... 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
| Joseph C. Hart - 1835 - 210 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 while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon OB the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 páginas
...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,... | |
| Joseph C. Hart - 1835 - 218 páginas
...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...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the Polos. We know, that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
| Thomas Smart Hughes - 1835 - 364 páginas
...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... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1836 - 274 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...coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazik No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climate... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 188 páginas
...South Falkland Island, which seemed too re• mote 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, while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
| Francis Mahony - 1836 - 696 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 while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
| Frederic Henry Hedge - 1836 - 42 páginas
...remote, and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition,isbutastage 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 or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude... | |
| George Savage White - 1836 - 508 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...discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter at both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike Mr. Webster's eulogy of... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 páginas
...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... | |
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