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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honourable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. Patience is a voluntary and sustained endurance, for the sake of what is honourable or advantageous, of difficult and painful labours. Perseverance is a steady and lasting persistence in a well-considered principle.
It was the work of this brutal ruffian whom he had the misfortune to employ." "I must take the view, your Grace, that when a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it." "Morally, Mr. Holmes. No doubt you are right. But surely not in the eyes of the law.
Friendly offices. Xerxes's throne. His scribes. Summary punishment. Speech of Themistocles. He embarks his men. Excitement and confusion. Commencement of the battle. Fury of the conflict. Modern naval battles. Observations of Xerxes. Artemisia. Enemies of Artemisia. Her quarrel with Damasithymus. Stratagem of Artemisia. She attacks Damasithymus. Artemisia kills Damasithymus.
Chance has made an artisan economical, chance has favored him with forethought, he has been able to look forward, has met with a wife and found himself a father, and, after some years of hard privation, he embarks in some little draper's business, hires a shop. If neither sickness nor vice blocks his way if he has prospered there is the sketch of this normal life.
Commencement of his Career. His Education. Visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Guernsey. Saumarez decides for the Navy. Is put on the Soleby's books. School at London. Embarks in the Montreal. Winchelsea, Pembroke, Levant. Smyrna. Returns home. Passes for Lieutenant. Embarks in the Bristol. Proposal to leave the Navy. Attack on Fort Sullivan. Gallant Conduct. Is made Lieutenant.
"If any man ask me what are the benefits of arbitrary power to the subject, I answer these two, poverty and subjection" But to an ambitious monarch unlimited power is a necessity; unless he can count upon instant obedience to his will, he only courts defeat if he embarks in schemes of aggression and conquest.
Augustine Apparently amicable overtures Oglethorpe goes to Savannah to hold a conference with a Committee from South Carolina respecting trade with the Indians Insolent demand of the Spaniards Oglethorpe embarks for England,
The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.
Yet, in the fluctuations of mercantile speculation, there is something captivating to the adventurer, even independent of the hope of gain. He who embarks on that fickle sea, requires to possess the skill of the pilot and the fortitude of the navigator, and after all may be wrecked and lost, unless the gales of fortune breathe in his favour.
He never directly refers to it in his works: indeed, after Athens, the relics of Ephesus are things but of small import, especially to an imagination which, like that of the poet, required the action of living characters to awaken its dormant sympathies. Embarks for Constantinople Touches at Tenedos Visits Alexandria Trees The Trojan Plain Swims the Hellespont Arrival at Constantinople
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