 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 of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people...  The Island World of the Pacific Ocean - Seite 182von Charles Marion Tyler - 1887 - 337 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 362 Seiten
...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...carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry [the whale-fishery] to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people." 2 Such in their... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1878 - 604 Seiten
...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...mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 Seiten
...of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor 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 by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 Seiten
...climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity ol ment made for that purpose. So I saw that, as thev...shone like gold, also their faces shone as the light been pushed by this recent people, — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 Seiten
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm salacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous...of hardy industry to the extent to •which it has been pushed by this recent people, — л people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1891 - 416 Seiten
...business prospered, and the whalers became rich. Edmund Burke said of it : " Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous...mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people." The annual products of this industry were estimated to be 45,000... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 Seiten
...is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance ed titles of veneration to lliose of enthusiastic,...sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that been pushed by this recent people, — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1907 - 120 Seiten
...their toils. Neither the persev/erance of Holland,.nor the activity of France, nor the jjex-tereus and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried...most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to 1 Cf. 11, note 1. * Parliament had adopted measures to repress them. - •, ' • -J.fffci^". ov^t... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 Seiten
...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...mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not... | |
 | John Randolph Spears - 1908 - 468 Seiten
...Neither the perse>л iV SMt=2!L . J veranee of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dextrous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried...mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not... | |
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