 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1804 - 608 pages
...death were a continual commentary on his own generous maxim, That he is not ivorthy to live at all, who for fear or danger of death shunneth his country's...since death is inevitable, and the fame of virtue immortal."i * After the death of Sir H. Gilbert's father, his mother married Walter Raleigh of Fardel,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 pages
...only the precept of Sir Humphrey, but his rule of conduct, " That he is not worthy to live at all, who, for fear or danger of death, shunneth his country's service, or his own honour ; for death is inevitable, and fame immortal." In consonance with this noble maxim, but exercising... | |
 | 1832 - 478 pages
...dcem.ng, as said one of their company, that " he is not worthy to live at all, who, for fear of danger or death, shunneth his country's service or his own honour...death is inevitable, and the fame of virtue immortal." If these were the fervours of enthusiasm, it was an enthusiasm kindled and fed by the holy flame that... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...town of St. Louis, 1737. He is not worthy to live at all, who for fear or danger of death sliunncth his country's service, or his own honour ; since death is inevitable, and the fame of virtue immortal. Gilbert'* Maxim. 603 X. SEPTEMBER. Broke from the fetters of hi> native land. Devoting shame and vengeance... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1842 - 276 pages
...deeming, as said one of their company, that " he is not worthy to live at all, who, for fear of danger or- death, shunneth his country's service or his own honour,...death is inevitable, and the fame of virtue immortal." If these were the fervours of enthusiasm, it was an enthusiasm kindled and fed by the holy flame that... | |
 | John Barrow - 1845 - 540 pages
...close of his discourse on the North-west Passage, Sir Humphrey says, " He is not worthy to live at all, who, for fear or danger of death, shunneth his country's...is inevitable, and the fame of virtue immortal."* It may safely be observed, that the exertions and adventures of the Northern Worthies were not made... | |
 | 1919 - 424 pages
...who believed, as, indeed, he wrote, " that man not worthy to live at all who for fear of danger or death shunneth his country's service or his own honour,...Death is inevitable and the fame of Virtue immortal." There are few who will dissent from Sir Sidney Lee's considered judgment that Raleigh, as an explorer... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1855 - 738 pages
...enterprise. He perished in the pursuance of his own exalted maxim: "That he is not worthy to live at all, who, for fear or danger of death, shunneth his country's service, or his own honor; for death is inevitable and fame immortal." Undismayed by the loss of his brother, and the misfortunes... | |
 | M. A. Thomson - 1856 - 318 pages
...only the precept of Sir Humphrey, but his rule of conduct, " That he is not worthy to live at all, who, for fear or danger of death, shunneth his country's service, or his own honor ; for death is inevitable, and fame immortal." In consonance with this noble maxim, but exercising... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1863 - 554 pages
...enterprise. He perished in the pursuance of his own exalted maxim: 'That he is not worthy to live at all, who, for fear or danger of death, shunneth his country's service or his own honor; for death is inevitable and fame immortal.'"* * Discoverers, ike., of America. CHAPTER !V. THE... | |
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... he is not worthy to live at all, who, for fear or danger of death, shunneth his country's service, or his own honour — since death is inevitable and the fame of virtue immortal. 
