Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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... "
Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 147
edited by - 1833
Full view - About this book

Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL.: D. Political, Judicial and Literary, Volume 3

Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 460 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...
Full view - About this book

The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 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...
Full view - About this book

Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 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...them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. Wo know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...
Full view - About this book

The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States, Volume 1

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 490 pages
...for national ambition to (rasp, is but a stag* and resting-place in the progress of their vigorous industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging...than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coasts of Africa, others run...
Full view - About this book

The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western ..., Volumes 1-3

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 492 pages
...for national ambition to grasp, i« but л cta?e and resting-place in the progress of their vigorous industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of ÏHMB the polos. We know that while gome of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on thf coasts...
Full view - About this book

The Speeches of the Earl of Chatham, the Hon. R.B. Sheridan, Lord Erskine ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 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...
Full view - About this book

The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 1

William Henry Seward - 1853 - 658 pages
...is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equatorial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. "VVe know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...
Full view - About this book

The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an ...

Joseph Gales - 1824 - 872 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...
Full view - About this book

Self-culture in Reading, Speaking, and Conversation: Designed for the Use of ...

William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 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...
Full view - About this book

The Star of the West: Or, National Men and National Measures

Anna Ella Carroll - 1857 - 628 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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF