 Brazil. 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...  The North American Review - Page 101edited by - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Economics - 1836 - 274 pages
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry, to the extent to which it has been pushed...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of 'manhood." 53. When the war of the Revolution began, though the poverty of the people was great, compared with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard upon it. I do not think, Sir, that the reason of...government, is so much to be sought in their reli When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | William Jardine - 1837 - 396 pages
...perseverance of Holland, 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 heen pursued hy this recent people ; a people who are still in the gristle, and not hardened into manhood."... | |
 | Salma Hale - America - 1838 - 334 pages
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, evei carried this most perilous mode of hartly industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...gristle and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. 28. "When I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies owe little or nothing to any care... | |
 | Daniel Dewey Barnard - Banking law - 1838 - 248 pages
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...gristle. and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." For my part, sir, I can find nothing in the character of our people, (for we are of the blood of the... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...national interest; a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body." That infant people, then " but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood," — struggling with the vicissitudes of life in a new country, and subduing the wilderness and the... | |
 | 1838 - 518 pages
...activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English cnterprize ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent people ; a people who are still in the gristle and not hardened into manhood.'... | |
 | Natural history - 1839 - 786 pages
...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 pursued by this recent people, — a people who are still in the gristle, and not hardened into... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...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 pursued by this recent people— a people who are still in the gristle, and not hardened into... | |
 | Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - Offshore whaling - 1839 - 426 pages
...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 pursued by this recent people, — a people who are still in the gristle, and not hardened into... | |
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