| Charles Augustus Goodrich - America - 1848 - 646 pages
...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...South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place, in the progress of their... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 492 pages
...frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite...the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 600 pages
...frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis" Straits ; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite...the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 580 pages
...frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits ; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold j that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island,... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 498 pages
...antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.* Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
| Samuel Eagle Forman - Industries - 1928 - 536 pages
...deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's and Davis' Straits ; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear, that they have pierced into the opposite...and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Faulkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite...and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. 33 Falkland Island, 34 which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition,... | |
| Hershel Parker - Novelists, American - 1996 - 1014 pages
...frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold. * * * Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 pages
...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...South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
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