The American Monthly Review of Reviews, Volume 21Albert Shaw Review of Reviews, 1900 |
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... important ways the course of history is modified by the manner in which mankind agrees to shape affairs to correspond with measures of time to which custom has attached importance . Thus doubtless the nearness of the transition from one ...
... important ways the course of history is modified by the manner in which mankind agrees to shape affairs to correspond with measures of time to which custom has attached importance . Thus doubtless the nearness of the transition from one ...
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... important above all things that each successive step should be taken in an orderly and respon- sible manner . and the situation does not call for precipitancy or mere experiment . Brig . Gen. Leonard Wood , whose management of the gov ...
... important above all things that each successive step should be taken in an orderly and respon- sible manner . and the situation does not call for precipitancy or mere experiment . Brig . Gen. Leonard Wood , whose management of the gov ...
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... important new standing committees of the Sen- ate . One of these , of which Senator Foraker has been made chairman , will consider all mat- ters affecting our relations with Cuba . Another , of which Senator Lodge is chairman , will ...
... important new standing committees of the Sen- ate . One of these , of which Senator Foraker has been made chairman , will consider all mat- ters affecting our relations with Cuba . Another , of which Senator Lodge is chairman , will ...
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... important results . Colonel Hay's great good fortune , the corner- stone of his successful career , was his early as- sociation with Abraham Lincoln . He is the only survivor in prominent place of Lincoln's men , and is distinguished ...
... important results . Colonel Hay's great good fortune , the corner- stone of his successful career , was his early as- sociation with Abraham Lincoln . He is the only survivor in prominent place of Lincoln's men , and is distinguished ...
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... important di- plomatic positions at Paris , Vienna , and Madrid , to which he was successively appointed after he had ren- dered his last service at the grave of his great captain . It was while he was at Madrid that he wrote those ...
... important di- plomatic positions at Paris , Vienna , and Madrid , to which he was successively appointed after he had ren- dered his last service at the grave of his great captain . It was while he was at Madrid that he wrote those ...
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Page 55 - Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to require the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of not intruding upon, interfering with, or entangling itself in the political questions of policy or internal administration of any foreign state; nor shall anything contained in the said convention be construed to imply a relinquishment by the United States of America of its traditional attitude toward purely American questions.
Page 332 - ... any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the interoceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
Page 449 - Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former are expressly prohibited by the declarations prefixed to some of the State Constitutions, and all of them are prohibited by the spirit and scope of these fundamental charters. Our...
Page 330 - Canal, that is to say: 1. The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations...
Page 443 - ... in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction, the judgment of the directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive...
Page 331 - V. The contracting parties further engage that, when the said canal shall have been completed, they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal for ever will be open and free, and the capital invested therein, secure.
Page 331 - In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done in duplicate at Washington the eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Page 110 - How eager all the Earth is for the blow Which shall lay bare her bosom to the sword ; How all the nations deem her their worst foe, That worse than worst of foes, the once adored False friend, who held out Freedom to Mankind, And now would chain them — to the very mind...
Page 330 - Vessels of war of a belligerent shall not revictual nor take any stores in the canal except so far as may be strictly necessary; and the transit of such vessels through the canal shall be effected with the least possible delay...
Page 323 - Senate having under consideration the bill to promote the commerce and increase the foreign trade of the United States and to provide auxiliary cruisers, transports, and seamen for government use when necessary.] MK.