 Straits — while we are looking for them beneath the 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...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 31by Edmund Burke - 1807Full view - About this book
 | 1828 - 486 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place for their ambitious, and victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1833 - 614 pages
...engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote 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 heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
 | Salma Hale - 1830 - 330 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic 'nn object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place m the progress of their victorious industry. 27. " ]\or is the equinoctial heat more... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland* island, which teemed too 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 is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for 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... | |
 | David Urquhart - 1833 - 362 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote 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 equinoxial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
 | Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith - 1833 - 422 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Faulkland island, which seemed too 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 heat more discouraging to them,... | |
 | 1844 - 372 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place to their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoxial heat more discouraging to them, than... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...the frozen serpent of the south. 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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