 Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating 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 into the...  Political Speeches - Page 5by William Henry Seward - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...esteem and admiration. And pray, Sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic... | |
 | Oregon Historical Society - Northwest, Pacific - 1921 - 486 pages
..."the spirit by which that enterprising employment had been exercised"] Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic... | |
 | Daniel Chauncey Brewer - Immigrants - 1926 - 388 pages
...generation had exhibited a daring and sagacity which had compelled the admiration of mankind. Says Burke — Look 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, and behold them penetrating into... | |
 | 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...ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits," he exclaimed, in a famous passage of his incomparable... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1926 - 878 pages
...esteem and admiration. And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of Jate carried on the whale fishery. While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold... | |
 | 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...of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic... | |
 | Norman Foerster - American literature - 1928 - 300 pages
...the Mohicans is a crystallization of the love of the frontier. Burke had bade his haughty colleagues "look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery. . . . No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not a witness to their toils."... | |
 | 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, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's and Davis' Straits ; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,... | |
 | Peter Duignan, Lewis H. Gann, L. H. Gann - History - 1987 - 470 pages
...Bay before 1770. Edmund Burke, in his famous 1775 speech "Conciliation with the Colonies," declaimed: "Look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishers . . . We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...esteem and admiration. And pray, Sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the... | |
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