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" 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... "
The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge - Page 344
1775
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The Natural History of the Sperm Whale ...: To which is Added, a Sketch of a ...

Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - Offshore whaling - 1839 - 426 pages
...vexed with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of 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 of hardy industry to the extent...
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The Naturalist: Illustrative of the Animal, Vegetable, and ..., Volumes 4-5

Natural history - 1839 - 786 pages
...Mr. BCRKK, in his celebrated speech on American affairs in 1774. says that " 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 of hardy industry to the extent...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Volume 10

John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 pages
...vexed with their fisheries, no climate that is not witness of 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 of hardy industry to the extent...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 2

Commerce - 1840 - 548 pages
...is vexed by their fisheries, no climate but what is 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 perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 2

1840 - 550 pages
...is vexed by their fisheries, no climate but what is 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 perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to...
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Incidents of a Whaling Voyage

Francis Allyn Olmsted - Hawaii - 1841 - 390 pages
...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 perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to...
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The United States Speaker, a Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution ...

John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...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 of hardy industry to the extent...
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The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a ...

Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 of hard industry to the extent...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...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 of hardy industry to the extent...
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Political dictionary [articles repr. from the penny cyclopaedia, ed. by G ...

Political dictionary - 1846 - 976 pages
...present day to their descendants employed in the southern whale-fishery : " 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 of hardy industry to the extent...
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