 ... 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 too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national...  Speech on Conciliation with America - Página 54de Edmund Burke - 1904 - 164 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 328 páginas
...Falkland Island, 34 which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, 35 is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of...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.... | |
 | Hershel Parker - 1996 - 941 páginas
...beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold. * * * Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to 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 run... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - 525 páginas
...the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantick an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the...Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantick game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 2002 - 288 páginas
...polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. . . . Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them,...the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longtitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea, but what is vexed by... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2005 - 844 páginas
...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...poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES. 175 their agriculture. This they have prosecuted with such a spirit, that,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1963 - 585 páginas
...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...accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that whilst somj of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
 | Eric Jay Dolin - 2007 - 479 páginas
...polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. . . . We know that whilst some of them draw the line and...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. . . . Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity... | |
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