 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 pages
...passions which he could no longer command, and to give way to a torrent too impetuous to be checked. He promised solemnly to his men that he would comply...request, provided they would accompany him, and obey his command for three days longer, and if, during that time, land were not discovered, he would then abandon... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 434 pages
...passions which he could no longer command, and to give way to a torrent too impetuous to be checked. He promised solemnly to his men that he would comply...request, provided they would accompany him, and obey his command for three days longer, and if, during that time, land were not discovered, he would then abandon... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...passions which he could no longer command, and to give way to a torrent too impetuous to be checked. He promised solemnly to his men that he would comply...request, provided they would accompany him, and obey his command for three days longer, and if, during that time, land were not discovered, he would then abandon... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...passions which he could no longer command, and to give way to a torrent too impetuous to be checked. ! ! command for three days longer, and if, during that time, land were not discovered, he would then abandon... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1902 - 296 pages
...passions which he could no longer command, and to give way to a torrent too impetuous to be checked. He promised solemnly to his men that he would comply...with their request, provided they would accompany him for three days longer ; and if during that time land were not discovered, he would then abandon the... | |
 | Frederick Henry Sykes - English language - 1905 - 354 pages
...to think of employing either gentle or severe measures to quell a mutiny so general and so violent. He promised solemnly to his men that he would comply...request, provided they would accompany him and obey his command for three days longer, and if, during that time, land were not discovered he would then abandon... | |
 | Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - Readers - 1910 - 310 pages
...of no avail to employ either gentle or severe measures to quell a mutiny so general and so violent. He promised solemnly to his men that he would comply...would accompany him and obey his commands for three day longer, and if, during that time, land were not discovered, he would then abandon the enterprise,... | |
 | Stefania Buccini - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 252 pages
...expeditions of Columbus. Robertson, after quoting the sailors' discouragement from the long voyage, wrote: He promised solemnly to his men that he would comply...their request, provided they would accompany him. . . . Enraged as the sailors were, and impatient to turn their faces again towards their native country,... | |
 | English essays - 1883 - 750 pages
...the besiegers, and was actually rewarded .with a pension by Edward. Robertson states that 'Columbus promised solemnly to his men that he would comply with their request (to turn back), provided they would accompany him and obey his command for three days longer, and if... | |
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It was necessary, on all these accounts, to soothe passions which he could no longer command, and to give way to a torrent too impetuous to be checked. He promised solemnly to his men that he would comply with their request, provided they would accompany... 
