 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
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 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...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things, when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 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. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to... | |
 | Commerce - 1845 - 604 pages
...colonial times ; when, in the language of Burke, " they were a recent people — still, as it were, in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." Shall we track them now in other similar paths of enterprise ; or shall we rather, remembering the... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - Banks and banking - 1845 - 624 pages
...colonial times ; when, in the language of Burke, " they were a recent people — still, as it were, in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." Shall we track them now in other similar paths of enterprise ; or shall we rather, remembering the... | |
 | 1845 - 604 pages
...old colonial times; when, in the language of Burke, "they were a recent people — still, as it were, in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." Shall we track them now in other similar paths of enterprise ; or shall we rather, remembering the... | |
 | Political science - 1846 - 982 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." In 1843 the imports from the whole fishery into the United States,... | |
 | Economics - 1846 - 594 pages
...activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried that most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pursued by this recent people : a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not... | |
 | Political dictionary - 1846 - 976 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." In 1843 the imports from the whole fishery into the United States,... | |
 | William Shaw Russell - Massachusetts - 1846 - 450 pages
...activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried their 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.'... | |
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