 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
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 498 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 580 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Massachusetts - 1848 - 390 pages
...English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it had been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 600 pages
...activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever earned this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this'recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Literary Criticism - 1848 - 662 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 by this recent • Dwight's Travels. people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Massachusetts - 1849 - 396 pages
...English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it had been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1849 - 336 pages
...mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has bcen pushed by this recent people; a people whe are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manheod. Through a wise and salutary negleet, a generous nature has bcen suffered to take her own way... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Commercial products - 1849 - 164 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 manhood."... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - Local history - 1850 - 354 pages
...the dexterous and 'Am 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." This trait in our character has since extended and been developed over the whole country, though in... | |
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