 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
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 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 is vexed by their fisheries. No elimate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 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 is...perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, uor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of... | |
 | William Henry Seward - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No ocean but what is vexed with their fisheries, no climate that is not witness to...sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this perilous mode of hardy enterprise to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people —... | |
 | Economics - 1853 - 502 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 Henry Bartlett - Massachusetts - 1853 - 312 pages
...House of Commons. "No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,...firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried their most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - Massachusetts - 1853 - 388 pages
...with on the watery element. To this fact Burke, in 1774, bore noble testimony in the House of Commons. "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... | |
 | Jean McClure Mudge - Art - 1981 - 322 pages
...Commons in 1775 on conciliation with the colonies, well described the activity of New England seamen: activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...Falkland's Islands (1771), Political Writings p. 67). others run the longitude, 36 and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is...perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dextrous and firm sagacity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 294 pages
...describes this explosion of energy that was characteristic of the New World: "No sea but what is vered by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness...to which it has been pushed by this recent people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle and not yet hardened to the bone of manhood."8 The Impact... | |
 | John Ward Dean N. E. H. G. S. Staff - New England - 1996 - 444 pages
...people of Yarmouth have been bold and hardy seamen for generations, and it might well be said of them " no sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils." The book contains a map of Old Yarmouth in U'.l 1. also an illustration of the curious Thacher cradle,... | |
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