| Roger Lamb - 1809 - 480 Seiten
...ice, and behold them penetrating into the "deepest recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Strats! Whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south ! Falkland's Island, which seemed so remote and romantic an object-for the grasp of national ambition,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 Seiten
...eulogy of the piscatory enterprise of the New Englanders :— ' Falkland Island, which seems too remote for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. While... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 Seiten
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and roшапис an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 Seiten
...recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctick circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite...South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a, stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1815 - 460 Seiten
...recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctick circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite...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... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - 1816 - 458 Seiten
...the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's and Davis' Straits ; while we are looking for them beTieath the arctic circle, we hear, that they have pierced into the opposite reDuringthe war of the American revolution, this fishery was destroyed ; on the return of peace, it... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - 1818 - 216 Seiten
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
| Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 Seiten
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambitipn, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
| David Bailie Warden - 1819 - 606 Seiten
...shorter voyages than old and experienced navigators. Falkland's Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for 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 - 1821 - 548 Seiten
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Streights, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage.and resting-place in the progress... | |
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