The Life of Jameson, Volume 2E. Arnold and Company, 1922 - Jameson's Raid, 1895-1896 |
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... miles through the centre of the Transvaal , about 30 miles to the south of Pretoria , runs a range of cold , bare uplands , some 6500 feet above the sea , but not very much higher above the surrounding plateau than the Downs above the ...
... miles through the centre of the Transvaal , about 30 miles to the south of Pretoria , runs a range of cold , bare uplands , some 6500 feet above the sea , but not very much higher above the surrounding plateau than the Downs above the ...
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... miles along the surface of the ground , sometimes sharp and clear , at other times overlaid by drifts of red sand . It lay upon a cant , so much was to be seen upon the surface , though how far it went down was a mystery . And wherever ...
... miles along the surface of the ground , sometimes sharp and clear , at other times overlaid by drifts of red sand . It lay upon a cant , so much was to be seen upon the surface , though how far it went down was a mystery . And wherever ...
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... miles like a seam of coal . Struben , as we may suppose , was not himself ex- pansive over this discovery ; but he had some leaky vessels among his men , and in May 1886 one of them , a South African Dutchman called Bantjes , showed ...
... miles like a seam of coal . Struben , as we may suppose , was not himself ex- pansive over this discovery ; but he had some leaky vessels among his men , and in May 1886 one of them , a South African Dutchman called Bantjes , showed ...
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... miles away from and thousands of feet above the sea . It was a community like Kimberley , only bigger and more volatile - energetic , intent upon its own interests , elevated or depressed according as its engineers and chemists were ...
... miles away from and thousands of feet above the sea . It was a community like Kimberley , only bigger and more volatile - energetic , intent upon its own interests , elevated or depressed according as its engineers and chemists were ...
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... miles in extent , and certainly there was only one man who thought of adding another 1000 miles . . . to the end of Lake Tanganyika . ' Rhodes had found the means to annex a country as large 6 1 January 18 , 1895. For the speech see p ...
... miles in extent , and certainly there was only one man who thought of adding another 1000 miles . . . to the end of Lake Tanganyika . ' Rhodes had found the means to annex a country as large 6 1 January 18 , 1895. For the speech see p ...
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Page 243 - If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: «Hold on!
Page 208 - Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours, and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever; common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.
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Page 273 - ... for that a friend is far more than himself. Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart: the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him.
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Page 206 - Here— here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form, Lightnings are loosened, Stars come and go! Let joy break with the storm, Peace let the dew send! Lofty designs must close in like effects: Loftily lying, Leave him — still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying.
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Page 200 - He wrote on April 22nd, 1902. The Boer War had a month to go. Rhodes was dead a month. He died at the age of forty-eight, less pleasantly than he had supposed people did die of heart disease. ' At any rate, Jameson, death from the heart is clean and quick. There's nothing repulsive about it. It's a clean death, isn't it ? ' But they say the heat at Cape Town that summer was a plague.