 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 352 pagina’s
...them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil." The first whaling expedition of the people of Nantucket took place within twenty or thirty years of... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pagina’s
...them, than the accumulated winter || of both the poles. We know || that whilst some of them draw the line, || and strike the harpoon, / on the coast of...to their toils. \ / Neither the perseverance || of H o 1 1 and , nor the activity || of France, nor the dexterous || and firm sagacity \ of English enterprise,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1846 - 540 pagina’s
...harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries....perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry... | |
 | Peter Duignan, Lewis H. Gann, L. H. Gann - 1987 - 470 pagina’s
...New England have of late carried on the whale fishers . . . We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,...and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil."1 Although whalers were not engaged in commerce in the usual sense of that term, there can... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 pagina’s
...Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands (1771), Political Writings p. 67). others run the longitude, 36 and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of...perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dextrous and firm sagacity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 pagina’s
...describes this explosion of energy that was characteristic of the New World: "No sea but what is vered by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness...perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry... | |
 | Hershel Parker - 2005 - 1010 pagina’s
...them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toil. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity... | |
 | John Ward Dean N. E. H. G. S. Staff - 1996 - 444 pagina’s
...people of Yarmouth have been bold and hardy seamen for generations, and it might well be said of them " no sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils." The book contains a map of Old Yarmouth in U'.l 1. also an illustration of the curious Thacher cradle,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 pagina’s
...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,...perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1999 - 476 pagina’s
...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,...vexed by their fisheries. No climate, that is not a witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the... | |
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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 of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people... 
