 | William Jardine - 1837 - 396 էջ
...and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seems too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equatorial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
 | Daniel Dewey Barnard - 1838 - 248 էջ
...opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | 1838 - 518 էջ
...and too romantic an object fur the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We learn that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
 | Salma Hale - 1838 - 334 էջ
...national ambition, is but a stage and resting place m the progress of their victorious industry. 27. " Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We know that, while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coasts of Africa,... | |
 | Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - 1839 - 426 էջ
...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...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We learn, that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 էջ
...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...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We learn that while some of them draw the line, or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
 | 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 էջ
...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...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. While some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the... | |
 | 1840 - 572 էջ
...and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run... | |
 | 1840 - 556 էջ
...and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object 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... | |
 | Francis Allyn Olmsted - 1841 - 390 էջ
...that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Islands 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, Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
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Straits — while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold — that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed... 
