The New PacificBancroft Company, 1899 - 733 pages |
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... influence , through the rich section which enjoys the English sphere of influence , to Canton , on the bor- der of the French sphere of influence . Then there are the Tientsin and Peking railway , whose locomotives were built in ...
... influence , through the rich section which enjoys the English sphere of influence , to Canton , on the bor- der of the French sphere of influence . Then there are the Tientsin and Peking railway , whose locomotives were built in ...
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... centuries , while the weak grows weaker until nothing is left . And yet , by orders of the United States in 1798 , the Napoleonic wars aiding by their influence , the • Spanish flag went down at Natchez , and the 6 THE NEW PACIFIC.
... centuries , while the weak grows weaker until nothing is left . And yet , by orders of the United States in 1798 , the Napoleonic wars aiding by their influence , the • Spanish flag went down at Natchez , and the 6 THE NEW PACIFIC.
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... influence of this ocean , exchange of products will be established with millions of people , which will keep in active operation all those who can produce from the soil , from mines , or from the mills . With this world - wide and ...
... influence of this ocean , exchange of products will be established with millions of people , which will keep in active operation all those who can produce from the soil , from mines , or from the mills . With this world - wide and ...
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... influence of progress is now rapidly invading the land . First along the seaboard , and gradually toward the interior , outside intelligence is creeping in . The old fanat- ical cry of " foreign devil " is less frequently heard , and in ...
... influence of progress is now rapidly invading the land . First along the seaboard , and gradually toward the interior , outside intelligence is creeping in . The old fanat- ical cry of " foreign devil " is less frequently heard , and in ...
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... influence in future develop- ments . This great ocean is now for the first time taking its proper place among other oceans , its commonwealths among other commonwealths , its commerce among the other com- merce of the world . And as ...
... influence in future develop- ments . This great ocean is now for the first time taking its proper place among other oceans , its commonwealths among other commonwealths , its commerce among the other com- merce of the world . And as ...
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Page 164 - The Inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States ; and in the meantime they shall be maintained!
Page 143 - 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 191 - ... prepare them for local self-government, and in due time to make such disposition of said islands as will best promote the interests of the citizens of the United States and the inhabitants of said islands.
Page 168 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe.
Page 302 - It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.
Page 45 - I shall refer to these horrible things no further. They are there. God pity me ; I have seen them ; they will remain in my mind forever — and this is almost the twentieth century. Christ died nineteen hundred years ago, and Spain is a Christian nation. She has set up more crosses in more lands, beneath more skies, and under them 'has butchered more people than all the other nations of the earth combined. Europe may tolerate her existence as long as the people of the Old World wish.
Page 618 - The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free ; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea...
Page 220 - I even go so far as to say that, terrible as war may be, even war itself would be cheaply purchased if in a great and noble cause the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack should wave together over an Anglo-Saxon alliance.