 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...  The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page 228by Edmund Burke - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Domenico Alberto Azuni - Maritime law - 1806 - 462 pages
...dexterous and firm sagacity " of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of " hardy industry, to the extent to which it has been pushed...are still, as it were, but in " the gristle, and not hardened into the bone of manhood." Burke's Speech, for conciliation u'Hli tie American colonies. —... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent N people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous...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 Davis - United States - 1822 - 410 pages
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. NAVAL ANNALS. June 18, The Orders in Council, though ostensibly a 1812. belligerent retaliation on... | |
 | John Davis - 1823 - 416 pages
...of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to whieh it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. Address to the Electors of Bristol. NAVAL ANNALS. June 18, The Orders in Council, though ostensibly... | |
 | John Davis - United States - 1822 - 404 pages
...erer carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to- the extent to whidi it has heen pushed hy this recent people ; a people who are still, as it...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. Address to the Electors of Bristol, NAVAL ANNALS. June 18, The Orders in Council, though ostensibly... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...the dextrous and firm sagucity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hirdy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...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;... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - History - 1824 - 532 pages
...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France* nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous...recent people — a people who are still as it were in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." * This splendid eulogium on the enterprise... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1828 - 760 pages
...perilous mode of hardy industry, to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet...colonies, in general, owe little or nothing to any c»re of ours, and that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to... | |
 | Salma Hale - America - 1827 - 490 pages
...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 pushed...contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the... | |
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