 | Edmund Burke - History - 1794 - 610 pages
...all the ftations belonging to a feaman, from an apprentice boy in the coal trade, to a Poft Captain in the Royal Navy, he has had no opportunity of cultivating letters. After this account of myfelf, the Public malt not expect from me the elegance of a fine writer, or the plaufibility of a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1779 - 734 pages
...all the ftations belonging to a leaman, from an apprentice boy in the coal trade, to a Poft Captain in the Royal Navy, he has had no opportunity of cultivating letters. After this account of myfelf, the Public muft not expeft from me the elegance of a fine writer, or the plaufibility of a... | |
 | History - 1794 - 614 pages
...all the fta'ñons belonging to a feaman, from an apprentice boy in the coal trade, to a Poft Captain in the Royal Navy, he has had no opportunity of cultivating letters. After this account of myfelf, the Peblic muft not expeft from me the filegance of a fine writer, or the plaufibility of a... | |
 | History - 1805 - 608 pages
...though, with the assistance of a few good friends, he has passed through all the stations belonging to a seaman, from an apprentice boy in the coal trade, to a Post Captain in the Royal Navy, he has had no opportunity of cultivating letters. After this account... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Voyages and travels - 1815 - 542 pages
...though, with the assistance of a few good friends, he has passed through all the stations belonging to a seaman, from an apprentice boy in the coal trade,...16 The opinion stated in the memoir of Cook, in the Biograpkia Britannica, as to his appearance in the character of an author, perfectly concurs with what... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 pages
...though, with the assistance of a few nod friends, be bas passed through all the stations belong* .г,? to a seaman, from an apprentice boy in the coal trade, to a post-captain in the royal »aw, he lias had no opportnE.:y of cnJüvating letters. After this account of шум-if, the public... | |
 | James Cook - Oceania - 1821 - 386 pages
...though, with the assistance of a few good friends, he has passed through all the stations belonging to a seaman, from an apprentice boy in the coal trade, to a post captain in the Royal Navy, he has had no opportunity of cultivating letters. After this account... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Voyages and travels - 1824 - 530 pages
...has passed through all the stations belonging to a seaman, from an apprentice boy in the coal trajle, to a post-captain in the royal navy, he has had no...cultivating letters. After this account of myself, the publip M The opinion stated in the memoir of Cook, in the Biographia Britannica, as to his appearance... | |
 | James Cook - 1837 - 232 pages
...few good friends, he had passed from all the stations belonging to a seaman, from an apprentice-boy in the coal- trade to a post-captain in the royal navy, he had had no opportunity of cultivating letters." Omai, the native of Ulietea, whom Captain Furneaux... | |
 | James Cook - Oceania - 1842 - 636 pages
...all the stations belonging to a seaman, from an apprentice boy in the coal trade, to a post captain in the Royal Navy, he has had no opportunity of cultivating...letters. After this account of myself, the public must not expect from me the elegance of a fine writer, or the plausibility of a professed book-maker;... | |
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... it is the production of a man, who has not had the advantage of much school education, but who has been constantly at sea from his youth; and though, with the assistance of a few good friends, he has passed through all the stations belonging to a... 
