 | English literature - 1773 - 740 pages
...arc dated the 1 7th of June in that year. " Whereas nothing can redound more to the honour of this nation as a maritime power, to the dignity of the...of the trade and navigation thereof, than to make difcoveries of coun* tries hitherto unknown ; and whereas there is reafon to believe, that lands and... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...of June, 1764, commence as follows : — " Whereas nothing can redound " more to the honour of this nation as a maritime " power, to the dignity of the...to make discoveries " of countries hitherto unknown — ." The main scope for such discoveries in the reign, and by the wish, of George the Third, was... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1851 - 572 pages
..." Whereas nothing can redound OF DIS- " more to the i]0nour Of this nation as a maritime COVEKY. " power, to the dignity of the Crown of Great " Britain,...to make discoveries " of countries hitherto unknown — ." The main scope for such discoveries in the reign, and by the wish, of George the Third, was... | |
 | John Fincham - Naval architecture - 1851 - 632 pages
...it was expressed in the instructions given to commodore Byron, who commanded the first expedition, " there is reason to believe that lands and islands of great extent, hitherto uuvisited by any European power, may be found in the Atlantic Ocean, between the Cape of Good Hope... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...of June, 1764, commence as follows : — "Whereas nothing can " redound more to the honour of this nation as a maritime " power, to the dignity of the...to make discoveries of countries hitherto " unknown — ." The main scope for such discoveries in the reign, and by the wish, of George the Third, was... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...of June, 1764, commence as follows : — " Whereas nothing can " redound more to the honour of this nation as a maritime " power, to the dignity of the...to make discoveries of countries hitherto " unknown — ." The main scope for such discoveries in the reign, and by the wish, of George the Third, was... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 418 pages
...17th of June, 1764, commence as follows : — " Whereas nothing can redound more to the honour of this nation as a maritime ' power, to the dignity of the...to make discoveries of countries hitherto ' unknown — ." The main scope for such discoveries in the reign, and 1 by the wish, of George the Third, was... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 420 pages
...17th of June, 1764, commence as follows: — "Whereas nothing can " redound more to the honour of this nation as a maritime " power, to the dignity of the...to make discoveries of countries hitherto " unknown — ." The main scope for such discoveries in the reign, and by the wish, of George the Third, was... | |
 | Criticism - 1881 - 868 pages
...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...to make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown." The passion for opening up new lands and sailing over seas strangers to our navies, was no mere boyish... | |
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redound more to the honour of this nation as a maritime " power, to the dignity of the Crown of Great Britain, " and to the advancement of the trade and navigation " thereof than to make discoveries of countries hitherto 
