 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 188 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... | |
 | Francis Mahony - 1836 - 696 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... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1836 - 42 pages
...romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition,isbutastage 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 or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run... | |
 | George Savage White - 1836 - 528 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...discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter at both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike Mr. Webster's eulogy of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pages
...romantick an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of ngs are circumstanced, the first lord of the treasury...am sure I serve the king, and I am sure I assist a know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run... | |
 | 1838 - 518 pages
...frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object fur the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We learn that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
 | Daniel Dewey Barnard - 1838 - 248 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... | |
 | Salma Hale - 1838 - 334 pages
...national ambition, is but a stage and resting place m the progress of their victorious industry. 27. " Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We know that, while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coasts of Africa,... | |
 | 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 pages
...eulogy of the piscatory enterprise of the New Englanders: — 1 Falkland Island, which seems too remote for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. While some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 pages
...eulogy of the piscatory enterprise of the New Englanders:— 'Falkland Island, which seems too remote for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. While some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the... | |
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Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, 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 the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game... 
