 No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode...  Conciliation with the American Colonies - Stran 43avtor: Edmund Burke - 1900 - 117 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1845 - 604 strani
...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...game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is veied by their fisheries ; no climate but is witness of their toils." Such was the fame of the New... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 352 strani
...both the poles. We learn 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 along the coast of Brazil." The first whaling expedition of the people of Nantucket took place within twenty or thirty years of... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 strani
...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...to their toils. \ / Neither the perseverance || of H o 1 1 and , nor the activity || of France, nor the dexterous || and firm sagacity \ of English enterprise,... | |
 | Peter Duignan, Lewis H. Gann, L. H. Gann - 1987 - 470 strani
...fishers . . . 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."1 Although whalers were not engaged in commerce in the usual sense of that term, there can... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 strani
...Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands (1771), Political Writings p. 67). others run the longitude, 36 and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of...perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dextrous and firm sagacity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 strani
...describes this explosion of energy that was characteristic of the New World: "No sea but what is vered by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness...the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent... | |
 | John Ward Dean N. E. H. G. S. Staff - 1996 - 444 strani
...people of Yarmouth have been bold and hardy seamen for generations, and it might well be said of them " no sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils." The book contains a map of Old Yarmouth in U'.l 1. also an illustration of the curious Thacher cradle,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 strani
...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...the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1999 - 476 strani
...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...vexed by their fisheries. No climate, that is not a witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 strani
...and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantick game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is...the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent... | |
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