History of a Voyage to the Falkland Islands

the entire Voyage, bringing together under
specific Chapters that which
was scattered throughout the two volumes,
and distinguishing the History, which inter-
ests everyone, from the Journal, which
only interests Navigators. Such
was, moreover, the design of Dom
Pernetty himself; and there are
reasons which he accounted for in
the Preface of the first Edition,
which prevented him from executing it.

The Ambition of private individuals is
not the same as that of Kings;
the one aspires to invade everything, the other
limits itself to knowing everything.

Such is the activity of the human
spirit, that the larger the horizon of its
ideas, the more it seeks
to extend it further. Columbus finds
himself cramped in Genoa, and
he travels across Europe; soon he
believes himself cramped in Europe,
and he goes to discover the New
World.

The passion for discov-
eries is irritated In this context, "irritated" (French: s'irrite) means stimulated or provoked into greater intensity. by those already
made, just as physical love
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