| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...Davis's Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the artick circle we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that...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... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...Davis's Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the artick circle we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that...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... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...Davis's Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland bland, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...Davis's Straights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctick cirde t we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that...progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1816 - 458 pages
...to the French and English West-India Islands ; the other half sold in the United States. The avegion of polar 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 for the grasp of national ambition,... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1817 - 480 pages
...; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear, that they have pierced into 'he opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the...and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Faulkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an obj ect for the grasp of national ambition,... | |
| Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...Davis's Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that...remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambitipn, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the... | |
| David Bailie Warden - Indians of North America - 1819 - 612 pages
...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,... | |
| Frances Wright - United States - 1821 - 880 pages
...Davis' Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that...progress of their victorious industry ; nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that... | |
| Frances Wright - Scholars - 1821 - 410 pages
...Davis' Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry; nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
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