 But the interest taken by the public in such enterprises seems only capable of being sustained for a certain period. Three failures had exhausted that interest, and made men indisposed to listen or inquire further into the subject. It became the cry,...  (The Edinburgh cabinet library) [ed. by D. Lardner]. - 第188页作者：Edinburgh cabinet library - 1830全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Sir John Leslie, Robert Jameson, Hugh Murray - 1832 - 946 页
...nterest, and made men indisposed to listen or inluire further into the subject. It became the cry, is he informs us, — " This Davis hath been three times employed ; why hath he not found the passige ?" The death of Secretary Walsingham occurring at this period was a severe blow to the cause,... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Robert Jameson, Hugh Murray - 1845 - 440 页
...certain period. Three failures had exhausted that interest, and made men indisposed to listen or inquire further into the subject. It became the cry, as he...Mr Sanderson still continued the steady friend of the navigator ; but, unable to obtain resources for a new attempt, he could only employ Molyneux, the... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1850 - 380 页
...navigator, he could find no one willing to send him out again. The burden of every one's song was, " This Davis hath been three times employed ; why hath he not found the passage ?" Added to which, the death of Walsingham, the queen's secretary, and the all-absorbing projected... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1851 - 402 页
...navigator, he could find no one willing to send him out again. The burden of every one's song was, " This Davis hath been three times employed; why hath he not found the passage ?" Added to which, the death of Walsingham, the queen's secretary, and the all-absorbing projected... | |
 | 1854 - 604 页
...worshipful merchants of London, until men would no longer lend him money. " This Davis," they said, " hath been three times employed ; why hath he not found the passage ?" And now comes the mournful story of Barentz, and the first recorded sufferings of human creatures... | |
 | 1854 - 796 页
...would no longer lend him money. 338 Our Portrait Gallery.— No. LXXIL [March, " This Davis (they said) hath been three times employed ; why hath he not found the passage?" And now comes the mournful story of Barentz, and the first recorded sufferings of human creatures in... | |
 | University magazine - 1854 - 790 页
...worshipful merchants of London, until men would no longer lend him money. " This Davis (they said) hath been three times employed ; why hath he not found the passage?" And now comes the mournful story of Barentz, and the first recorded sufferings of human creatures in... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Hugh Murray, Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1860 - 696 页
...period. " e Three failures had exhausted that interest, and made men indisposed to listen or inquire further into the subject. It became the cry, as he...times employed; why hath he not found the passage 2" The death of Secretary Death of Walsingham, occurring at this period, was a severe '"'••'•... | |
 | 1861 - 850 页
...winds drove him home, and the people who had shouted with hope on his departure began to exclaim, " This Davis hath been three times employed ; why hath he not found the passage?" Two great Dutchmen, Willem Barents and Jacob van Hecmskerk, carried on the search; but Davis' first... | |
 | mrs. A L Chisholm - 1874 - 332 页
...and made men indisposed to listen or inquire further into the subject. It became the cry, he tells us, ' This Davis hath been three times employed : why hath he not found the passage?' Mr. Sanderson, who had been the principal promoter of all these enterprises, still continued Davis's... | |
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