 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...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...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, others run the longitude,... | |
 | Domenico Alberto Azuni - 1806 - 462 pages
...gra^p of national ambition, " is but a stage and resting place, in the progress of their victo" rious industry ; nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging...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, others run the... | |
 | Samuel Blodget - 1806 - 258 pages
...cold ; that they are at the Antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland's island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place to their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...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...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, others run the longitude,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...remote and romantick 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 whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...remote and romantick 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 whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 pages
...that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland bland, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for...national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place m the progress of their victorious industry. Nor it the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them,... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...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...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, others run the longitude,... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - 1816 - 458 pages
...cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Faulkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambitipn, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of...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, others run the longitude,... | |
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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... 
