...Their opening lines struck a new note as they proclaimed that 'nothing can redound more to the honor of this Nation as a Maritime Power, to the dignity...of the Trade and Navigation thereof, than to make Discoveries of Countries hitherto unknown.'58 The body of the instructions, however, contained little...

...Their opening lines struck a new note as they proclaimed that 'nothing can redound more to the honor of this Nation as a Maritime Power, to the dignity...of the Trade and Navigation thereof, than to make Discoveries of Countries hitherto unknown . . .'^ The body of the instructions, however, contained...

...([Harris] Campbell 1764, i:iv). Hawkesworth himself picks up the patriot theme: "Nothing can redound to the honour of this nation, as a maritime power,...of the trade and navigation thereof, than to make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown" (Hawkesworth 1773, i:i). And in the authoritative retrospect...

...British Admiralty's assumption that, as secretly it told Byron, 'nothing can redound more to the honor of this Nation as a Maritime Power, to the dignity...of the Trade and Navigation thereof, than to make Discoveries of Countries hitherto unknown, and to attain a perfect Knowledge of the distant parts of...

...Byron's instructions struck a new note as they proclaimed that 'nothing can redound more to the honor of this Nation as a Maritime Power, to the dignity...of the Trade and Navigation thereof, than to make Discoveries of Countries hitherto unknown'. The sentiments were those of Arthur Dobbs and John Campbell,...

...who was despatched to the Pacific in that year, that duty is recognised in a very noble passage : — Whereas nothing can redound more to the honour of...advancement of the trade and navigation thereof than to make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown ; and whereas there is reason to believe that lands and islands...

...ran the instructions of their commander, Commodore Byron,—" nothing can redound more to the honor of this nation as a maritime power, to the dignity...of the trade and navigation thereof, than to make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown." Byron himself hardly sailed beyond Cape Horn; hut three...

...When Commodore Byron's instructions were drawn up in 1764, the government of that day declared that "nothing can redound more to the honour of this nation,...crown of Great Britain, and to the advancement of its trade and navigation, than to make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown." This noble policy...