 Straits — while 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.* Falkland Island, which seemed...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 31by Edmund Burke - 1807Full view - About this book
 | David Bailie Warden - Indians of North America - 1819 - 606 pages
...voyages than old and experienced navigators. Falkland's 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 of their victorious industry. " No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries,... | |
 | Frances Wright - United States - 1821 - 548 pages
...national ambition, is but a stage.and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry ; nor ig the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than...accumulated winter of both 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,... | |
 | Frances Wright - Scholars - 1821 - 410 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the 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 of their victorious industry; nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | John Davis - 1823 - 416 pages
...the Frozen Serpent of the South. Falkland Islands, which seemi too remote and romantic an object fur the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and...progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the «,•••'•noctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles.... | |
 | John Davis - United States - 1822 - 410 pages
...Falkland Islands, which seems too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is bvt a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the ei1urnoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - Canada - 1824 - 530 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of the poles * We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 670 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the 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 of their victorious industry. " Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | Salma Hale - America - 1827 - 312 pages
...national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. 27. " Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We know that, while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coasts of Africa,... | |
 | Salma Hale - America - 1827 - 490 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the 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 of their victorious industry. " Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | Salma Hale - America - 1827 - 314 pages
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the 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 of their victorious industry. 27. " Nor is the equinoctial heat more... | |
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