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...d journey ever made -- Marco's travels prompted Columbus' first voyage -- John Cabot in Mecca -- -- A brief biography of the Polos -- Circumstances un... ...cts -- The Pope apportions the world -- ' Discovery of the West Indies -- John Cabot discovers North America -- Voyages of the younger Cabots -- Shipw... ...nean Unicorn killing a hunter........................................ 131 John Cabot's Flag-ship.................................................. 136... ...sable love for history; that it may diffuse both pleasure and knowledge in the family circle; that it may be helpful in teaching the value of good boo... ...oah stepped forth upon dry land after the flood had drowned all except his own family. It is, therefore, no strange thing that in this region, along t... ...t the curious, resemblance borne by the heads of several varieties of the seal family to the human countenance misled him, and that he was honestly mi... ...n his second voyage. Directly after Columbus started on his first voyage, John Cabot had occasion to visit Mecca, and there seeing caravans arriving f... ...y doubted. Being now excited by the same ambitions that had actuated Columbus, Cabot set sail with a fleet equipped by some English merchants for fart... ...ller passing by goes into any man's house for entertainment, the master of the family receives him with great joy, and commands his wife and all the f...

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...some degree forgotten the miseries and privations of his childhood and his family amid the other privations and miseries which are never lacking to “r... ...er of 1841 cousin Sylvestre Gazonal went to inform the illustrious unknown family of Lora that their little Leon had not gone to the Rio de la Plata, ... ... one of the greatest geniuses of the French school of painting; a fact the family did not believe. The eldest son, Don Juan de Lora assured his cousin... ...ale.” “My friend here,” said Bixiou, motioning to Gazonal, “has an immense family interest in ascertaining whether a young lady of a good and wealthy ... ..., “out with it! What is it you want to know, my lambs?” “About the Beunier family,” replied Bixiou, very glad to find out something in this indirect m... ...I’ll tell you his tale,” said Bixiou. “In the year 1800 a Toulousian named Cabot, a young wig-maker devoured by ambition, came to Paris, and set up a ... ...m business, at Libourne,—well, he saw that so vulgar and ignoble a name as Cabot could never attain celebrity. Monsieur de Parny, whose hair he cut, g... ...an names of Armand and Hippolyte, behind which patronymics attacked by the Cabot evil are wont to hide. All the successors of Cabot have called themse...

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...ghter. This vanity, excusable as it was, caused his final rejection by the family, who held dissipation of property in holy horror, and who now discov... ...is the brother-in-law of the Vicomte de Fontaine; therefore, this numerous family is allied through the Baron de Fontaine to Monsieur Grossetete, the ... ...ehold; but Monsieur Mongenod has just given me some information about your family which—” “Ah, madame,—monsieur!” said Godefroid, addressing both Mada... ...both Madame de la Chanterie and the banker, “I have no 21 Balzac longer a family; and I have come here now to ask some fi- nancial advice of my fathe... ...- known for his participation in the expedition to Quiberon. 6. Marie-Anne Cabot, called Lajeunesse, former hunts- man to the Sieur Carol of Alencon. ... ...and Boislaurier led and placed their men. Hiley hid in ambush with Minard, Cabot, and Bruce at the right of the Chesnay forest; Boislaurier, Grenier, ... ... instruments of the crime, namely, Cibot, Lisieux, Grenier, Bruce, Horeau, Cabot, and Minard, is evident; it appears from the confessions of those of ... ...to decide whether the pris- oners Herbomez, Hiley, Cibot, Grenier, Horeau, Cabot, Minard, Melin, Binet, Laraviniere, Rousseau, the woman Bryond, Levei... ... Godefroid. “The notary Leveille, Herbomez, Hiley, Cibot, Grenier, Horeau, Cabot, Minard, and Mallet were condemned to death, and executed the same da...

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... who loves peace and dreads pain, leaves his pleasant home and his weeping family and marches out to manfully expose himself to hunger, cold, wounds, ... ...tal comfort— for that is the sole low of his life . He leaves the weeping family behind; he is sorry to make them uncomfortable, but not sorry enough... ...t in deference to public opin ion he fought a duel. He deeply loved his family, but to buy public approval he treacherously deserted them and threw... ... having refused to fight. The teachings of religion, his devo tion to his family, his kindness of heart, his high principles, all went for nothing wh... ...roval. O.M. I did. By refusing to fight the duel he would have secured his family’s approval and a large share of his own; but the public approval was... ...T wain 107 achievement gave him the discovery fever, and he sent Sebastian Cabot to the New World to search out some for eign territory for England. ... ... the New World to search out some for eign territory for England. That is Cabot’s ship up there in the corner. This was the first time that England w...

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...tones, a tableful of bright-coloured Jews who talked in over- tones, and a family party from the Midlands, badly smitten with shyness, who did not tal... ...contrivances and sacrifices and patience the fierce and lonely patriarchal family-herd of a male and his women and off spring had grown into the clan ... ...le, with a miscellany of dusty luggage, rugs and luncheon things therein—a family automobile with father no doubt at the wheel. Sir Richmond left his ... ...vised, and the small boy was released from archaeology. He strolled to the family automobile, produced an en-tout- cas pocket-handkerchief and set him... ...is recovery. On the greensward be- fore her stood the paterfamilias of the family automobile, and he was making a trumpet with his hands in order to r... ... cry sud- denly. “ T o think it was exactly where it is before there was a Cabot in America!” Miss Grammont let her companion pull the talk about as s...

