 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
 | Salma Hale - America - 1838 - 334 pages
...draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coasts of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but...dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, evei carried this most perilous mode of hartly industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by... | |
 | 1838 - 518 pages
...while some of them draw the line or 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 of their toils. Neither the perseverance of... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 646 pages
...some of them ilruw the line or 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 of their toils. Neither the perseverance of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 614 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 industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still,... | |
 | Natural history - 1839 - 786 pages
...pursuit (p. 142); and Mr. BCRKK, in his celebrated speech on American affairs in 1774. says that " Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity...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... | |
 | Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - Offshore whaling - 1839 - 426 pages
...some of them draw the line or 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 of their toils. Neither the perseverance of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...some of them draw the line or 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 of their toils. Neither the perseverance of... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 pages
...some of them draw the line, or 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 of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
 | Commerce - 1840 - 556 pages
...some of them draw the lino or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of...fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toil. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity... | |
 | 1840 - 550 pages
...strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game on the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climate but what is witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France,... | |
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