 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
 | 1854 - 576 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...victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discoura:ring to them than the accumulated winter of both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them... | |
 | Joseph Gales - 1824 - 872 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... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 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 * The Hydrus, or Water Serpent, is a small constellation lying very fax to the wrath, wi iin the antartic... | |
 | 1858 - 348 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... | |
 | Daniel Ricketson - 1858 - 426 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...progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equatorial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1858 - 454 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remete and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restiug-place in the progress of their TÍctorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903 - 448 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,... | |
 | University of Sydney - 1903 - 662 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 iu the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1904 - 234 pages
...engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland 30 Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the pol«s. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
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