Nor is the equinoctial 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 on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game... The Foreign Quarterly Review - Pagina 3671831Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pagina’s
...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. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
| Samuel Blodget - 1806 - 258 pagina’s
...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 along the...with their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pagina’s
...line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue the gigantick game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pagina’s
...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 vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pagina’s
...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 vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 pagina’s
...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. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness, to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pagina’s
...draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by*their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
| Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pagina’s
...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. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
| David Bailie Warden - 1819 - 606 pagina’s
...national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. " No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries, no climate that is not witness to their toils. * Since the commencement of the war in 1812, the American public and private armed... | |
| Frances Wright - 1821 - 410 pagina’s
...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 along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils."* Now, though it is by no means... | |
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