 | Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 504 pages
...wa» " themost active and efficacious promoter" of the F.nglish settlements in America ; and to him " England is more indebted for its American possessions than to any man of that age." Robertson, book ix, 55, where there i» a sketch of his character. He published his fir^t volume of... | |
 | William Robertson - 1809 - 280 pages
...it, as greatly increased the desire of planting it. The most active and efficacions promoter of this was Richard Hakluyt, prebendary of Westminster, to...American possessions than to any man of that age. Formed under a kinsman of the same name, eminent for naval and commercial knowledge, he imbibed a similar... | |
 | William Robertson - 1811 - 502 pages
...it, as greatly increased the desire of planting it. The most active and efficacious promoter of this was Richard Hakluyt, prebendary of Westminster, to...American possessions than to any man of that age. Formed under a kinsman of the same name, eminent for naval and commercial knowledge, he imbibed a similar... | |
 | William Robertson - 1821 - 614 pages
...greatly increased the desire of planting it. § XXX. The most active and efficacious promoter of this was Richard Hakluyt, prebendary of Westminster, to...American possessions than to any man of that age. Formed under a kinsman of the same name, eminent for naval and commercial knowledge, he imbibed a similar... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 480 pages
...as greatly in- ' creased the desire of planting it. The most active and efficacious promoter of this was Richard Hakluyt, prebendary of Westminster, to...American possessions than to any man of that age. Formed of that age. under a kinsman of the same name, eminent for naval and commercial knowledge, he... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 614 pages
...was " the most active and efficacious promoter " of the English settlements in America ; and to him " England is more indebted for its American possessions than to any man of that age." Rolicrtson, b. 9, where there is a sketch of his character. He published his first volume of Voyages... | |
 | William Robertson - 1837 - 632 pages
...climates, lay before them. The richness of its virgin The most active and efficacious promoter ot this was Richard Hakluyt, prebendary of Westminster, to...American possessions than to any man of that age. Formed under a kinsman of the same name, eminent for naval and commercial knowledge, he imbibed a similar... | |
 | William Strachey - 1849 - 86 pages
....Richard Hakluyt, the "presidium et dulce decus" of our society, to whom, as Robertson justly remarks, " England is more indebted for its American possessions than to any man of that age", used influential arguments with various gentlemen of condition, to induce them to present a petition... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1872 - 438 pages
...divided the Association into a London Company, formed of members who chiefly resided in the metro1 ' Richard Hakluyt, prebendary of Westminster, to whom...American possessions than to any man of that age.' — Robertson's History of America, book ix. polls, and into a Plymouth Company, formed of the knights,... | |
 | 1877 - 508 pages
...The most active and efficacious promoter of this (the colonization of Virginia) wns Kichard Hakluyt, to whom England is more indebted for its American possessions than to any other man of that age."— (AJÍ. <>J Am., iv. 171. 10th Edit.) As is well known, he was the confidential... | |
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Westminster, to whom England is more indebted for its American possessions than to any man of that age. 
