 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1812 - 706 pages
...the truth, or elfe never to return again ; 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. But although his will were great to perform this notable voyage, whereof he had conceived in his mind... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1818 - 454 pages
...readily persuaded to enter into his scheme ; but, " as it was the only thing of the world that was left yet undone, whereby a 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,... | |
 | John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1818 - 450 pages
...so readily persuaded to enter into his scheme; but, " as it was the only thing of the world that was left yet undone, whereby a 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 - English literature - 1826 - 644 pages
...Frobisher when dissuaded by his friends from attempting the discovery of a North-West passage — ' it is the only thing in the world that is left yet...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 - Discoveries (in geography) - 1830 - 386 pages
...was not only feasible, but of easy execution ; and "as it was the only thing of 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 which was... | |
 | Joseph Martin, William Henry Brockenbrough - Virginia - 1835 - 644 pages
...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 - Arctic regions - 1835 - 800 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Huish - Northwest Passage - 1836 - 844 pages
...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 - United States - 1844 - 494 pages
...was not only feasible, but of easy execution ; and " as it was the only thing of 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 which was... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 616 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
