 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...  The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Sivu 228tekijä(t) Edmund Burke - 1834Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 sivua
...one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle. Ibid. Vol. If. 526. 1 Boston Ed. 1865 - 1867. A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. Speech on Conciliation with America. Vol. ii. /. 117. A wise and salutary neglect. ibid. My vigour... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 sivua
...fisheries—neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous...has been pushed by this recent people: a people who arc! still, as it were, but 1 Homer, //. v. 845. a as] iq that. in the gristle, and not yet hardened... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1878 - 604 sivua
...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." I bethought me, too, of the cod fisheries which our bay had nourished and cherished, until they became... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 sivua
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous...people — a people who are still, as it were, but in their gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - 1880 - 218 sivua
...dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever conceived 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." A century after these words of the British statesman, an historian of the American whale fisheries*... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 sivua
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous...people — a people who are still, as it were, but in their gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate those things ; when... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 sivua
...with their fisheries, no climate that is not witness to their toils." He spoke of the colonists as "a recent people, — a people who are still, as it were,...and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." When he contemplated that fact, and reflected how profitable they had been to the mother country, " My rigor... | |
 | Union League Club (New York, N.Y.) - 1883 - 54 sivua
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." Our ships' officers were not merely mariners from practice. They understood the structure of vessels,... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 sivua
...Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. Vol. ii. p. 116. A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. Speech on Conciliation with America. Vol. ii. p. 117. 1 Boston cd. 1805-1867. A wise and salutary neglect.... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 340 sivua
...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...When I contemplate these things — when I know that colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into... | |
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