Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Σελίδα 5211848Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell (Q.), William MacCreary Burwell - 1850 - 628 σελίδες
...for national ambition to grasp, is hut a stage and resting place in the progress of their vigorous industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging...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... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1850 - 616 σελίδες
...ambition to grasp, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their vigorous industry. Nor in the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than...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... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell (Q.), William MacCreary Burwell - 1850 - 630 σελίδες
...for national ambition to grasp, is hut a stage and resting place in the progress of their vigorous industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both thu poles. \Ve know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
| New Hampshire Historical Society - 1850 - 350 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen Serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and 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 equinoxial heat more discouraging... | |
| Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1852 - 558 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but...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,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1919 - 336 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen Serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and 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... | |
| Clarence Stratton - 1920 - 364 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen Serpent of the South. Falkland Islands, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but...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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1920 - 136 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland Island,88 which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but...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,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1920 - 118 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen ifl Serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but...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... | |
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