 We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness...  Speech on Conciliation with America - Página 17de Edmund Burke - 1907 - 83 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 páginas
...is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated...witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 páginas
...but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated...witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever... | |
 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - 1845 - 544 páginas
...industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accu37* mulated winter of both poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line...witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of Francej nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of British enterprize ever... | |
 | Peter Duignan, Lewis H. Gann, L. H. Gann - 1987 - 470 páginas
..."Look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishers . . . We know that whilst some of them draw the line and...and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil."1 Although whalers were not engaged in commerce in the usual sense of that term, there can... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 páginas
...but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated...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.... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 páginas
...describes this explosion of energy that was characteristic of the New World: "No sea but what is vered by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever... | |
 | John Ward Dean N. E. H. G. S. Staff - 1996 - 444 páginas
...people of Yarmouth have been bold and hardy seamen for generations, and it might well be said of them " no sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils." The book contains a map of Old Yarmouth in U'.l 1. also an illustration of the curious Thacher cradle,... | |
 | Hershel Parker - 2005 - 1010 páginas
...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 - 1997 - 720 páginas
...but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated...witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1999 - 476 páginas
...but a stage and a resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry; nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated...vexed by their fisheries. No climate, that is not a witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the... | |
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