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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 147
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The North American Review, Volume 38

Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1834 - 574 pages
...romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that while some of them draw the line, and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 13

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 546 pages
...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. I'or is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them...the poles. We learn that, while some of them draw tite line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their...
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Miriam Coffin: Or The Whale-fishermen. A Tale ...

Joseph C. Hart - 1835 - 210 pages
...romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the Equinoctial...than the accumulated winter of both the Poles. We know, that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon OB the coast of Africa, others run...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...romantic an object for the grasp of national amhition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of ble constancy, moves on through know that whilst sornti of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...
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Miriam Coffin: Or The Whale-fishermen. A Tale ...

Joseph C. Hart - 1835 - 218 pages
...an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting•place hi the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the Equinoctial...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the Polos. We know, that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,...
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The History of England, Volume 2

Thomas Smart Hughes - 1835 - 364 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...
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Public and Private Economy, Part 1

Theodore Sedgwick - 1836 - 274 pages
...an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage, and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line, and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...
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The United States Speaker: A Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution ...

John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 pages
...romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run...
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The Elocutionist: Consisting of Declamations and Readings in Prose and ...

Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run...
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Address on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the ...

Jeremiah N. Reynolds - 1836 - 318 pages
...and braving the winter's cold national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. "Nor is the equinoctial...than the accumulated winter of both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line, and strike the harpoon on, the coast of Africa, others...
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