 | John Charnock - 1796 - 454 pages
...reported, that our honeft undeligning feaman was frequently a dupe at play : and it was wittily obferved of him, that he had been round the world, but never in it. No performance ever met with a more favourable reception than lord Anfon's Voyage round the World.... | |
 | John Charnock - 1796 - 452 pages
...reported, that pur honeft undefigning feaman w,as frequently a dupe at play : and it was wittily obferved of him, that he had been round the world, but never in it. No performance ever met with a more favourable reception than lord Anfon's Voyage round the World.... | |
 | 1798 - 666 pages
...reported, that our honeft undefigning feaman was frequently a dupe at play : and it was wittily obferved of him, that he had been round the world, but never in it. No performance ever met with a more favourable reception than " Lord Anfon's Voyage round the World... | |
 | Stephen Jones - 1805 - 470 pages
...reported, that our honest undeiigning seaman was frequently a Uupe at play ; and it was wittily observed of him, that he had been round the 'world, but never in it. See ROBINS, ANSTIS (JOHN) an able herald and antiquary, and very eminent writer on heraldic subjeâ*,... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 780 pages
...reported, that our honest undesigning seaman was frequently a dupe at play : and it was wittily observed of him, that he had been round the world but never in it. No performance ever met with a more favourable reception than Lord Anson's Voyage round the World;"... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...dear-earned wealth, and made him the ridicule of his more cunning associates. It was often remarked of him, " that he had been round the world, but never in it." He was too sincere to be fashionably polished, too ingenuous to profess what he did not feel; the artful preyed... | |
 | 1819 - 196 pages
...Anson was calm, cool, and unassuming ; but, being frequently a dupe at play, it was wittily observed of him, " that he had been round the world, but never in it." Of lord Anson's voyage round the world, four large impressions were sold off in a twelvemonth, and... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1838 - 672 pages
...period new and obscure, nor had he the advantage of distinguished talents. After his expedition, it used to be said of him that he had been round the...; slow in business, and sparing of speech. But he C II A P. had undaunted bravery, steady application, and cool , _^. judgment; he punctually followed... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1838 - 680 pages
...period new and obscure, nor had he the advantage of distinguished talents. After his expedition, it used to be said of him that he had been round the...; slow in business, and sparing of speech. But he CHAP. had undaunted bravery, steady application, and cool ._' judgment; he punctually followed his... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1839 - 646 pages
...period new and obscure, nor had he the advantage of distinguished talents. After his expedition, it used to be said of him that he had been round the...judgment; he punctually followed his instructions, CHAP, and zealously discharged his duty ; and by these . XXII. qualities — qualities within the attainment... | |
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... first, and afterwards Lord Anson, deserves to be held forth as a model to British seamen of what may be accomplished by industry, by courage, by love of their profession. He was born of a family at that period new and obscure, nor had he the advantage... 
