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. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness... Burke on Conciliation with the Colonies - Página 15por Edmund Burke - 1920 - 87 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1847 - 372 páginas
...Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon...longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climate that is not witness to their... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 646 páginas
...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...coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea, but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate,... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 páginas
...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...longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their... | |
| 1848 - 580 páginas
...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...longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their... | |
| 1848 - 600 páginas
...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of thenl draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast...longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their... | |
| Peter Duignan, Lewis H. Gann, L. H. Gann - 1987 - 470 páginas
..."Look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishers . . . We know that whilst some of them draw the line and...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 páginas
...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...line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, was known as the Roman Charity. Cimon was a prisoner, kept alive by the milk of his daughter Xanthippe.... | |
| Hershel Parker - 2005 - 1010 páginas
...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, others...what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toil. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor... | |
| John Ward Dean N. E. H. G. S. Staff - 1996 - 444 páginas
...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... | |
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