THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
The Adventurers. Tf the years bo long and the difference in their endeavour to be great between the cloaked and sworded heroes of the “spacious days of Queen Elizabeth” and those who walk in soberer garb to-day, yet the motive power that urges them now is still the same as that which urged them then. “Adventures are to the adventurous” ; and it is the supreme characteristic of the sons of Britain that they have in every age and in every clime attempted and carried out great, undertakings not for the gain or glory of themselves; even perhaps, thoughtless of their country of their king; but driven by that innate lust of adventure that makes its .possessor love the danger for itself, greet disaster with a laugh, and death itself without a tremor.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1922, Page 2
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136THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1922, Page 2
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