| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen...south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
| William Belsham - 1795 - 496 pages
...arctic circle, they have pervaded the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of the poles. Whilst some of them strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others pursue their gigantic... | |
| Samuel Blodget - 1806 - 258 pages
...beneath the arctick circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the Antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland's island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantick an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them,... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...beneath the artick circle we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen...south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and romantick an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...beneath the artick circle we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen...south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and romantick an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 pages
...beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland bland, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...beneath the arctick cirde t we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen...South, Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - 1816 - 458 pages
...English West-India Islands ; the other half sold in the United States. The avegion of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Faulkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition,... | |
| Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen...south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambitipn, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
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