 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and re^iing-plac« in the piogieai e of procuration and delegation to a course of acting as from original power, thf m, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw tho line... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...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 - 210 pages
...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,... | |
 | Joseph C. Hart - 1835 - 218 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 188 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 pages
...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... | |
 | George Savage White - 1836 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1836 - 42 pages
...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... | |
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Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than 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, and pursue their gigantic game... 
