| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 páginas
...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...accumulated winter of both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
| George Bancroft - 1858 - 454 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 whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
| GEORGE BANOROIT - 1858 - 450 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 whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
| LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY - 1858 - 448 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 whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
| 1859 - 370 páginas
...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...accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
| Francis Sylvester Mahony - 1860 - 650 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...longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the shores of Brazil : no sea that is not vexed by their fisheries, no climate that is not witness to their... | |
| Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1906 - 392 páginas
...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...is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them 5 than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and... | |
| Charles Burr Todd - 1907 - 344 páginas
...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...strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but is vexed by their fisheries; no climate... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1908 - 108 páginas
...Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national 5 ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their...accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of 10 Africa, others run the... | |
| Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 páginas
...engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland Island ... is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
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