 ... (see the water), and looking forwards, I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I...  Annual Register - Seite 418herausgegeben von - 1801Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Mungo Park - 1815 - 302 Seiten
...as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent...things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." Park's Travels, p. 194. A short time after Mr. Park had delivered his Memoir at the Colonial... | |
 | Mungo Park, Isaaco (an African, Mungo Park's guide.) - 1815 - 373 Seiten
...as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent...things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." Park's Travels, p. 194. f See APPENDIX. No. IV. expressed his general approbation of its... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1815
...as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward, I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent...prayer to the great Ruler of all things for having thus fur crowned my endeavours with sue* cess." Park's Travels, p. 191. t See APPENDIX. No. IV. expressed... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1816
...as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent...Ruler of all things for having thus far crowned my endeavonrs with success." Park's Travels, p. 291. of the most interesting that can easily be conceived.... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818
...the eastward. He hastened to the brink, and, having drank of the water, offered up his fervent thanks to the great Ruler of all things, for having thus far crowned his endeavours with success. The circumstance of the Niger flowing towards the east was not surprizing... | |
 | 1858
...Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and, having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer...things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." But, in his progress, our traveller had difficulties to encounter of no ordinary kind. Owing... | |
 | Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) - 1828 - 291 Seiten
...as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent...things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." It must be ever an object of regret, that our traveller was not permitted to enter the city... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830
...sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to Iheemtnard. 1 hastened to the brink, and, having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent...things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." He had now indeed seen this mysterious stream, and ascertained the great fact of its flowing... | |
 | Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - 1831 - 359 Seiten
...Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all tilings, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success." Mr. Park now saw before him Sego,... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1832
...Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and, having drunk of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Vol.. III.— D Great Ruler of all things for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success/'... | |
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