 | Samuel Eagle Forman - Industries - 1928 - 536 pages
...to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We know, that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea, but what is vexed with their fisheries. No climate,... | |
 | Elmo Paul Hohman - Whalers (Persons) - 1928 - 410 pages
...England people carry on the whale fishery. . . . We learn, that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea, but what is vexed with their fisheries — no... | |
 | William Wilson Cook - Aliens - 1929 - 464 pages
...but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude... | |
 | North American review - 1929 - 788 pages
...antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South . . . while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. So THEY waxed tall and comely in their sea-boots; their... | |
 | Peter Duignan, Lewis H. Gann, L. H. Gann - History - 1987 - 470 pages
..."Look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishers . . . We know that whilst some of them draw the line and...coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil."1 Although whalers were not engaged in commerce in the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated...line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, was known as the Roman Charity. Cimon was a prisoner, kept alive by the milk of his daughter Xanthippe.... | |
 | Hershel Parker - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 1010 pages
...we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold. * * * Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 pages
...but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated...coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Law of the sea - 1999 - 476 pages
...but a stage and a resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry; nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated...coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea, but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political Science - 2000 - 540 pages
...but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated...coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantick game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate... | |
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We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. 
