| John Barrow - 1818 - 450 pągines
...intelligible. " Gentle reader," he thus begins, " expect not heere any florishing phrases or eloquent tearmes; for this child of mine, begot in the north-west's...not able to digest the sweet milke of Rethorick," &c. He leaves England, however, highly satisfied both with himself and with his equipment. " I was... | |
| 1859 - 722 pągines
...any florishing phrases or eloquent tearmes ; for this child of mine, begot in the North- West's cola clime, (where they breed no schollers,) is not able to digest the sweet milke of Rethorick," Ac. He passed the Orkneys, Cape Farewell, Lumley Island, (now Marble Island,) Dun Fox Island, a group... | |
| John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1850 - 380 pągines
...addressing his reader thus: "Gentle reader, — expect not heere any florishing phrases or eloquent tearmes, for this child of mine, begot in the north-west's...is not able to digest the sweet milke of Rethorick, &c. " The ship of his Majesties was (of my own chusing, and the best for condition and quality, especially... | |
| John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1851 - 402 pągines
...addressing his reader thus: "Gentle reader,—expect not heere any florishing phrases or eloquent tearmes, for this child of mine, begot in the north-west's...is not able to digest the sweet milke of Rethorick, &c. " The ship of his Majesties was (of my own chusing, and the best for condition and quality, especially... | |
| Arctic discovery - 1799 - 424 pągines
...his story thus : — " Gentle reader, expect not heere any flourishing phrases or eloquent tearmes ; for this child of mine, begot in the north-west's...not able to digest the sweet milke of rethorick." And, of course, he proceeds to cram his book with more " flourishing phrases " than any other book... | |
| 1878 - 524 pągines
...not heere any florishing Phrases or Eloquent tearmes, for this child of mine begot in the North-wests cold clime (where they breed no Schollers) is not able to digest the sweet milke of Rethorick," &c. He relates at some length what 1ms been done by his predecessors, and gives his ideas as to what... | |
| Reginald Walter Corlass - 1879 - 188 pągines
..." Gentle reader," he thus begins, " expect not heere any flourishing phrases or eloquent tearmes ! for this child of mine, begot in the north-west's...not able to digest the sweet milke of Rethorick." Lowndes, in his " Bibliographer's Manual," says, " This treatise contains many important facts and... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1909 - 608 pągines
...not heere florishing Phrases or Eloquent tearmes ; for this child of mine, begot in the North- West's cold Clime (where they breed no Schollers), is not able to digest the sweet milke of Bhethorick, that's food for them.' He goes on to deride the ' mathematical! sea-man,' who, he avers,... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1910 - 688 pągines
...business of the sea. "Gentle Reader," he says, "expect not heere florishing Phrases or Eloquent tearmes; for this child of mine, begot in the NorthWest's cold...Schollers), is not able to digest the sweet milke of Rhethorick, that's food for them." He goes on to deride the "mathematicall sea-man," who, he avers,... | |
| New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1995 - 470 pągines
...not heere any florishing Phrases or Eloquent tearmes, for this child of mine begot in the North-wests cold clime (where they breed no Schollers) is not able to digest the sweet milke of Rethorick," &c. He relates at some length what has been done by his predecessors, and gives his ideas as to what... | |
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