 | 1846 - 706 pages
...yet lands unknown which might be 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 I think on dangers and death, I think of them only because they would remove me from such a... | |
 | Sir Henry Keppel, Sir James Brooke - Borneo - 1846 - 394 pages
...yet lands unknown which might be 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 I think on dangers and death, I think of them only because they would remove me from such a... | |
 | 1848 - 594 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...sacrificed, in an endeavour to explore these regions ? When I think on dangers and death, I think on them only because they would remove me from such a... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 552 pages
...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 endeavour to explore these regions ? When I think on dangers and death, I think of them only because they would remove me from such a... | |
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... 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, would not a man's life be well spent — tell me, would it not be well sacrificed,... 