| 1846 - 706 pages
...reputation, and ' where hundreds may yet do so, if they have the same courage and the same perseverance. Imagination whispers to ambition, that there are yet...discovered. Tell me, would not a man's life be well spent — tell me, would it not be well sacrificed — in an endeavour to explore these regions ? When... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 602 pages
...tation, and where hundreds may yet do so, if they have the same courage and the same perseverance. Imagination whispers to ambition, that there are yet lands unknown which might be discovered. Teil me, would not a man's life be well spent — tell me, would it not be well sacrificed — in an... | |
| Sir Henry Keppel - Borneo - 1846 - 864 pages
...reputation, and where hundreds may yet do so. it they ave the same courage and the same perseverance. Imagination whispers to ambition that there are yet...discovered. Tell me, would not a man's life be well spent — tell me, would it not be well sacrificed, in an endeavor to explore these regions? When I... | |
| 1846 - 610 pages
...reputation, and where hundreds may yet do so, if they have the same courage and the same perseverance. Imagination whispers to ambition, that there are yet lands unknown which might be discovered. Teil me, would not a man's life be well spent — tell me, would it not be well sacrificed — in an... | |
| Great Britain - 1847 - 552 pages
...reputation, and where hundreds more may yet do so, if they have the same courage and the same perseverance. Imagination whispers to ambition that there are yet...lands unknown which might be discovered. Tell me," he asks, " would not a man's life be well spent — tell me, would it not be well sacrificed, in an... | |
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