| William Shaw Russell - Massachusetts - 1851 - 188 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 activy of France, nor the dexterous and... | |
| William Shaw Russell - Massachusetts - 1851 - 184 pages
...No climate, that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activy of France, nor the dexterous and 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... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 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...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people—a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 558 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...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still,... | |
| Robert Torrens - Colonization - 1835 - 356 pages
...coast of Brazil. " No sea but what is vexed witli their fisheries ; " no clime that is not witness of their toils. " Neither the perseverance of Holland,...this " most perilous mode of hardy industry to the 11 extent to which it has been pursued by this " recent people; a people who arc still in their " gristle,... | |
| 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...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people who are still, as it... | |
| 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,... | |
| Hershel Parker - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 1010 pages
...perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprize ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent people — a people who are still in the gristle, and not yet hardened... | |
| Henry Flanders - Law of the sea - 1999 - 476 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 climate, that is not a witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the... | |
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