No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode... The works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 186by Edmund Burke - 1834Full view - About this book
| 1838 - 518 pages
...coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,...France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English cnterprize ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 646 pages
...coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,...France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterpru-e ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy inJusirv to the extent to which it has been... | |
| Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - Offshore whaling - 1839 - 426 pages
...coast of Brazil. No sea, but what is vexed with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent people, — a people who are... | |
| John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 pages
...the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries, no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent people — a people who are... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent people— a people who are... | |
| Natural history - 1839 - 786 pages
...pursuit (p. 142); and Mr. BCRKK, in his celebrated speech on American affairs in 1774. says that " Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent people, — a people who are... | |
| Commerce - 1840 - 556 pages
...lino or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is...fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toil. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity... | |
| 1840 - 550 pages
...strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game on the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climate but what is witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France,... | |
| Commerce - 1840 - 556 pages
...strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game on the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climate but what is witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France,... | |
| Francis Allyn Olmsted - Hawaii - 1841 - 390 pages
...and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is...sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people—a... | |
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