 | David Urquhart - Commerce - 1833 - 362 pages
...them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We learn, that while some of them draw the line, or strike the harpoon, on the coast of Africa, others...longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries— no climate that is not witness to... | |
 | Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith - Fishes - 1833 - 422 pages
...remote and romantic an oBject for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place for their victorious -industry. Nor is the equinoctial...discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both poles. We know that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Ñor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that, while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantick an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of...the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the lontritude, and pursue their gigantick game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1834 - 574 pages
...remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor...accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that while some of them draw the line, and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
 | Books - 1834 - 604 pages
...remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor...accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that while some of them draw the line, and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
 | African Americans - 1834 - 300 pages
...mountains of ice, they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South, While some draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others are pursuing their gigantic game along the coast of bvazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries,... | |
 | African Americans - 1834 - 450 pages
...mountains of ice, they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. While some draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others are pursuing their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and re^iing-plac« in the piogieai e of procuration and delegation to a course of acting as from original power, thf m, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw tho line... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantick an object fur the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious indii1try. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both... | |
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Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of Polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national... 
