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Sir John Hawkins   /sər dʒɑn hˈɔkɪnz/   Listen
Sir John Hawkins

noun
1.
English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595).  Synonyms: Hawkins, Hawkyns, Sir John Hawkyns.






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"Sir John Hawkins" Quotes from Famous Books



... remarks which deserve to be recorded for the benefit of mankind, they are those which have been expressed on a dying bed, when, unfettered by prejudice or passion, Truth shines forth in her real colours. Sir John Hawkins has recorded of Dr. Johnson, that when suffering under that disease which ended in his dissolution, he addressed his friends in the following words:—"You see the state I am in, conflicting with bodily pain and mental distraction. While you are in health and strength, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, - Issue 495, June 25, 1831 • Various

... probably first brought to the shores of England from Florida by Sir John Hawkins in 1565. Englishmen were growing it by the 1570's, and after the return of the daring Sir Francis Drake to England with a large quantity of tobacco captured in the West Indies in 1586, the use of tobacco in England was increased substantially. ...
— Tobacco in Colonial Virginia - "The Sovereign Remedy" • Melvin Herndon

... of him nor of her, and which was ridiculed by Peter Pindar in "A Town Eclogue," in which the rivals Bozzy and Piozzi, on Virgil's principle—Alternis dicetis, amant alterna Camaenae—relate in turn anecdotes of Johnson's way of life, his witty sayings, &c., &c. Sir John Hawkins, as judge of the contest, gives neither a prize; tells the lady, "Sam's Life, dear ma'am, will only damn your own;" calls the ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole



Words linked to "Sir John Hawkins" :   Hawkyns, privateersman, privateer, Sir John Hawkyns, Hawkins



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