 No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. 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...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 31by Edmund Burke - 1807Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 480 pages
...1774, is applicable at the present day to their descendais employed in the southern whale-fishery: "Neither the perseverance of Holland. nor the activity of France, nor the Jesterous and firm sagacity of English ем? prise, ever carried this most perito mode of hardy industry... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1850 - 616 pages
...line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is...enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to whieh it has been pushed by this recent people, a people who are still,... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell (Q.), William MacCreary Burwell - 1850 - 628 pages
...line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is...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 who are still,... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - 1850 - 354 pages
...line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is...nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and 'Am sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 pages
...eloquence which will be rehearsed as long as the English language is spoken.* But though he exclaims, " No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climate that is not witness to their toils," the commerce and navigation of the colonies are scarce worthy of mention, in comparison with those... | |
 | William Shaw Russell - 1851 - 188 pages
...the House of Commons on American affairs, pronounced an eulogy deserving of grateful remembrance. ' No sea, but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate, that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activy of France, nor the dexterous and... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 362 pages
...strike the harpoon on the 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 what is witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France,... | |
 | William Shaw Russell - 1851 - 184 pages
...No climate, that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activy of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried their most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is...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 who are still,... | |
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