 | William Jardine - 1837 - 396 pages
...line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, otters run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries. No. climate that is not witness of their toiL Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
 | Daniel Dewey Barnard - New York (State) - 1838 - 248 pages
...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...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still... | |
 | Salma Hale - America - 1838 - 334 pages
...line and strike the harpoon on the coasts of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is...dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, evei carried this most perilous mode of hartly industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by... | |
 | 1838 - 518 pages
...line or 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 with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 646 pages
...line or 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 with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of... | |
 | Natural history - 1839 - 786 pages
...pursuit (p. 142); and Mr. BCRKK, in his celebrated speech on American affairs in 1774. says that " Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity...mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent people, — a people who are still in the gristle, and not hardened into... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 pages
...line, or 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 with their fisheries, no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
 | Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - Offshore whaling - 1839 - 426 pages
...line or 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 with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of... | |
 | Art - 1839 - 352 pages
...into the fisheries carried on in the Northern and Southern oceans, and no nation has ever carried this perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by them. CHAPTER XIX. VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY. WATCH OF FLORA. — ANTIPATHIES. — SMELL... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...line or 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 with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of... | |
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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... 
