 We know that whilst 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 Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness...  Literary Port Folio - Page 641830Full view - About this book
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither...by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither...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... | |
 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - United States - 1845 - 544 pages
...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. 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 Francej nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of British enterprize ever carried this most perilous mode... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1846 - 540 pages
...pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither...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,... | |
 | Commerce - 1846 - 594 pages
...their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither...firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried that most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent... | |
 | 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
...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,...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... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea / but what is vexed || by their fisheries, no climate that is not witness || 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,... | |
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