Captain James Cook

Famous quotes containing the words captain, james and/or cook:

    “I would not knock old fellows in the dust
    But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
    His weapons were the old heart in his bust
    And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means the affirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “How much more interesting an event is that man’s supper who has just been forth in the snow to hunt, nay, you might say, steal, the fuel to cook it with! His bread and meat are sweet.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)