 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 דפים
...would not have discovered the south coast before us." — ' How then,' asks Captain Flinders, ' came M. Peron to advance what was so contrary to truth ? Was...over-ruling authority, and smote him to the heart ; he did not live to finish the second volume.' No, nor had he lived, could he have brought it out.... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1815 - 572 דפים
...Flinders demands, ' came M. Peron afterward to advance what was so contrary to truth ? Wa< he destitute of principle ? My answer is, that I believe his candour to have been e,qua! to his acknowledged abilities ; and that what he wrote was from over-ruling authority, and smote... | |
 | 1815 - 560 דפים
...would not have discovered the south coast before us." — ' How then,' asks Captain Flinders, ' came M. Peron to advance what was so contrary to truth ? Was...his acknowledged abilities ; and that what he wrote *as from over-ruling authority, and smote him to the heart ; he did not live to finish the second volume.'... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 1843 - 456 דפים
...the south coast hefore us." " How then," asks Captain Flinders, " came M. Pe'ron to advance what is so contrary to truth ! Was he a man destitute of all...from overruling authority, and smote him to the heart ; he did not live to finish the second volume. It is further manifest that, had he lived, he could... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - 1865 - 710 דפים
...French officers themselves, generally and individually, if such were not the case. How then came M. Peron to advance what was so contrary to truth ? Was...over-ruling authority, and smote him to the heart ; he did not live to finish the second volume. " The motive for this aggression I do not pretend to... | |
 | William Howitt - 1865 - 450 דפים
...historian of the voyage of Le Geographe, from the charge of this' wholesale plagiarism. He says, " I believe his candour to have been equal to his acknowledged...overruling authority, and smote him to the heart. He did not live to finish the second volume." This audacious aggression served Napoleon as little as... | |
 | Royal Society of Tasmania - 1889 - 550 דפים
...his discovery. Flinders generously acquits Peron of blame in the matter, and says that he believes his candour to have been equal to his acknowledged...overruling authority, and smote him to the heart. He attributes the suppressions in Peron's work, and his own treatment, to the secret instructions of... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1893 - 420 דפים
...his published work, " Account of a Voyage to Terra Australia," he says, " How, then, came Monsieur Peron to advance what was so contrary to truth ? Was...acknowledged abilities, and that what he wrote was from an overruling authority, and smote him to the heart, for he did not live to print his second volume."... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1893 - 412 דפים
...his published work, " Account of a Voyage to Terra Australis," he says, " How, then, came Monsieur Peron to advance what was so contrary to truth ? Was...acknowledged abilities, and that what he wrote was from an overruling authority, and smote him to the heart, for he did not live to print his second volume."... | |
 | James Backhouse Walker - 1902 - 322 דפים
...generously acquits Flinders' Voy., ii., p. 470. Peron of blame in the matter, and says that he believes his candour to have been equal to his acknowledged...overruling authority, and smote him to the heart. He attributes the suppressions in Peron's work, and his own treatment, to the secret instructions of... | |
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How then came M. Peron to advance what was so contrary to truth? Was he a man destitute of all principle? My answer is, that I believe his candour to have been equal to his acknowledged abilities; and that what he wrote was from over-ruling authority,... 
