 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
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Islands, 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 their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic n their place, no man living could divine, re^iing-plac« in the piogieai of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | 1834 - 300 pages
...fisheries, no clb mate which is not witness to their toils. Falkland Island, that seemed too remote an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and a resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry." Human nature is of all countries and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1834 - 574 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Islands, 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 their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | Joseph C. Hart - 1835 - 210 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...accumulated 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national amhition, iddle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through sornti of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others rim the longitude,... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1835 - 364 pages
...arctic circle, they have pervaded the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south : nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of the poles : whilst some of them strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others pursue their gigantic... | |
 | Joseph C. Hart - 1835 - 218 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 hi the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the Equinoctial heat more discouraging to them... | |
 | Francis Mahony - 1836 - 696 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...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,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 188 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the South Falkland Island, which seemed too re• mote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but...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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