouth on Sunday, 9 Aug. 1573, during sermon-time, when the news of his return "did... | |
 | Charles Loftus Grant Anderson - America - 1911 - 702 pages
...first English commander to view the Pacific ocean. He was so transported by the sight that he "besought Almighty God of His goodness to give him life and...leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea." This was the nth of February, 1573. "From that time forward," says Camden, "his mind was pricked on... | |
 | Alice Minerva Atkinson - Europe - 1912 - 452 pages
...Pacific. No Englishman had ever before beheld the Pacific, and as Drake looked out over it he prayed God to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship upon its waters. To add to his enthusiasm for this new venture he learned that on the western coast... | |
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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... 
