 | David Urquhart - 1833 - 362 pagina’s
...and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoxial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pagina’s
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantick an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but...the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the lontritude, and pursue their gigantick... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pagina’s
...the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantick an object fur the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious indii1try. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pagina’s
...the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too ho, when they rose in their place, no man living could divine, re^iing-plac« in the piogieai of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pagina’s
...the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Islands, 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1834 - 574 pagina’s
...the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Islands, 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... | |
 | 1834 - 300 pagina’s
...fisheries, no clb mate which is not witness to their toils. Falkland Island, that seemed too remote an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and a resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry." Human nature is of all countries and... | |
 | Joseph C. Hart - 1835 - 210 pagina’s
...the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national...accumulated winter of both the Poles. We know, that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon OB the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pagina’s
...Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national amhition, iddle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through sornti of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others rim the longitude,... | |
 | Joseph C. Hart - 1835 - 218 pagina’s
...the antipodes, and 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 hi the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the Equinoctial heat more discouraging to them... | |
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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. Falkland Island, which seemed... 
