Diplomatic Portraits: Europe and the Monroe Doctrine One Hundred Years Ago

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Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1923 - 370 páginas
 

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Página 124 - All were fat; and well they might Be in admirable plight, For one by one, and two by two, He tossed them human hearts to chew, Which from his wide cloak he drew.
Página 158 - Conformably to the words of the Holy Scriptures, which command all men to consider each other as brethren, the Three contracting Monarchs will remain united by the bonds of a true and indissoluble fraternity...
Página 319 - A / View / of the / Conduct of the Execu'tive, / in the / Foreign Affairs / of the /United States, / connected -with the Mission to the / French Republic, / during the years 1794, 5, & 6.
Página 119 - No — through th' extended globe his feelings run, As broad and general as th' unbounded sun ! No narrow bigot he ; his reason'd view Thy interests, England, ranks with thine, Peru! France at our doors, he sees no danger nigh, But heaves for Turkey's woes th' impartial sigh ; A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country — but his own.
Página 307 - The question with regard to Spanish America is now, I believe, disposed of, or nearly so; for an event has recently happened than which none has ever dispersed greater joy, exultation, and gratitude over all the free men of Europe: that event, which is decisive on the subject, is the language held with respect to Spanish America in the message of the President of the United States.
Página 350 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us.
Página 217 - ... recognition of the independence of Buenos Aires during the next session of Congress. Consideration of their actions reveal their ambitions to make of the American Continent one Grand Confederated Republic at the head of which will be found the United States. In the actual state of affairs, the United States centralizes all its efforts in developing its resources and population. It is directed by a moderate policy and does not offer a menace to Europe. This would not continue to be the case should...
Página 227 - As to an American system, we have it; we constitute the whole of it; there is no community of interests or of principles between North and South America.
Página 226 - As a general declaration of principles, . . . the United States not only give their hearty assent to the articles of the Holy Alliance but they will be among the most earnest and conscientious in observing them.
Página 303 - Leave the Spanish revolution to burn itself out within its own crater. You have nothing to apprehend from the eruption, if you do not open a channel for the lava through the Pyrenees.

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