...of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry (the whale fishery) to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent...gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone, of manhood," been achieved, in this respect, since the declaration of independence. Nor is the progress less remarkable...

...of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to whieh it has been pushed by this recent people, a people who are still, as it were, in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of mauhood." To what, more than lo the pressing...

...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 people." We, who from this small island have by our valour and fortune extended an empire to the furthest limits...

...daring of New England enterprise, while, as Atlantic Whale Fishery. French Whaling Fleet. Burke said, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. By the year 1771, New England, through her adventurous whale fishery, was both in the North and South...

...the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous, firm sagacity of England, ever carried this perilous mode of hardy industry...extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people—a people who are still, as it were, in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of...

...Atlantic, said in despair that our religion is "the dissidence of dissent." Americans, Burke thought, were "a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." What makes it so difficult for our own historians to capture and record the American way of life is...

...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. Despite her maritime history, however, New England did not monopolize America's shipping after the...

...activity of France, nor the dextrous and firm sagacity of English enterprize, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which...people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the grisde, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things; when I know...

...demographic growth, their populations were both comparatively young and extraordinarily dynamic. Still "in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood," in Edmund Burke 's powerful metaphor, colonial populations, Burke observed, "spread from families and...

...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 people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle and not yet hardened to the bone of manhood."8 The Impact...