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  • Now trust me Sir, there is no great difficultie in this labour, neither doth it require any extraordinary length of time: but it may very easily be followed and performed, and (by your friendly favor, in helping to direct the Furnace and Table, according as you imagine most convenient) on

    The Decameron 2004

  • If any beast goe astray, the finder thereof either lets it goe, or driueth it to them that are put in office for the same purpose, at whose handes the owner of the said beast demaundeth it, and without any difficultie receiueth it againe.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Yet perhaps this is not a matter so easily done, or I to expresse such liberality therein, if wives were to be found with the like difficultie, as true and faithfull friends are: but,

    The Decameron 2004

  • Uppon sight of the Ship lying in that case, he imagined truely what had hapned, and commanded one of his men to enter aboord it, which (with some difficultie) hee did, to resolve his

    The Decameron 2004

  • I haue often times (sayd he) and many wayes looked into the state of earthly kingdomes, generally the whole world ouer (as farre as it may be yet knowen to Christian men commonly) being a studie of no great difficultie, but rather a purpose somewhat answerable to a perfect Cosmographer, to finde himselfe

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • After this, hauing entred with the difficultie abouesayd, there stand at the entrance two pillars of marble, to wit, on each side one.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The former, namely Iohannes de Plano Carpini (whose iourney, because he road sixe moneths poste directly beyond Boristhenes, did, I thinke, both for length and difficultie farre surpasse that of Alexander the great, vnto the riuer of Indus) was in the yeere 1246. sent with the authoritie and commission of a Legate from Pope

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The Foresight of the Queenes commaunded by M. Thomas Vauisor performed a very great fight, and stayed two houres as neere the Reuenge as the weather would permit him, not forsaking the fight, till he was like to be encompassed by the squadrons, and with great difficultie cleared himselfe.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • True it is that our successe hath not bene correspondent vnto theirs: yet in this our attempt the vncertaintie of finding was farre greater, and the difficultie and danger of searching was no whit lesse.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • If any beast goe astray, the finder thereof either lets it goe, or driueth it to them that are put in office for the same purpose, at whose handes the owner of the said beast demaundeth it, and without any difficultie receiueth it againe.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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