| Thomas Hood - 1862 - 560 páginas
...the Atlantic to the Pacific, and left it precisely where it was at the conclusion of his tempt — " It is the only thing in the world that is left yet...notable mind might be made famous and fortunate." (10.) ADDRESS TO MARIA DARLINGTON. The allusions in this Address may be explained, by stating that... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1861 - 494 páginas
...Sir Martin Frobisher, who replied to his friend, when seeking to dissuade him from the attempt — " It is the only thing in the world that is left yet...notable mind might be made famous and fortunate." (10.) ADDRESS TO MARIA DARLINGTON. The allusions in this Address may be explained, by stating that... | |
| Arctic discovery - 1799 - 424 páginas
...fight. His friends listened but coldly to his vivid pictures of " the only thing of the world that was left yet undone, whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate." The unfortunate merchants who hesitated he accused of not regarding " vertue, without sure, certaine,... | |
| 1849 - 636 páginas
...were made to dissuade Sir Martin Frobisher from engaging in the discovery of a North-west Passage, be answered, " It is the only thing in the world that...notable mind might be made famous and fortunate." Let us hope, however, that the effort may not he rashly prolonged. If the leaders were youths, instead... | |
| 1865 - 792 páginas
...unconsciously, by Frobisher's own declared motive, " knowing this to be the only thing of the world that was left yet undone whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate." Captain Hall, moreover, after an eighteen months' residence of daily and familiar intercourse with... | |
| English explorers - 1875 - 680 páginas
...Frobisher, a mariner of great experience and ability. He said, 'It was the only thing of the world that was left yet undone whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate.' In 1576' by the patronage of Dudley, Earl of Warwick, he was enabled to fit out two small vessels for... | |
| Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 488 páginas
...out a small fleet, for his thoughts had turned wistfully to the discovery of a north-west passage. " It is the only thing in the world that is left yet undone, whereby a notable mind might 1* made famous and fortunate," he said. By the aid of the Earl of Warwick he was able at last to fit... | |
| Samuel Adams Drake - 1887 - 718 páginas
...Pole, and who, like Sir Martin Frobisher, have considered such achievements the only things on earth " left yet undone whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate." Twice by land and as many times by sea did he attempt the enterprise in pursuit of which he at last... | |
| Samuel Adams Drake - 1888 - 824 páginas
...Pole, and who, like Sir Martin Frobisher, have considered such achievements the only things on earth " left yet undone whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate." Twice by land and as many times by sea did he attempt the enterprise in pursuit of which he at last... | |
| Angelo Heilprin - 1893 - 208 páginas
...centuries in advance of the actual discovery) regarding the North-West passage: "It is the only tiling in the world that is left, yet undone whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate." Two questions here naturally suggest themselves : Is the Pole in fact accessible, and if so, how and... | |
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