| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...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, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.... | |
| Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...object /. 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... | |
| Commerce - 1846 - 594 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,... | |
| Paul Preston, Thomas Picton - 1847 - 346 pages
..."object for (British) 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 winter of both the Poles. While some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 580 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 on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil.... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 498 pages
...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,... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 616 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 Afinca,... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - Literary Criticism - 1848 - 662 pages
...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,... | |
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