 | James Bruce - Egypt - 1813 - 534 pages
...of geography. Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies ; and every comparison was leading nearer and...triumph. I was but a few minutes arrived at the sources oi the Nile, through numberless dangers and sufferings, the least of which would have overwhelmed me,... | |
 | England - 1864 - 814 pages
...of geography. Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies ; and every comparison was leading nearer and...— suggested what depressed my shortlived triumph." It would have depressed it still more had he known that he was not in the place he sought. Where the... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...of geography. Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies ; and every comparison was leading nearer and...presumption, when the place itself where I stood, the objects of my vain glory, suggested what depressed my short-lived triumph. I was but a few minutes... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...my own mind over kings and their armies ; and every comparison was leading nearer and nearer to the presumption, when the place itself where I stood, the object of my vain glory, suggested what depressed my short-lived triumphs. I was but a few minutes arrived at the... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - Ethiopia - 1830 - 560 pages
...of geography. Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies! and every comparison was leading nearer -and...when the place itself where I stood, the object of my vain glory, suggested what depressed my shortlived triumph. I was but a few minutes arrived at the... | |
 | Africa - 1831 - 320 pages
...of geography. Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies ! and every comparison was leading nearer and...when the place itself where I stood, the object of my vain glory, suggested what depressed my short lived triumph. I was but a few minutes arrived at the... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Explorers - 1832 - 446 pages
...followed them all. Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here in my own mind over kings and their armies ; and every comparison was leading nearer and...stood, the object of my vainglory, suggested what deX pressed my short-lived triumph. I was but a few minutes arrived at the sources of the Nile, through... | |
 | 1832 - 586 pages
...Briton, I triumphed here in my own mind, over kings and their armies. Every comparison was leading me nearer and nearer to presumption, when the place itself where I stood, the object of my vain glory, suggested what put an end to my short-lived triumph. 1 had, but a few moments, arrived... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Egypt - 1833 - 326 pages
...of geography. Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies ; and every comparison was leading nearer and nearer to presumption, when the place where I stood, the object of my vainglory, suggested what depressed my shortlived triumph." But, whatever... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1835 - 592 pages
...of geography. Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies ! and every comparison was leading nearer and...when the place itself where I stood, the object of my vain glory, suggested what depressed my shortlived triumph. I was but a few minutes arrived at the... | |
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... stain upon the enterprise and abilities of mankind, or adding this desideratum for the encouragement of geography. Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies; and every comparison was leading nearer... 
