 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...Industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter || of both the poles. We know || that whilst some of them draw the...to their toils. \ / Neither the perseverance || of H o 1 1 and , nor the activity || of France, nor the dexterous || and firm sagacity \ of English enterprise,... | |
 | 1846 - 594 pages
...equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than 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 down the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed... | |
 | William Shaw Russell - 1846 - 450 pages
...the House of Commons on American affairs, pronounced an eulogy deserving of grateful remembrance. ' No sea, but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate, that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous... | |
 | Peter Duignan, Lewis H. Gann, L. H. Gann - 1987 - 470 pages
..."Look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishers . . . We know that whilst some of them draw the line and...and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil."1 Although whalers were not engaged in commerce in the usual sense of that term, there can... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 pages
...industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than 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, was known as the Roman Charity. Cimon was a prisoner, kept alive by the milk of his daughter Xanthippe.... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 pages
...describes this explosion of energy that was characteristic of the New World: "No sea but what is vered by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous... | |
 | Hershel Parker - 2005 - 1010 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Ward Dean N. E. H. G. S. Staff - 1996 - 444 pages
...people of Yarmouth have been bold and hardy seamen for generations, and it might well be said of them " no sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils." The book contains a map of Old Yarmouth in U'.l 1. also an illustration of the curious Thacher cradle,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 pages
...industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that whilst some of them draw the...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1999 - 476 pages
...industry; nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line...vexed by their fisheries. No climate, that is not a witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the... | |
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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... 
