 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1812 - 706 pages
...accompliih or bring true certificate of the truth, or elfe never to return again ; knowing this to be the only thing of the world that was left yet undone,...a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate. But although his will were great to perform this notable voyage, whereof he had conceived in his mind... | |
 | John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1818 - 450 pages
...easy execution. His friends, however, were not so readily persuaded to enter into his scheme; but, " as it was the only thing of the world that was left...notable mind might be made famous and fortunate," he persevered for fifteen years without being able to acquire the means of setting forth an expedition,... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1818 - 454 pages
...easy execution. His friends, however, were not so readily persuaded to enter into his scheme ; but, " as it was the only thing of the world that was left...notable mind might be made famous and fortunate," he persevered for fifteen years without being able to acquire the means of setting forth an expedition,... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 644 pages
...from attempting 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 be made famous and fortunate.' Thus it is that, ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble... | |
 | Robert Huish - Arctic regions - 1835 - 800 pages
...himself, that the voyage was not only feasible but of easy execution ; " and as it was the only thing in the world that was left yet undone, whereby a notable...endeavouring to procure the equipment of the expedition. At length in 1576, by the patronage of Dudley, earl of Warwick, he was enabled to fit out two small... | |
 | Joseph Martin, William Henry Brockenbrough - Virginia - 1835 - 644 pages
...accounts which seem most credible, are followed by Hacklyt, vol. V. p. 283, Bancroft, vol. J. p. 12. world that was left yet undone, whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate."* Frobisher was too poor to supply himself with the means of carrying his designs into execution, but... | |
 | Robert Huish - Northwest Passage - 1836 - 844 pages
...himself, that the voyage was not only feasible but of easy execution ; " and as it was the only thing in the world that was left yet undone, whereby a notable...endeavouring to procure the equipment of the expedition. At length in 1576, by the patronage of Dudley, earl of Warwick, he was enabled to fit out two small... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 596 pages
...and resolved within himself to go and make full proof thereof," "knowing this to be the only thing in the world that was left yet undone, whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate." Frobisher was too poor to supply himself with the means of carrying his designs into execution ; but... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1846 - 574 pages
...from engaging in 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 be made famous and fortunate." We may still say — " The North-Pole is the only tiling in the world about which we know nothing;... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1846 - 400 pages
...from engaging in the discovery of a northwest passage : " It is the only thing in the world that is left yet undone whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate." We may still say, " The North Pole is the only thing in the world about which we know nothing; and... | |
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... the only thing of the world that was left yet undone, whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate. 
