 | 1855 - 1504 pages
...we did approach within hearing, ' We are ns near to heaven by sea as by land,' reiterating the some speech, well beseeming a soldier resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify that he was. The sumo Monday night, about twelve of the clock, or not long after, the frigate being... | |
 | David B. Quinn - 1990 - 492 pages
...gallantly. Hayes's last picture of Gilbert, as seen from the Golden Hind is a well-known and memorable one: "the General sitting abaft with a book in his hand,...hearing,) 'We are as near to heaven by sea as by land'." The book was almost certainly Sir Thomas More's Utopia, where the phrase, or one very near it, occurs;... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 132 pages
...just before he was swallowed up in the deep, he cried out to his comrades in the Hind, as they came within hearing, "We are as near to Heaven by sea as by land ."" I saw that it would not be easy to realize. Cape Cod, 96-97 The sea-shore is a sort of neutral... | |
 | Jonathan P. A. Sell - 2006 - 236 pages
...reader to do so. And then comes the climax: Monday, the 9 of September, in the afternoon, the frigate was near cast away, oppressed by waves, yet at that...resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was. (4041) This is pure theatre emerging from the unpromising context of a dated entry in the ship's log.... | |
 | Charles W. Eliot - 2006 - 405 pages
...more tempest; the same is usual in storms. Monday, the 9. of September, in the afternoon, the frigate was near cast away, oppressed by waves, yet at that...resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was. The same Monday night, about twelve of the clock, or not long after, the frigate being ahead of us... | |
 | Prof. Y. Krishna Murthy - 2008 - 188 pages
...signs of joy, the general, sitting about with a book in his hand, cried unto us in the 'Hinde' so often as we did approach within hearing, 'we are as near...sea as by land' 'reiterating the same speech, well be seeming a soldier resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify that he was. The same Monday night,... | |
 | S. L. Edwards - 1953 - 220 pages
...more tempest; the same is usual in storms. Monday, the 9th of September, in the afternoon, the frigate was near cast away, oppressed by waves, yet at that...resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was. The same Monday night, about twelve of the clock, or not long after, the frigate being ahead of us... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble - 1930 - 270 pages
...of joy, the General, sitting abaft with a book in his hand, cried out unto us in the Hinde so often as we did approach within hearing, "We are as near...soldier resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify that he was. The same Monday night, about twelve of the clock, or not long after, the frigate being... | |
 | William Henry Hudson, Irwin Scofield Guernsey - 1922 - 736 pages
...that time recovered ; and giving forth signs of joy the general [Gilbert], sitting abaft with a book 1 in his hand, cried out to us in the Hind (so oft as...by sea as by land ' ; reiterating the same speech, well-beseeming a soldier, resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was. The same Monday night,... | |
 | 452 pages
...These were the last words of this good Englishman before he went down. A speech, says the narrator, 'well beseeming a soldier resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was.' Meanwhile, the valiant Martin Frobisher had also been battling with the icy approaches to the north-west,... | |
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We are as near to heaven by sea as by land' — reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a soldier, resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was. 
