| Francis Mahony - 1836 - 696 páginas
...others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the shores of Brazil : no sea that is not vexed by their fisheries, no climate that is not witness to their toils !' — Such glorious imaginings, such beatific dreams, would (I speak advisedly) be realised in these... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 páginas
...and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantick ot profit, of their several departments. Thus much...make even a tolerable guess, of the expences of gov English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it... | |
| William Jardine - 1837 - 396 páginas
...when some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, otters run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries. No. climate that is not witness of their toiL Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
| Daniel Dewey Barnard - 1838 - 248 páginas
...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...of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 646 páginas
...some of them ilruw the line or 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 with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of... | |
| 1838 - 518 páginas
...while some of them draw the line or 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 with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of... | |
| 1839 - 786 páginas
...pursuit (p. 142); and Mr. BCRKK, in his celebrated speech on American affairs in 1774. says that " 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 of hardy industry to the extent to which it... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 páginas
...some of them draw the line or 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 with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of... | |
| Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - 1839 - 426 páginas
...some of them draw the line or 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 with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of... | |
| John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 páginas
...some of them draw the line, or 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 with their fisheries, no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
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