As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit by which that... United States Naval Institute Proceedings - Page 199by United States Naval Institute - 1911Full view - About this book
| Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - Offshore whaling - 1839 - 426 pages
...daring enterprise in the following eloquent words: "As to the wealth," said he, " which the colonists have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought these acquisitions of value, for they seemed to excite your envy, and yet the spirit... | |
| Commerce - 1840 - 572 pages
...speech delivered in 1774, upon American affairs. " As to the wealth," said he, " which the colonists have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought these acquisitions of value, for they seemed to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...enough to brave it ! 15. ENTERPRISING SPIRIT OF NEW-ENGLAND. Burke. As to the wealth, Mr. Speaker, which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their...you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value ; for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...enough to brave it ! 15. ENTERPRISING SPIRIT OF NEW-ENGLAND. Burke. As to the wealth, Mr. Speaker, which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their...you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value ; for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet... | |
| Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...ruin. Spoliatis arma supersunt. — Speech on Conciliation with America. FISHERIES IN AMERICA. — As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from...you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy : and yet... | |
| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...Tribute to the enterprising Spirit of the New England Colonists. BURKE. As to the wealth, Mr. Speaker, which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their...you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1846 - 540 pages
...enough, to brave it ! 15. ENTERPRISING SPIRIT OF NEW-ENGLAND. Burke. As to the wealth, Mr. Speaker, which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened M your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value ; for they seemed even to excite your envy... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Commercial products - 1849 - 164 pages
...wonderful display of daring enterprise as follows : "As to the wealth," said he, " which the colonists have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought these acquisitions of value, for they seemed to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit... | |
| Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...Cataline'! ought the consul to have doomed thy life a forfeit to thy country. As to the wealth, Mr. Speaker, which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter opened at the bar. To form a just estimate of Caesar's aims, Mr. President, look to 'his triumphs after... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...lib. viL, 36, aud also, more at large, by Valeria* Maxima!;, lib. v., 4. A woman was condemned (4.) As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from...you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet,... | |
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