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
| Daniel Dewey Barnard - 1838 - 248 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 in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
| John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 pages
...Island, which seems too remote 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,... | |
| Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - 1839 - 426 pages
...Island, which seems too remote 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,... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 pages
...eulogy of the piscatory enterprise of the New Englanders:— 'Falkland Island, which seems too remote for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 pages
...eulogy of the piscatory enterprise of the New Englanders: — 1 Falkland Island, which seems too remote 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... | |
| 1840 - 572 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... | |
| 1840 - 556 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... | |
| Francis Allyn Olmsted - 1841 - 390 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...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,... | |
| 1841 - 982 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... | |
| Francis Allyn Olmsted - 1841 - 400 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... | |
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