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Page 14
... Government defining and modifying points expressly reserved in the first concession , or of contracts entered into by the Canal Company for valuable consideration . We propose to examine all the documents which bear upon the question ...
... Government defining and modifying points expressly reserved in the first concession , or of contracts entered into by the Canal Company for valuable consideration . We propose to examine all the documents which bear upon the question ...
Page 15
... Government and even by members of it , and by the Canal Company and some of its advocates , in regard to the line of conduct of those who held a different opinion to theirs . Dishonesty and robbery are not terms usually applied to those ...
... Government and even by members of it , and by the Canal Company and some of its advocates , in regard to the line of conduct of those who held a different opinion to theirs . Dishonesty and robbery are not terms usually applied to those ...
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... Government giving a free grant of the Government land necessary for the construction ' of the canal . The use for ninety- nine years , free of taxation for ten years , of certain uncultivated lands , ' and an engagement by the Egyptian ...
... Government giving a free grant of the Government land necessary for the construction ' of the canal . The use for ninety- nine years , free of taxation for ten years , of certain uncultivated lands , ' and an engagement by the Egyptian ...
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... Government to use the canal , to occupy canal land and buildings in time of war - of private persons to settle on canal land - the legal domicile of the company , & c . With these we have at present no concern . For the purposes of our ...
... Government to use the canal , to occupy canal land and buildings in time of war - of private persons to settle on canal land - the legal domicile of the company , & c . With these we have at present no concern . For the purposes of our ...
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... Government from his existing colleagues , and from that period , with the exception of a short interval , he remained Prime Minister of England for seven years . The political history of these seven years has been written over and over ...
... Government from his existing colleagues , and from that period , with the exception of a short interval , he remained Prime Minister of England for seven years . The political history of these seven years has been written over and over ...
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Page 345 - And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 341 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands ; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things...
Page 772 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things And battles long ago; Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of today Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Page 413 - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Page 834 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet And throws the melons at our feet; But apples plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice.
Page 667 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Page 147 - From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro...
Page 12 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Page 345 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 670 - For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return : a consumption is determined, overflowing with righteousness.