 | Edmund Burke - 1920 - 136 pages
...romantic 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...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles.64 We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1920 - 296 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...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 coast of Africa,... | |
 | Free Public Library (New Bedford, Mass.) - 1920 - 42 pages
...polar cold, that they are at 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 both the poles. . . . No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils."—Edmund... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1920 - 118 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 heat more discouraging to them than the ac- 15 cumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - 1921 - 444 pages
...an object for the grasp of national ambition1, 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... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 880 pages
...romantic 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...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... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 876 pages
...romantic 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...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... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1921 - 714 pages
...polar cold, that they are at 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 both poles. We know that, whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1922 - 360 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...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 coast of Africa,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 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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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... 
