 | African Americans - 1834 - 450 pages
...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, no climate which is not witness to their toils. Falkland Island, that seemed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...that whilst sornti of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others rim us and from us, in the same course and order. Our...placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent... | |
 | Joseph C. Hart - Offshore whaling - 1835 - 218 pages
...the accumulated winter of both the Polos. We know, that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the...their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea bat what is vexed by their fisheries—no climate that is not witness to their unceasing toils ! Edmund... | |
 | Joseph C. Hart - Nantucket Island (Mass.) - 1835 - 210 pages
...winter of both the Poles. We know, that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon OB the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and...their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No tea but what ii vexed by their fisheries — no climate that is not witness to their unceasing toils... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the...nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - Scientific expeditions - 1836 - 318 pages
...the accumulated winter of both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line, and strike the harpoon on, the coast of Africa, others run the...nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton - 1836 - 528 pages
...owner, to the occupier or the harpoon, on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but...nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry, to the... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - Lectures and lecturing - 1836 - 42 pages
...than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the...fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils."* Such, in one branch of industry, was the character of American enterprise, at that early period, *... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton - 1836 - 636 pages
...owner, to the occupier or the harpoon, on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but...perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexierous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1836 - 188 pages
...the 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...along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
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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... 
