 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1928 - 536 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1902 - 712 Seiten
...the astonishment of Europe, have made shorter voyages than old and experienced navigators. Falkland's Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. " No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 Seiten
...they are at the Antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. 33 Falkland Island, 34 which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, 35 is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial... | |
 | Hershel Parker - 2005 - 1010 Seiten
...beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold. * * * Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1999 - 476 Seiten
...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...south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for the ments, and partially of their terrible calamities. But the chief causes... | |
 | Lisa Norling - 2000 - 398 Seiten
...region of Polar cold — that they are at the Antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of 117 the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 Seiten
...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...south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantick an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 2002 - 308 Seiten
...polar cold, that they are at 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 both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast... | |
 | Domenico Alberto Azuni - 2005 - 896 Seiten
...engaged under the frozen sera pent of the south. Falkland-island, which seemed too remote, " and too romantic an object, for the grasp 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... | |
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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... 
