 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pagina’s
...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 progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pagina’s
...the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantick an object for the grasp of national ambition, 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 winter of both the poles. We know... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pagina’s
...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 progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pagina’s
...Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambitipn, is 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 winter of both the poles. We know that... | |
 | Frances Wright - 1821 - 880 pagina’s
...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 progress of their victorious industry ; nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that... | |
 | John Davis - 1823 - 416 pagina’s
...the South. Falkland Islands, which seemi too remote and romantic an object fur the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the «,•••'•noctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles.... | |
 | John Davis - 1822 - 410 pagina’s
...Falkland Islands, which seems too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is bvt a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the ei1urnoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - 1824 - 530 pagina’s
...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 progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of the poles * We know that... | |
 | 1829 - 622 pagina’s
...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 progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1829 - 466 pagina’s
...the South. Falkland Island, which seemed 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 is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know... | |
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... for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an... 
