 | David Lloyd - Favorites, Royal - 1766 - 614 pages
...adventured .rk' 'his dwn"perfon therein, being the beft born " Englifhmari that ever hazarded himfelf in that " kind. His fleet may be faid to be bound for .^ no other harbour bui the port of honour, tho' ," touching at the port of profit in paflage there& unto ; I fay, touching,... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 292 pages
...he had disbursed for the purposes of his voyage. " His fleet," however, says Lloyd, " was bound to no other harbour but the port of honour, though touching at the port of profit in passage thereunto." Such is the outline of his maritime story. At home, his politeness, his courage... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 614 pages
...therein, heing the best-born Englishman that ever hazarded himself in that kind. His fleet may be said to be bound for no other harbour but the port of honour, though touching at the port of profit in passage thereunto ; I say touching, whose design was not to enrich himself but impoverish the enemy.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1916 - 790 pages
...the seamen he fathered and gloried in we may take the delightful words of Fuller and see them as ' bound for no other harbour but the Port of Honour, though touching at the Port of Profit in passage thereunto.' E. HALLAM MOORHOUSE. THE OLD CONTEMPTIBLES : FIGHTING STRENGTH. BY BOYD CABLE.... | |
 | Arthur Hamilton Norway - Yorkshire (England) - 1899 - 430 pages
...Spaniards were scattered north up channel like a flock of sheep. " His fleet," says Fuller, " may he said to be bound for no other harbour but the Port of Honour, XVI GHOSTS 335 though touching at the Port of Profit in passage thereunto." I know not which of those... | |
 | Esther Meynell - Admirals - 1910 - 382 pages
...Inquisition, and private gain, all pointed the sea road. In Fuller's fine old phrase, these seamen were " bound for no other harbour but the Port of Honour, though touching at the Port of Profit in passage thereunto." Spanish treachery and English courage were both vividly set forth at San Juan de... | |
 | George Charles Williamson - Voyages and travels - 1920 - 396 pages
...himself in that kinde," and goes on, in Fuller's delightful phrase, to say "that his fleet may be said to be bound for no other harbour but the Port of Honour though touching at the Port of Profit in passage thereunto, I say, touching, whose design was not to enrich himself but empoverish the enemy."... | |
 | Foster Watson - 1924 - 116 pages
...of all those occupations that depend on the same." Thomas Fuller said that Hakluyt " sees his seamen bound for no other harbour but the port of Honour, though touching at the port of Profit in passage thereunto." Hakluyt would send English criminals to the newfound lands, to employ them on sawing... | |
 | Kenneth R. Andrews - 326 pages
...South Seas he aimed as much for fame and honour. As Fuller picturesquely put it, 'his fleet may be said to be bound for no other harbour but the port of honour, though touching at the port of profit in passage thereunto.' However, since there appeared to be some contradiction between the pursuit of honour... | |
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His fleet may be said to be bound for no other harbour but the port of honour, though touching at the port of profit in passage thereunto ; I say touching, whose design was not to enrich himself but impoverish the enemy. 