| Sir Edward Cust - 1862 - 414 Seiten
...Annals of the Wars " do not seem to inelnde a refereuce to voyages for " maritime diseovery," yet as " nothing can redound more to the honour of this nation as a maritime power, to the dignity of the erown of Great Britain, and to the advaneement of its trade and navigation than to make diseoveries... | |
| 1881 - 868 Seiten
...instructions under which Captain Cook sailed declared 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 passion for opening up new lands and sailing over seas... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1881 - 864 Seiten
...instructions under which Captain Cook sailed declared 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 passion for opening up new lands and sailing over seas... | |
| John Richard Green - 1881 - 512 Seiten
...Nothing," 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 ; but three... | |
| John Richard Green - 1882 - 504 Seiten
...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 ; but three... | |
| 1899 - 786 Seiten
...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... | |
| John Richard Green - 1900 - 552 Seiten
...discovery to the Straits of Magellan. " Nothing," ran the instructions of their commander, Commodore Byron, "nothing can redound more to the honour of this nation...of the trade and navigation thereof, than to make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown." Byron himself hardly sailed beyond Cape Horn ; but three... | |
| Horace S. Lyman - 1903 - 450 Seiten
...spirit of England, the following is cited from his instructions: " Nothing can redound more to the honor of this nation as a maritime power, to the dignity of the cause of Great Britain, and to the advancement of the trade and navigation thereof, than to make the... | |
| Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1921 - 624 Seiten
...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... | |
| Robert Headland - 1984 - 316 Seiten
...passage in the instructions to Commodore Byron dated 17 June 1764, during the reign of King George III. Whereas nothing can redound more to the honour of this nation as maritime power, to the dignety of the Crown of Great Britain, and to the advancement of trade and navigation... | |
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