The Americanisation of the World Or The Trend of the Twentieth Century"Review of Reviews" Office, 1902 - 182 pages |
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Page 11
... Exports Area . Revenue . Railways . Shipping . and Imports . United Kingdom Sq . Miles . 121,000 Miles . Tons . Colonies and Depen- dencies II , 429,000 TOTAL . II , 550,000 United States 3,700,000 GRAND TOTAL • . 15,250,000 54,000 ...
... Exports Area . Revenue . Railways . Shipping . and Imports . United Kingdom Sq . Miles . 121,000 Miles . Tons . Colonies and Depen- dencies II , 429,000 TOTAL . II , 550,000 United States 3,700,000 GRAND TOTAL • . 15,250,000 54,000 ...
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... exported it , in spirit though not in form , with results not even yet fully worked out . Montes- quieu , by his eulogistic panegyric upon the English Constitution in his " Esprit des Loix , " Esprit des Loix , " became the Godfather of ...
... exported it , in spirit though not in form , with results not even yet fully worked out . Montes- quieu , by his eulogistic panegyric upon the English Constitution in his " Esprit des Loix , " Esprit des Loix , " became the Godfather of ...
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... export every year nearly five million pounds worth of diamonds to all parts of the world . Upon these dia- monds the ... exported to South Africa goods valued at twenty million dollars , not including imports for military use or American ...
... export every year nearly five million pounds worth of diamonds to all parts of the world . Upon these dia- monds the ... exported to South Africa goods valued at twenty million dollars , not including imports for military use or American ...
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... exporting American goods to the customers who will be left alive at the close of the war . Few things seem less ... export of sugar . In August , 1896 , Germany and Austria doubled their bounties , and the following spring France ...
... exporting American goods to the customers who will be left alive at the close of the war . Few things seem less ... export of sugar . In August , 1896 , Germany and Austria doubled their bounties , and the following spring France ...
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... export of sugar was only 40,000 tons . Last year she exported 100,000 tons . In 1901 it is expected that her export will reach 150,000 tons . The production of coffee is also going up with leaps and bounds . It is obvious that , if this ...
... export of sugar was only 40,000 tons . Last year she exported 100,000 tons . In 1901 it is expected that her export will reach 150,000 tons . The production of coffee is also going up with leaps and bounds . It is obvious that , if this ...
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Page 13 - He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 12 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 12 - Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or...
Page 155 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 150 - Such has hitherto been the rapid progress of that country in wealth, population, and improvement, that in the course of little more than a century, perhaps, the produce of American might exceed that of British taxation. The seat of the empire would then naturally remove itself to that part of the empire which contributed most to the general defence and support of the whole.
Page 12 - CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 A DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN GENERAL CONGRESS ASSEMBLED. WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's...
Page 130 - We have no title, I have no inclination, to murmur at the prospect. If she acquires it, she will make the acquisition by the right of the strongest ; but, in this instance, the strongest means the best. She will probably become what we are now, the head servant in the great household of the World, the employer of all employed ; because her service will be the most and ablest. We have no more title against her, than Venice, or Genoa, or Holland has had against us.
Page 8 - Yet, after all deductions, it ranks above every other written constitution for the intrinsic excellence of its scheme, its adaptation to the circumstances of the people, the simplicity, brevity, and precision of its language, its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle with elasticity in details.
Page 92 - That distance and three thousand miles of intervening ocean make any permanent political union between a European and an American state unnatural and inexpedient will hardly be denied.
Page 88 - The Yankees will shout in triumph, but it is they who lose most by our decision. The great danger of the time, a danger which the European system would have fostered, was a division of the world into European and American, Republican and Monarchical, a league of worn-out governments on the one hand, and of youthful and stirring States, with the United States on the other.