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... north as commonly the whale hunters used to travel ; " nor was the stranger suffered to depart until he had submitted to the King " a most just survey and description " of the Northern Seas , not only as they extended upwards to the North ...
... north as commonly the whale hunters used to travel ; " nor was the stranger suffered to depart until he had submitted to the King " a most just survey and description " of the Northern Seas , not only as they extended upwards to the North ...
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... North Pole , and they took whales in its vicinity in such abundance that ships were needed to go out in ballast , to carry home the surplus oil and bone above the capacity of the whaling vessels . The whales , thus vigorously attacked ...
... North Pole , and they took whales in its vicinity in such abundance that ships were needed to go out in ballast , to carry home the surplus oil and bone above the capacity of the whaling vessels . The whales , thus vigorously attacked ...
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... North fishery , which captured only 24 whales . The Southern fishery declined still more rapidly ; so that , in 1845 , not one British whaler appeared in the South Seas . Since that time , all nations have virtually abandoned this ...
... North fishery , which captured only 24 whales . The Southern fishery declined still more rapidly ; so that , in 1845 , not one British whaler appeared in the South Seas . Since that time , all nations have virtually abandoned this ...
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... north of them . In 1848 , Captain Roys , in the whale ship Superior , passed through those seas and through the straits , braving the perils of an unknown way and an inhospitable climate . He filled his ship in a few weeks , and the ...
... north of them . In 1848 , Captain Roys , in the whale ship Superior , passed through those seas and through the straits , braving the perils of an unknown way and an inhospitable climate . He filled his ship in a few weeks , and the ...
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... North America , which we call our own . If you go southward , it greets you on the Bermudas , the Bahamas , and the Caribbee Islands . On the Falkland Islands it guards the Straits of Magellan ; on the South Shetland Island it watches ...
... North America , which we call our own . If you go southward , it greets you on the Bermudas , the Bahamas , and the Caribbee Islands . On the Falkland Islands it guards the Straits of Magellan ; on the South Shetland Island it watches ...
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Página 5 - 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 of...
Página 5 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's 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.
Página 2 - Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers to slave culture and to the production of slaves, and Boston and New York become once more markets for trade in the bodies and souls of men.
Página 5 - 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.
Página 13 - European connections, although actually becoming more intimate— -will, nevertheless, relatively sink in importance ; while the Pacific ocean, its shores, its islands, and the vast regions beyond, will become the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter...
Página 2 - ... two systems which the first Napoleon was contemplating when he predicted that Europe would ultimately be either all Cossack or all republican. Never did human sagacity utter a more pregnant truth. The two systems are at once perceived to be incongruous. But they are more than incongruous — they are incompatible. They never have permanently existed together in one country and they never can. It would be easy to demonstrate this impossibility from the irreconcilable contrast between their great...
Página 7 - I know, and you know, that a revolution has begun. I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward.
Página 3 - Constitution and laws they invited foreign free labor from all lands under the sun, and interdicted the importation of African slave labor, at all times, in all places, and under all circumstances whatsoever. It is true that they necessarily and wisely modified this policy of Freedom, by leaving it to the several States, affected as they were by differing circumstances, to abolish Slavery in their own way and at their own pleasure, instead of confiding that duty to Congress, and that they secured...
Página 3 - Union can never be doubted, has given renewed vigor to our institutions and restored a sense of repose and security to the public mind throughout the Confederacy. That this repose is to suffer no shock during my official term, if I have power to avert it, those who placed me here may be assured.
Página 2 - It debases those whose toil alone can produce wealth and resources for defence to the lowest degree of which human nature is capable, to guard against! mutiny and insurrection, and thus wastes energies whicH ! otherwise might be employed in national development and aggrandizement. , ; The free-labor system educates all alike, and by opening all the fields of industrial employment...