 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...  Literary - Seite 202von Levi Woodbury - 1852Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 Seiten
...to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 Seiten
...to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 Seiten
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 Seiten
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 Seiten
...to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 Seiten
...this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent N people; a people who are still, as it were, but in...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Barent Gardenier - 1814 - 442 Seiten
...ourselves ? When in our infancy ; when, to use the language of one of our warmest friends, " we were in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood," with a government weak and disorganized-; a people distracted ; without .funds; without resources,... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 Seiten
...individual not very aged may reach hack to the time, when we were, as Mr. Burke described us, ' a people but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood ;' that before that time, little literary labor was to be expected from the poor and hardy adventurers... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1823 - 300 Seiten
...industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people, who are still, as it were, in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." In the beginning of the eighteenth century, the export trade of Great Britain to her American colonies,... | |
 | John Davis - 1822 - 410 Seiten
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. NAVAL ANNALS. June 18, The Orders in Council, though ostensibly a 1812. belligerent retaliation on... | |
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