 | 1831 - 586 pages
...coast of Brazil. No sea, but what is vexed with their fisheries. No climate, that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,...enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent people ; a people who are... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy indus-try to the exlentto which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still,... | |
 | David Urquhart - 1833 - 362 pages
...longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries— no climate that is not witness...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent people — a people who are... | |
 | Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith - 1833 - 422 pages
...pursue their gigantic game on the coast of Brazil. No sea, but what is vexed with their fisheries. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity...dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, have carried their most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Islands, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for...sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people, —... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1834 - 574 pages
...that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Islands, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for...sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people, —... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantick game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is...France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterpriie, em carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been... | |
 | Joseph C. Hart - 1835 - 218 pages
...skill of the islanders which we have written upon the titlepage of this tale j and he added, that " Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity...sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people, —... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...heat more discouraging to th'em, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still... | |
 | George Savage White - 1836 - 528 pages
...owner, to the occupier or the harpoon, on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry, to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people, a people who are still,... | |
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Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people — a people... 
