 | 1841 - 982 pages
...and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...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... | |
 | 1842 - 608 pages
...resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging (o them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some iii them draw the line and strike the harpoun on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 pages
...too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace 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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 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 whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...Frozen Serpe nt |j oftheSouth.\ Falkland Island, / which seemed too remote \\ and romantic an object /. is but a stage, \ and resting place, in the progress...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... | |
 | Paul Preston, Thomas Picton - 1847 - 346 pages
...remote and too romantic an "object for (British) national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...them than the accumulated winter of both the Poles. While some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the Iongitude,... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1847 - 464 pages
...for national ambition to grasp, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their vigorous industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging...them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. Wi. know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coasts of Africa, others... | |
 | 1848 - 600 pages
...which seemed too remote an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor...winter of both the poles. We know that while some of thenl draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 646 pages
...seemed too remote and romantic 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,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1849 - 164 pages
...and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We learn that, while some, of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
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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. 
