 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
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 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... | |
 | Domenico Alberto Azuni - Maritime law - 1806 - 462 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...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. —... | |
 | Samuel Blodget - Business & Economics - 1806 - 258 pages
...activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprize, 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 yet hardened into... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 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... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the 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... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1816 - 458 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."... | |
 | Barent Gardenier - United States - 1814 - 442 pages
...ourselves ? When in our infancy ; when, to use the language of one of our warmest friends, " we were in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood," with a government weak and disorganized-; a people distracted ; without .funds; without resources,... | |
 | Andrews Norton - Religious education - 1818 - 1164 pages
...individual not very aged may reach hack to the time, when we were, as Mr. Burke described us, ' a people but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood ;' that before that time, little literary labor was to be expected from the poor and hardy adventurers... | |
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