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 works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 186by Edmund Burke - 1834Full view - About this book
| Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...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...to their toils. \ / Neither the perseverance || of H o 1 1 and , nor the activity || of France, nor the dexterous || and firm sagacity \ of English enterprise,... | |
| Political dictionary - 1846 - 976 pages
...1774, is applicable at the present day to their descendants employed in the southern whale-fishery : " 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." In 1843 the imports... | |
| William Shaw Russell - Massachusetts - 1846 - 450 pages
...the House of Commons on American affairs, pronounced an eulogy deserving of grateful remembrance. ' No sea, but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate, that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 580 pages
...Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not...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,... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 536 pages
...Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not...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,... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 600 pages
...Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not...dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever earned this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this'recent... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - Massachusetts - 1848 - 390 pages
...it ? " Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and fine sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most...perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it had been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - Massachusetts - 1848 - 390 pages
...ought rather to have raised their esteem and admiration ; for what in the world was equal to it ? " Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and fine sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent... | |
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