 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...again by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon the place to feed so many men as will serve to defend it, and being every way so inaccessible...Netherlands, it was in this sort regained. He anchored in the roads with one ship of small burden, and pretending the death of bis merchant, besought the French,... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - Guiana - 1820 - 622 pages
...recovered again by force, having cattle and corn enough upon the place to feed so many men as will serve to defend it ; and being every way so inaccessible,...that it might be held against the great Turk. Yet, by a stratagem of a gentleman of the Netherlands, it wag in this sort regained. He anchored in the road... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1829 - 592 pages
...again by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon the place to feed so many men as will serve to defend it, and being every way so inaccessible,...was in this sort regained. He anchored in the road with one ship of small burden, and, pretending the death of his merchant, besought the French, being... | |
 | Jersey - 1832 - 146 pages
..." by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon the " place to feed so many men as will serve to defend it, " and being every way so inaccessible..." against the Great Turk; yet by the industry of a genu tleman of the Netherlands, it was in this sort regainc-d. " He anchored in the road with one ship,... | |
 | Henry David Inglis - Channel Islands - 1834 - 330 pages
...again by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon the place, to feed so many men as will serve to defend it ; and being every way so inaccessible,...was in this sort regained. He anchored in the road with one ship ; and pretending the death of his merchant; besought the French that they might bury... | |
 | Henry David Inglis - Channel Islands - 1834 - 318 pages
...again by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon th.e. place, to feed so many men as will serve to defend it ; and being every way so inaccessible,...was in this sort regained. He anchored in the road with one ship ; and pretending th« death of his merchant ; besought the French* that they might bury... | |
 | Philip Falle - Jersey - 1837 - 548 pages
...MSS. de JERSEY. Ch.xxxiv. (t) Hist, of the World, Parti. Book IV. Ch.xi.§. 18. many Men as will serve to defend it, and being every way so inaccessible...was in this Sort regained. He anchored in the Road with one Ship, and pretending the Death of his Merchant, besought the French that they might bury their... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 pages
...again by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon the place to feed so many men as will serve to defend it, and being every way so inaccessible,...against the great Turk, — yet by the industry of a gcntlman of the Netherlands, it was in this sort regained. He anchored in the road with one ship, and... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 592 pages
...been recovered by the strong hand, having cattle and corn enough to feed so many men as will serve to defend it ; and being every way so inaccessible...by the industry of a gentleman of the Netherlands, was it in this way regained. He anchored in the road with one ship, and pretending the death of his... | |
 | Naturalist - Channel Islands - 1855 - 406 pages
...again by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon the place to feed as many men as will serve to defend it, and being every way so inaccessible, that it might be " held against the Grand Turk himself." In the Edinburgh Journal, No. 136, New Series, the subject is treated in a familiar... | |
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Mary's time surprised by the French, and could never have been recovered again by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon the place to feed so many men as will serve to defend it, and being every way so inaccessible, that it might be held against... 
