 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann - 1850 - 472 pages
...than has hitherto been possible with the tedious, disagreeable, and expensive voyage round Cape Horn. I therefore repeat, that it is absolutely indispensable...Pacific Ocean ; and I am certain that they will do it. " Would that I might live to see it ! — but I shall not. I should like to see another thing, —... | |
 | 1897 - 1166 pages
...maintained between the east and west shores of North America, both by merchant ships and by men-of-war. I therefore repeat that it is absolutely indispensable...Pacific Ocean, and I am certain that they will do it." Every President of the United States since and including Monroe has favored building an isthmian canal... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...for the furtherance of a great intercourse between China and the East Indies and the United States. I therefore repeat that it is absolutely indispensable...Pacific Ocean ; and I am certain that they will do it. ' Would that I might live to see it ! but I shall not. I should like to see another thing, a junction... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1883 - 884 pages
...than has hitherto been possible with the tedious, disagreeable, and expensive voyage round Cape Horn.- I therefore repeat, that it is absolutely "indispensable...Pacific Ocean ; and I am certain that they will do it. " Would that I might live to see it ! — but I shall not. I should like to see another thing — a... | |
 | Mahlon M. Yeakle - 1889 - 344 pages
...than has hitherto been possible with the tedious, disagreeable and expensive voyage around Cape Horn. I therefore repeat that it is absolutely indispensable...Mexican Gulf to the Pacific Ocean; and I am certain they will do it." In that same notable conversation Ga-the said that he should like to see ' • England... | |
 | Oregon. Board of Horticulture - 1894 - 606 pages
...than has hitherto been possible with the tedious, disagreeable, and expensive voyage round Cape Horn. I, therefore, repeat that it is absolutely indispensable...passage from the Mexican Gulf to the Pacific Ocean, and 1 am certain that they will do it." General Grant, in 1881, said: "I commend an American canal on American... | |
 | Archibald Ross Colquhoun - 1895 - 508 pages
...than has hitherto been possible with the tedious, disagreeable, and expensive voyage round Cape Horn. I therefore repeat that it is absolutely indispensable...Pacific Ocean, and I am certain that they will do it." " As already mentioned, Napoleon III. was nearly anticipating by some thirty years the attempt of Lesseps... | |
 | ARCHIBALD ROSS COLQUHOUN - 1898 - 836 pages
...than has hitherto been possible with the tedious, disagreeable, and expensive voyage round Cape Horn. I therefore repeat, that it is absolutely indispensable...Pacific Ocean ; and I am certain that they will do it. " ' Would that I might live to see it!—but I shall not. I should like to see another thing,—a junction... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1901 - 418 pages
...than has hitherto been possible with the tedious, disagreeable, and expensive voyage round Cape Horn. I therefore repeat, that it is absolutely indispensable...Pacific Ocean ; and I am certain that they will do it. " Would that I might live to see it ! — but I shall not. I should like to see another thing — a... | |
 | Willis Fletcher Johnson - 1906 - 542 pages
...than has hitherto been possible with the tedious, disagreeable, and expensive voyage around Cape Horn. I therefore repeat that it is absolutely indispensable...Pacific Ocean: and I am certain that they will do it. ... I should like to see another thing,—a junction of the Danube and the Rhine, but this undertaking... | |
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I therefore repeat, that it is absolutely indispensable for the United States to effect a passage from the Mexican Gulf to the Pacific Ocean ; and I am certain that they will do it. 
