 | John Barrow - 1818 - 450 halaman
...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 yet undone,...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 - 1818 - 454 halaman
...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 yet undone,...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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1826 - 644 halaman
...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... | |
 | William Desborough Cooley - 1830 - 386 halaman
...had persuaded himself that the voyage was not only feasible, but of easy execution ; and "as it was the only thing of the world that was left yet undone...notable mind might be made famous and fortunate," he persisted, for fifteen years, in endeavouring to procure the equipment of the expedition which was... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1835 - 800 halaman
...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 mind might be made famous and fortunate ;" he persisted for fifteen years in endeavouring to procure the equipment of the expedition. At length... | |
 | Joseph Martin, William Henry Brockenbrough - 1835 - 644 halaman
...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 - 1836 - 844 halaman
...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 mind might be made famous and fortunate ;" he persisted for fifteen years in endeavouring to procure the equipment of the expedition. At length... | |
 | John Frost - 1844 - 494 halaman
...had persuaded himself that the voyage was not only feasible, but of easy execution ; and " as it was the only thing of the world that was left yet undone...notable mind might be made famous and fortunate," he persisted for fifteen years, in endeavouring to procure the equipment of the expedition which was... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 596 halaman
...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 - 1846 - 574 halaman
...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;... | |
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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... 
