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: With a Memoir - Page 228by Edmund Burke - 1834Full view - About this book
| Salma Hale - America - 1827 - 312 pages
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...gristle and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit... | |
| Josiah Conder - Canada - 1829 - 466 pages
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." * It is curious enough to compare with this splendid encominm upon the adventurous spirit of mercantile... | |
| Josiah Conder - North America - 1830 - 396 pages
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." * It is curious enough to compare with this splendid encominm upon the adventurous spirit of mercantile... | |
| 1830 - 222 pages
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous...by this recent people; a people who are still, as ¡t were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these... | |
| William Shepherd - United States - 1834 - 298 pages
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.' 'But,' continued Mr. Burke, 'some persons will say, such a country is worth fighting for, — true,... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1834 - 574 pages
...nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.' After the war, the rotten and decayed hulks were repaired, and new ships built and launched from both... | |
| Books - 1834 - 604 pages
...nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." — p. 101. After the war with England, new ships were employed by America in the fishery, and it is... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity if they are such facts as draw irresistible conclusions...management of mine. Sir, I shall open the whole plan AVhen I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
| Jeremiah N. Reynolds - Scientific expeditions - 1836 - 318 pages
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." and summer's heat in the probationary war with France, that we were trained by the wise hand of a superintending... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - Economics - 1836 - 274 pages
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the' activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of 'manhood." 53. When the war of the Revolution began, though the poverty of the people was great, compared with... | |
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