 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1921 - 624 pages
...set forth. At the close of his discourse Sir Humphrey exclaims : " He is not worthy to live at all who for fear or danger of death shunneth his country's service or Ms own honor, since death is inevitable, and the fame of virtue immortal." The advocacy of Sir Humphrey... | |
 | John Buchan - 1923 - 356 pages
...Gilbert wrote in the latter part of the sixteenth century, " 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." Most assuredly our Elizabethan sailors did not shun their " country's service," and Elizabeth herself... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1987 - 420 pages
...and braved death — deeming, as said one of their company, that "he is not worthy to live at all, who, for fear or danger of death, shunneth his country's...death is inevitable and the fame of virtue immortal." If these were the fervors of enthusiasm, it was an enthusiasm kindled and fed by the holy flame that... | |
 | Shirley Samuels - 1992 - 358 pages
...and braved death — deeming, as said one of their company, that "he is not worthy to live at all, who, for fear or danger of death, shunneth his country's...— since death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal." If these were the fervors of enthusiasm, it was an enthusiasm kindled and fed by the... | |
 | Dana D. Nelson - 1994 - 209 pages
...hardship, and braved death —deeming, as said one of their company, 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—since death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal." If these were the fervors of... | |
 | Robert Falcon Scott - 2005 - 604 pages
...traffic had animated the design.' — MILTON.* 'He is not worthy to live at all, who, for fear and danger of death shunneth his country's service or...death is inevitable and the fame of virtue immortal.' — SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT.* There is no part of the world that can not be reached by man. When the 'can... | |
 | Edmund James Peck - 2006 - 513 pages
...discovery, remarked - 'He is not worthy to live at all (let us note the words) who for fear, or (for) danger of death shunneth his country's service, or...death is inevitable, and the fame of virtue immortal.' It was the same noble God-fearing man who when returning home across the mighty Atlantic in a little... | |
 | 452 pages
...conclusion of his discourse, he writes : ' 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.' This discourse has the true ring of a scholarly and patriotic Englishman, and there is much freshness... | |
 | 1919 - 528 pages
...as, indeed, ho wrote, " that man not worthy to live at all who for fear of danger or death ehunneth his country's service or his own honour, since Death is inevitable and the fame of Virtue immortal." There are few who will dissent from Sir Sidney Leo's considered judgment that Raleigh, as an explorer... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1831 - 632 pages
...deeming, as said one of their company, that " he is not worthy to live at all who, for fear of danger or of death, shunneth his country's service or his own honour — since death is inevitable, but the fame of virtue immortal." Their " plain-living aud high-thinking," their toil and carefulness,... | |
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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. 
