 | American periodicals - 1848 - 600 pages
...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of thenl draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast...longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Commercial products - 1849 - 164 pages
...and too 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 learn that, while some, of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - Local history - 1850 - 350 pages
...is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoxial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated...coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate... | |
 | Success - Conduct of life - 1851 - 362 pages
...Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of...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... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 544 pages
...and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...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... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 450 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...coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate... | |
 | William Henry Seward - United States - 1852 - 48 pages
...in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the Equatorial heat more discouraging to theni than the accumulated winter of both the Poles. We...Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their figantic game along the coast of Brazil. No ocean but what is vexed with their sheries, no climate... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of...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,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is hut a stage and resting-place in the progress of their...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,... | |
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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... 
