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States; and to Humphrey Gilbert himself something better than a new world, namely another world, and a crown of glory therein which never fades away.
Westward Ho! 2007
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Humphrey Gilbert, most pious and most learned of seamen and of cavaliers, beloved and honored above all his compeers by Queen
Westward Ho! 2007
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“I belong to the school of Thales, who held that the ocean is the mother of all life; and feel no more repugnance at returning to her bosom again than Humphrey Gilbert did.”
Westward Ho! 2007
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Humphrey Gilbert had served Queen Elizabeth I with distinction since his youth at Court and was determined to find trade routes to the Orient through--and establish English colonies on--North America.
Archive 2006-08-01 Will 2006
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Humphrey Gilbert had served Queen Elizabeth I with distinction since his youth at Court and was determined to find trade routes to the Orient through--and establish English colonies on--North America.
DesignerBlog Will 2006
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A report of the Voyage and success thereof, attempted in the year of our Lord 1583, by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Knight, with other gentlemen assisting him in that action, intended to discover and to plant
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland Edward Hayes
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Humphrey Gilbert, which proved more unfortunate than the former one; two out of five vessels returned home in consequence of sickness, and two were wrecked, including that in which the admiral sailed; and the only result of the enterprise was the taking possession of
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One was Humphrey Gilbert; the other, Walter Raleigh.
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Raleigh, who had played on the sands with Humphrey Gilbert, sends out his colonists to the Roanoke, and lays the foundations for the beginning of empire in the Southern States.
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But the last thirty years had furnished no instance of success, and many of disastrous and sometimes tragical failure, in like attempts — the enterprises of Humphrey Gilbert, of
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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