impracticability

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General Observations on the Impracticability of a North-East or North-West Passage from the Atlantic into the Pacific Ocean.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Impracticability of resistance.It is true, amidst all these turbulent means of security to their system, very great discontents everywhere prevail.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Impracticability for sledge expedition, Nansen’s consideration on possibility of, I, 584.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Nansen, Fridtjof

Head Quarters, Newburgh, June 24th, 1782,102 Impracticability of the plan of operations abovementioned.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI by Sparks, Jared

However the Commissioners at Length gave up this Point on my Opinion of the Impracticability being confirmed by that of an Officer of the Navy distinguished for his Abilities and Skill in Matters of Astronomy.

From Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne, Under the Authority of the Board of Longitude by Harrison, John