 No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. 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...  Selections - Page 144by Edmund Burke - 1925 - 469 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...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...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 - Commerce - 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 - Fishes - 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... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1844 - 372 pages
...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 with their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
 | Books - 1834 - 604 pages
...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...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 - American fiction - 1834 - 574 pages
...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...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 - Great Britain - 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...some of them draw tho line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, r there is a tho activity of France, nor the deiterous and firm •agacity of English enterprise, ever carried this... | |
 | Back to Africa movement - 1834 - 410 pages
...while some 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 with their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
 | African Americans - 1834 - 450 pages
...South. While some draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others are pursuing their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries, no climate which is not witness to their toils. Falkland Island, that seemed... | |
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