Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I FROM MR. WILLIAMS'S BIRTH UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER II FROM HIS DEPARTURE UNTIL THE TERMINATION OF HIS FIRST YEAR'S RESIDENCE AT RAIATEA
- CHAPTER III FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS SECOND YEAR's LABOURS AT RAIATEA UNTIL THE CLOSE OF 1822
- CHAPTER IV FROM HIS FIRST, UNTIL HIS SECOND MISSIONARY VOYAGE TO THE HERVEY ISLANDS
- CHAPTER V FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO THE HERVEY ISLANDS UNTIL HIS FIRST MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE TO SAMOA
- CHAPTER VI FROM HIS FIRST, UNTIL HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA
- CHAPTER VII FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND
- CHAPTER VIII FROM HIS ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND UNTIL HIS RETURN TO THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER IX FROM HIS DEPARTURE IN THE CAMDEN UNTIL HIS DEATH
- Plate section
CHAPTER VII - FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I FROM MR. WILLIAMS'S BIRTH UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER II FROM HIS DEPARTURE UNTIL THE TERMINATION OF HIS FIRST YEAR'S RESIDENCE AT RAIATEA
- CHAPTER III FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS SECOND YEAR's LABOURS AT RAIATEA UNTIL THE CLOSE OF 1822
- CHAPTER IV FROM HIS FIRST, UNTIL HIS SECOND MISSIONARY VOYAGE TO THE HERVEY ISLANDS
- CHAPTER V FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO THE HERVEY ISLANDS UNTIL HIS FIRST MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE TO SAMOA
- CHAPTER VI FROM HIS FIRST, UNTIL HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA
- CHAPTER VII FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND
- CHAPTER VIII FROM HIS ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND UNTIL HIS RETURN TO THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER IX FROM HIS DEPARTURE IN THE CAMDEN UNTIL HIS DEATH
- Plate section
Summary
Perseverance, worthily directed, and steadily maintained, has uniformly commanded respect, and not seldom, admiration. Even when the object has been of secondary importance, praise has rarely been withheld from the man who has pursued it with unfaltering energy. But praise has risen into plaudits and paeans, which have resounded through empires, and have been repeated in successive ages, when the purpose has been as noble as the perseverance. How often, in history and poetry, has the course of Columbus, as, through years of self-denial, misrepresentation, disappointment, and toil, he made his way from court to court, and from kingdom to kingdom—from Genoa to Portugal, to Venice, to Spain—been held forth for universal commendation. Who that is capable of appreciating the moral sublimity of such a mind, has not done homage to Newton, as from the most familiar facts of daily observation, he patiently climbed the loftiest heights of science, securing each step of his adventurous course as he proceeded, nor ever pausing in his upward movement, until his demonstrations had landed him upon the highest point which genius had yet attained, and presented at a single survey the harmonious movements of the vast universe?
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1843