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History of the American Whale Fishery from its Earliest Inception to the ... - Page 61
by Alexander Starbuck - 1878 - 768 pages
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Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in ...

Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1922 - 360 pages
...look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery. While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice,...into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced...
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The Merchant Marine: "a Necessity in Time of War, a Source of Independence ...

William Shepherd Benson - Merchant marine - 1923 - 212 pages
...to Yankee whalemen of his time in his speech in the English Parliament in 1775, when he said: "While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice...them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson Bay and Davis Strait; while we look for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have...
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Advanced American History

Samuel Eagle Forman - United States - 1924 - 748 pages
...distant waters. "Whilst we follow them," said Burke, speaking of the whale fishermen of New England, "among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them...into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced...
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Selections

Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...employment has been exercised, ought rather, -in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. And pray, Sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass...into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced...
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Oregon Historical Quarterly, Volume 22

Oregon Historical Society - Northwest, Pacific - 1921 - 486 pages
...is equal to it? [Referring to "the spirit by which that enterprising employment had been exercised"] Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in...into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced...
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The Conquest of New England by the Immigrant

Daniel Chauncey Brewer - Immigrants - 1926 - 388 pages
...at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale industry. While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice,...frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits — while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced the opposite...
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Selected Literary and Political Papers and Addresses of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 3

Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1921 - 442 pages
...people in respect of all their internal affairs ; and he declared the result matter for just pride. " Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains...into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits," he exclaimed, in a famous passage of his incomparable speech on Conciliation with...
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The Rise of American Civilization, Volume 1

Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1927 - 840 pages
...Burke, warning his colleagues in Parliament against treating the Americans as puny children, bade them "look at the manner in which the people of New England...into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced...
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Sidelights on Our Social and Economic History

Samuel Eagle Forman - Industries - 1928 - 536 pages
...and look at the manner, in which the New-England people of late carried on the whale fishery. While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice,...penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's and Davis' Straits ; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear, that they have...
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Colonization of South Australia

Robert Torrens - Colonization - 1835 - 356 pages
...which the new England people carry on the " whale fishery. While we follow them among " the trembling mountains of ice, and behold them " penetrating into...the deepest frozen recesses of " Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Straits ; while we 181 " are look ing for them beneath the arctic circle, we " hear that they...
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