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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... "
Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 147
edited by - 1833
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The Most Eminent Orators and Statesmen of Ancient and Modern Times ...

David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 pages
...or Water Serpent, is a small constellation lying very fax to the wrath, wi iin the antartic circle. victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more...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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History of the United States: The American revolution

George Bancroft - 1858 - 454 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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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 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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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY - 1858 - 448 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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Success in Life: A Book for Young Men

1858 - 348 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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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT

GEORGE BANOROIT - 1858 - 450 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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The History of New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts: Including a ...

Daniel Ricketson - 1858 - 426 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. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Af• rica, others...
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North Atlantic Coast Fisheries: Proceedings in the North Atlantic Coast ...

Permanent Court of Arbitration - 1912 - 940 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 307 harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...
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Annual Report ..., Volumes 107-108

New England Society in the City of New York - 1912 - 276 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. . . . No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to then- toils....
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Anniversary Celebration of the New England Society in the ..., Volumes 108-111

1913 - 572 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. . . . No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils."...
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