 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1859 - 556 strani
...sail for the far north-west. We see them now, as they told us so, and with glistening eye propheaied their own success. Gallant hearts ! they now sleep...too glad to avail themselves of the experience of Franklin; but Lord Haddington, then First Lord, with that kindness which ever distinguished him, suggested... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1877 - 364 strani
...disagreeable treatment from the then Secretary for the Colonies. "Directly it was known," says Osborn, "that he would go if asked, the Admiralty were, of...the experience of such a man; but Lord Haddington, with that kindness which ever distinguished him, suggested that Franklin might well rest at home on... | |
 | Richard Perry - 1882 - 856 strani
...heard to remark that he thought it due to him as the senior Arctic explorer of England. ' As soon as it was known that he would go if asked, the admiralty...the experience of such a man; but Lord Haddington, with that kindness which ever distinguished him, suggested that Franklin might well rest at home on... | |
 | Richard Perry - 1883 - 866 strani
...heard to remark that he thought it due to him as the senior Arctic explorer of England. ' As soon as it was known that he would go if asked, the admiralty...the experience of such a man ; but Lord Haddington, with that kindness which ever distinguished him, suggested that Franklin might well rest at home on... | |
 | 1860 - 856 strani
...sailors, success, forgetful of past suffering, he claimed mostly from the northern seaports." Lore iir- right to command the latest, as he had led the earliest,...expeditions. Directly it was known that he would go if already it is apparent, as much as duty, bound together the gallant souls on board the Erebus and Terror.... | |
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Land : his sensitive and generous spirit chafed under the unmerited treatment he had experienced from the then Secretary of State for the Colonies, and sick of civil employment, he naturally turned again to his profession, as a better field for the ability... 