...who make large profits by hiring out their ships of war to the Spaniards and Portuguese, are obliged to import most of their materials they use. We ou... ...y publishing it at St. James’s, to the commanders in chief at Boston, to the Admirals and Captains who are piratically ravaging our coasts, and to all...

...one makes them a third-rate maritime power in Europe) should appoint a few admirals in their navy, I hope to hear that your flag is hoisted on board o... ...rsist in going to see; whereas a man would have a much better insight into Portuguese manners, by planting himself at a corner, like yon- der beggar, ... ...pictures of the Duke of Wellington, done in a very characteristic style of Portuguese art. There is also a chapel, which has been decorated with much... ...le vessel, with a huge shining lateen sail, and bearing the blue and white Portuguese flag, was seen playing a sort of leap-frog on the jolly waves, j... ... he carries Her Majesty’s mails meekly through this world, waits upon port-admirals and captains in his old glazed hat, and is as proud of the pennon ...

...talk was all of valour and death, and the magnificent qualities of British admirals. Clarissa quoted one poet, Willoughby quoted another. Life on boar... ...s, and painted idols; from the sea came venge- ful Spaniards and rapacious Portuguese; exposed to all these enemies (though the climate proved wonderf... ...was three hundred years ago. In population it is a happy compro- mise, for Portuguese fathers wed Indian mothers, and their children intermarry with t... ...epper, asleep too. Thirty-six, thirty- seven, thirty-eight—here were three Portuguese men of business, asleep presumably, since a snore came with the ... ...s. Paley was wheeled past. Susan followed. Mr. Venning strolled after her. Portuguese military families, their clothes suggesting late rising in untid...

...desecrate this exquisite creature with paint, like those staring kings and admirals yonder?” “Not paint her!” exclaimed Captain Hunnewell, who stood b... ...f blockheads? There was a rumor in Boston, about this period, that a young Portuguese lady of rank, on some occasion of politi cal or domestic disqui...

...t we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Louis XVI. of France, at his own ... ...llages?—The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (Leaps to his feet.) Portuguese sailor. How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by fo... ...y belongs to it. The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a... ...and abominable, devilish re- bellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catho- lic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh vi... ...e pondered again, and muttered: “Foolish toy! babies’ plaything of haughty Admirals, and Commodores, and Captains; the world brags of thee, of thy cun... ...s before me. Here, our old sailors say, in their black seventy-fours great admirals some- times sit at table, and lord it over rows of captains and li...

...t we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Louis XVI. of France, at his own p... ...ages? — The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (Leaps to his feet.) Portuguese sailor. How the sea rolls swashing ’gainst the side! Stand by fo... ...lly belongs to it. The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a... ..., and abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh via ... ...e pondered again, and muttered: “Foolish toy! babies’ plaything of haughty Admirals, and Commodores, and Captains; the world brags of thee, of thy cun... ...s before me. Here, our old sailors say, in their black seventy fours great admirals sometimes sit at table, and lord it over rows of captains and lieu...

...were rigid, he was impartial too, in asserting the laws of England. When a Portuguese nobleman, the brother of the Portu guese ambassador, killed a L... ...e great battle between the two forces, the Dutch lost eighteen ships, four admirals, and seven thousand men. But, the English on shore were in no mood... ...nglish gained another and a greater; and Prince Rupert, one of the English admirals, was out in the Channel one windy night, looking for the French Ad... ...y starving of want, and dying in the streets; while the Dutch, under their admirals A Child’s Histroy of England 410 de Witt and de Ruyter, came in...

...ez on reaching T ucuman found no Spaniards to mix with, but instead twelve Portuguese. Catalina remembered the Spanish proverb—‘Subtract from a Spania... ...m a Spaniard all his good qualities, and the remainder makes a pretty fair Portuguese;’ but, as there was nobody else to 122 Narrative and Miscellane... ...rt distance. The light-hearted young cavalier whistled, as he went, an old Portuguese ballad of romance; and in a quarter of an hour came up to an hou... ...e hour of vengeance had struck; and, step- ping hastily up, she tapped the Portuguese on the shoulder, saying —‘Senor, you are a robber!’ The Portugue... ... her sword through her opponent’s body; and without a groan or a sigh, the Portuguese cavalier fell dead at his own door. Kate searched the street wit... ...ords, until translated back into Greek, as that most classi- cal of yellow admirals. ‘Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt!’ 318 Narrative and Miscel...