 ... kindred greetings with all on earth, that bear the stamp of man. This is the third time, that I have been overtaken and arrested by winter ; and both the others, by giving time for my evil genius to rally his hosts about me, have defeated the enterprise....  The Library of American Biography - Page 297by Jared Sparks - 1847Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 636 pages
...alas, shall I do," exclaims he, in his journal, " for I am miserably prepared for this unlocked for delay. By remaining here through the winter, I cannot...ardent desire of gaining the opposite continent. But 1 submit." ' — pp. 303, 304. While thus detained for the winter at Yakutsk, he drew up gome very... | |
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...climates, Africa, explored, I will lay me down, and claim my little portion of the globe I have view-, ed ; may it not be before. How many of the noble minded...Commandant assured me, that he had orders from the Governor General to render me all possible kindness and service; 'But, Sir,' continued he, ' the first... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 646 pages
...rally his hosts about me, have defeated the enterprise. Fortune, thou hast humbled me at last, for T am this moment the slave of cowardly solicitude, lest,...of gaining the opposite continent. But I submit."' — pp. 303, 304. While thus detained for the winter at Yakutsk, he drew up some very just observations... | |
 | Theology - 1828 - 682 pages
...humbled me at last, for I am this moment the slave of cowardly solicitude, lest in the heart of this died winter, there lurk the seeds of disappointment to...ardent desire of gaining the opposite continent. But 1 submit." p. 228. The most valuable part of this work, as well as the most curious, is about twenty... | |
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...toil might better brace your bodies, give spring to mind and zest to enjoyment ; and a very little gf that wealth, which you scatter around you, would put...commandant assured me, that he had orders from the governor general to render me all possible kindness and service ; ' But, Sir,' continued he, ' the... | |
 | 1828 - 636 pages
...I will lay me down, and claim my little portion of the globe I have viewed ; may it not be hefore. How many of the noble minded have been subsidiary...of gaining the opposite continent. But I submit." ' — pp. 303, 304. While thus detained for the winter at Yakutsk, he drew up some very just observations... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - Biography - 1858 - 606 pages
...half the globe, and witnessed what — the tale I will not unfold. * •* _ * This is the third time I have been overtaken and arrested by winter, and...of gaining the opposite continent. But I submit." The commandant, who seems to have been a very good fellow, invited Ledyard to the hospitalities of... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pages
...about me, have defeated the enterprise. Fortune, tliou hast humbled me at last, for I am this uioment the slave of cowardly solicitude, lest in the heart...of gaining the opposite continent. But I submit." To nvail himself of n companion. Captain Billings, employed by the Russian government on an exploration... | |
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..."Fortune," exclaimed John, with his trick of play book style, "thou hast humbled me at last, for I am at this moment the slave of cowardly solicitude lest...ardent desire of gaining the opposite continent." Not knowing what to do he joined a scientific expedition in charge of one "Captain" Billings, a fellow... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 638 pages
...demon, Poverty, has travelled with me hand in hand, over half the globe, and witnessed what 1—the tale I will not unfold! Ye children of wealth and...ardent desire of gaining the opposite continent. But 1 submit.'" —pp. 303, 304. While thus detained for the winter at Yakutsk, he drew up some very just... | |
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