Triumphant Democracy: Sixty Years' March of the RepublicC. Scribner's sons, 1893 - 549 páginas |
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... Forty short years sufficed to reverse the positions . of the respective countries . In 1890 the Monarchy was possessed of a golden load of no less than ten thousand five hundred millions sterling . Just pause a moment to see how this ...
... Forty short years sufficed to reverse the positions . of the respective countries . In 1890 the Monarchy was possessed of a golden load of no less than ten thousand five hundred millions sterling . Just pause a moment to see how this ...
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... forty millions of Russians , Austrians , and Spaniards ; or , after purchasing wealthy France , would have enough pocket money to acquire Denmark , Norway , Switzerland , and Greece . The young republican could even buy the home of his ...
... forty millions of Russians , Austrians , and Spaniards ; or , after purchasing wealthy France , would have enough pocket money to acquire Denmark , Norway , Switzerland , and Greece . The young republican could even buy the home of his ...
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... forty - seven per cent . What the old home has lost , the new has gained . France and Germany each earned but a shade over five per cent . In addition to the rigged vessels the Republic has four millions of tons , unrigged vessels ...
... forty - seven per cent . What the old home has lost , the new has gained . France and Germany each earned but a shade over five per cent . In addition to the rigged vessels the Republic has four millions of tons , unrigged vessels ...
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... forty millions sterling are annually paid , a greater sum than the railway freightage of Great Britain , France , and Italy collectively , and more than is earned by all the ships in the world , exclusive of America's own earnings from ...
... forty millions sterling are annually paid , a greater sum than the railway freightage of Great Britain , France , and Italy collectively , and more than is earned by all the ships in the world , exclusive of America's own earnings from ...
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... forty- four States of the American continent free to tax the products of the others we should soon see the dissolution of the great Republic into warring factions . If any one doubts that free trade in internal exchanges among a people ...
... forty- four States of the American continent free to tax the products of the others we should soon see the dissolution of the great Republic into warring factions . If any one doubts that free trade in internal exchanges among a people ...
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acres agricultural Ameri American amount architecture army Atlantic Austria-Hungary average Britain British Briton capital census cent Chicago church cities citizen civilization Colombia colonies commerce continent cost cotton debt decade Democracy England English equal establishments Europe European exports farms fifty five foreign forty four hundred German greater growth half Herbert Spencer hundred thousand immigration Imperial Federation important improvement increase industry inhabitants institutions labor land laws less Lick Observatory Lord Salisbury manufactures Massachusetts ment miles millions of dollars Monarchy nation native native American natural nearly never paupers peace Pittsburgh political population pounds present President proportion race railroad railway rapidly Republic republican result reunion rivers schools Scotland Senate shows square miles steamboat steel supply three hundred tion to-day towns trade twenty Union United United Kingdom Washington wealth York
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Página 141 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation that should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain!
Página 1 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : Methinks I see her as an Eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 402 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers ; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us...
Página 227 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies: She drew an angel down.
Página 165 - For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
Página 432 - He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages.
Página 149 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Página 182 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Página 511 - No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of threepence. But no commodity will bear threepence, or will bear a penny, when the general feelings of men are irritated, and two millions of people are resolved not to pay. The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment...
Página 510 - ... we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.