 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 3451848Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1837 - 1168 σελίδες
...under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and too romantic on object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoxial heat more discouraging to them than... | |
 | 1838 - 518 σελίδες
...and too romantic an object fur the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...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,... | |
 | Salma Hale - 1838 - 334 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | Daniel Dewey Barnard - 1838 - 248 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... | |
 | Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - 1839 - 426 σελίδες
...Island, which seems too remote for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...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,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 σελίδες
...Island, which seems too remote for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...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,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 σελίδες
...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 and restingplace for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
 | 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 σελίδες
...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 and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
 | 1840 - 556 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... | |
 | 1840 - 550 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... | |
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