| Children's periodicals - 1844 - 372 pages
...national ambition, is but a stage and resting place to their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoxial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated...of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.... | |
| Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith - Fishes - 1833 - 422 pages
...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,...poles. We know that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Ñor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that, while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
| David Urquhart - Commerce - 1833 - 362 pages
...national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoxial heat more 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, others... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. 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,... | |
| Books - 1834 - 604 pages
...of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, 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,... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1834 - 574 pages
...of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, 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,... | |
| Joseph C. Hart - Nantucket Island (Mass.) - 1835 - 210 pages
...industry. Nor is the Equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the Poles. We know, that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon OB the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...of national amhition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. ough the poles. We know that whilst sornti of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of... | |
| Joseph C. Hart - Offshore whaling - 1835 - 218 pages
...national ambition, is but a stage and resting•place hi the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the Equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the Polos. We know, that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
| |