 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 of...  American Diplomacy in the Orient - Page 103by John Watson Foster - 1903 - 498 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...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 people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things... | |
 | Domenico Alberto Azuni - Maritime law - 1806 - 462 pages
...firm sagacity " of English enterprise, ever carried 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 hardened into the bone of manhood." Burke's Speech, for conciliation... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...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 people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried 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 the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried 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 the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...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 people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...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 people ; a people who are still, as it were, but ki the gristle, aud not yet hardened into the bone of c manhood. When I contemplate these things... | |
 | John Sanderson - United States - 1823 - 300 pages
...dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people, who are still, as it were, in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." In the beginning... | |
 | John Davis - United States - 1822 - 410 pages
...and firm sagacity of English enterprize, ever carried 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 the bone of manhood. NAVAL ANNALS. June 18, The Orders... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...and firm sagucity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hirdy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it ere, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things;... | |
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