 | 1840 - Liczba stron: 556
...Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of...coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game on the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climate but... | |
 | 1840 - Liczba stron: 572
...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 equinoctial...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 run... | |
 | Francis Allyn Olmsted - 1841 - Liczba stron: 390
...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...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,... | |
 | 1841 - Liczba stron: 982
...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 equinoctial...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 run... | |
 | 1842 - Liczba stron: 608
...Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, ia but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their...industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging (o them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some iii them draw the line... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1843 - Liczba stron: 524
...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...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - Liczba stron: 900
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - Liczba stron: 352
...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... | |
 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - 1845 - Liczba stron: 544
...remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and a resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor...equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accu37* mulated winter of both poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the... | |
 | 1845 - Liczba stron: 604
...Falkland island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of British ambition, is but a stage and resting-place, in the progress of their victorious industry ! Nor is the equino.xial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winters of both the poles." " We know... | |
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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 too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national... 
