 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...  United States Naval Institute Proceedings - Page 199by United States Naval Institute - 1911Full view - About this book
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - Scientific expeditions - 1836 - 318 pages
...look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fisheries, whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains...too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of These facts must show conclusively, that the elements of maritime enterprise have been from the earliest... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis' straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...fishery. " ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the...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... | |
 | William Jardine - 1837 - 396 pages
...and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seems 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 equatorial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1837 - 1168 pages
...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... | |
 | Daniel Dewey Barnard - Banking law - 1838 - 248 pages
...frozen recesses of Hudson's bay and Davis's straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arclic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite...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... | |
 | Salma Hale - America - 1838 - 334 pages
...Davis's straits ; whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they havepierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place m the progress of their victorious industry. 27. " Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...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... | |
 | Commerce - 1840 - 556 pages
...and 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... | |
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