 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1835 - 364 pagina’s
...arctic circle, they have pervaded the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south : nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of the poles : whilst some of them strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others pursue their gigantic... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1836 - 274 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...the poles. 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 the gigantic... | |
 | Francis Mahony - 1836 - 696 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 on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 188 pagina’s
...antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South Falkland Island, which seemed too re• mote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition,...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,... | |
 | George Savage White - 1836 - 508 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...discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter at both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike Mr. Webster's eulogy of... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - 1836 - 318 pagina’s
...this trying ordeal, and braving the winter's cold national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. "Nor...the Poles. 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... | |
 | George Savage White - 1836 - 514 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...their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial beat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter at both the poles. We know that whilst... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1836 - 42 pagina’s
...remote, and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition,isbutastage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor...accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 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 in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 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 in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
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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... 