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...mans by his false and base stepmother: and they car ried him, and all his family, in triumph to Rome. But a great man will be great in misfortune, gr... ...ched the Roman people who thronged the streets to see him, that he and his family were restored to freedom. No one knows whether his great heart broke... ... A Child’s Histroy of England 40 plan to marry into some powerful foreign family that would help him with soldiers. So, in the year one thousand and ... ...in hunting down his enemies, that he must have got together a pretty large family of these dear brothers. He was strongly inclined to kill Edmund and... ...he great Earl and his sons began to fall off. The Earl, with a part of his family and abundance of treasure, sailed to Flanders; Harold escaped to Ire... ...n for further discoveries in the New World, and entrusted it to Sebastian Cabot, of Bristol, the son of a Venetian pilot there. He was very successfu... ... 182, 186 Rowena 19, 20 Rumbold 419 Rumsey 419 S Savage 334 Sebastian Cabot 279 Sebert 21 Seminary Priests 333 A Child’s Histroy of England 4...

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...t the Tour of the Waterin’ Places of England, Grubb? Singing! Young men of family doing it for a lark? You ain’t got a bad voice, you know, and mine’s... ...as not dead. The chief of the aeronautic establishment near West Point was Cabot Sinclair, and he allowed himself but one single moment of the posturi... ...n ‘is head? Rot about Napoleon, rot about Alexander, rot about ‘is blessed family and ‘im and Gord and David and all that. Any one who wasn’t a dresse... ...oods, he saw pig-stys and a rooting black sow leading a brisk, adventurous family. A wild-looking woman with sloe-black eyes and dishevelled black ha...

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... ripe for profit by such an experience as young Armstrong. He lived in the family of President Hopkins, and thus had a training that was wholly out of... ...Such a student will come back with a minute report of the way in which the family that he has seen lives, what their earnings are, what they do well a... ...etter. He constructs a definite plan for the betterment of that particular family out of the resources that they have. Such a student, if he be bright... ...any information that would throw any accurate light upon the history of my family beyond my mother. She, I remember, had a half-brother and a half-sis... ...a half-sister. In the days of slavery not very much attention was given to family history and family records—that is, black family records. My mother,... ...vernor Roger Wolcott, General Miles, Dr. Minot J. Sav- age, the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, and myself. When I was called upon, I said, among other things...

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...father. He was a free man and burned char- coal hereabouts. I’ve known the family, father and son, so long that I get confused sometimes. Hob of the D... ... must be a hundred years older. Oh, quite that, because the founder of our family had his land given him by Agricola at the Settle- ment. It’s not a b... ...ther could make us laugh!’ ‘What at?’ ‘Little jokes and sayings that every family has. Don’t you know?’ ‘I know we have, but I didn’t know other peopl... ... didn’t know other people had them too,’ said Una. ‘Tell me about all your family, please.’ ‘Good families are very much alike. Mother would sit spin-... ...metimes another. But now I’m busy.” ‘He said no more till we had saved the family Gods (they were respectable householders), and then he grunted acros... ...ld. And he found them, too! There’s a nose to cleave through unknown seas! Cabot was his name—a Bristol lad— half a foreigner. I set a heap by him. He... ...ks off the Port of Rye. And why? To take those very serpentines which poor Cabot must whistle for; the said serpentines, I’ll wager my share of new co...

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...ains in sight in that direction. Now and then some small bird of the sparrow family would flit away before me, unable to command its course, like a fra... ...many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited. If Columbus was the fi... ...ed. If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their de scendants, have discovered only... ...er allied mountains ranging with it north easterly, presented a very strong family likeness, as if all cast in one mould. The steamer here approached... ...mething more like a house adjoining, for the accommodation of the carryman’s family and passing lumber ers. The bed of withered fir twigs smelled very... ...h wood that night as would, with economy and an air tight stove, last a poor family in one of our cities all winter. It was very agreeable, as well as... ... came here to live and built the present house four years before, though the family had been here but a few months. I was interested to see how a pion...

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...ked to him during most of the watch on the night before about his mother and family at home, and this was the first time that he had mentioned the sub... ...e, with the exception of one side, in which the commandant lived, with his family. There were only two guns, one of which was spiked, and the other ... ...erwards saw the murderer in San Diego, where he was living with his wife and family. When a crime has been committed by Indians, justice, or rat... ... very men who would lay down their lives to avenge the dishonor of their own family, would risk the same lives to complete the dishonor of another. ... ...e ship;’’ and the chief mate thought more of her than he would of a wife and family. The ship lay about a week longer in port, when, having disch... ...me tobacco and calico, took George with him on the voyage. This was the ship Cabot, of New York, Captain Low. She was bound to Manilla, from across th... ...ceived by an arrival from Boston, we found a letter from Captain Low, of the Cabot, published immediately upon his arrival at New York, and giving al...

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...s By Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 1935. T o THOMAS SERGEANT PERRY and LILLA CABOT PERRY The Valley of the Shadow There were faces to remember in the ... ...ers of the silence in the Valley of the Shadow, Each an isolated item in the family sacrifice. There were creepers among catacombs where dull regrets ...