The Life of Jameson, Volume 2E. Arnold and Company, 1922 - Jameson's Raid, 1895-1896 |
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... railway which reached Johannesburg in September 1892. It was only beginning that great expansion which reached its summit three years later , and with the gloom of the slump still upon it , it had been fighting a fierce but fruitless ...
... railway which reached Johannesburg in September 1892. It was only beginning that great expansion which reached its summit three years later , and with the gloom of the slump still upon it , it had been fighting a fierce but fruitless ...
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... railways up through the Orange Free State to the banks of the Vaal . ' One State from the Cape Peninsula to the Zambesi with inter - free trade ' would , he con- cluded , be of ' enormous benefit to South Africa and the Empire . ' Also ...
... railways up through the Orange Free State to the banks of the Vaal . ' One State from the Cape Peninsula to the Zambesi with inter - free trade ' would , he con- cluded , be of ' enormous benefit to South Africa and the Empire . ' Also ...
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... railway union , with the Cape as ' the predominant partner , ' would bring the political union about ; but he saw also the obstacle in the Transvaal of Paul Kruger and his 15,000 armed Boers . Such considerations lead to another part of ...
... railway union , with the Cape as ' the predominant partner , ' would bring the political union about ; but he saw also the obstacle in the Transvaal of Paul Kruger and his 15,000 armed Boers . Such considerations lead to another part of ...
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... railway to Mafeking in British Bechuanaland rendered the approach to Johannesburg easy of accomplishment across a country ill adapted for defence , but open for the advance of a small well - organised force . If there was a sudden ...
... railway to Mafeking in British Bechuanaland rendered the approach to Johannesburg easy of accomplishment across a country ill adapted for defence , but open for the advance of a small well - organised force . If there was a sudden ...
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... railways , 1 Lord Loch in his statement in the House of Lords ( May 1 , 1896 ) said : ' The steps I took were in connection with an assembly at certain points of the British and Imperial Bechuanaland Police . My intention was that if ...
... railways , 1 Lord Loch in his statement in the House of Lords ( May 1 , 1896 ) said : ' The steps I took were in connection with an assembly at certain points of the British and Imperial Bechuanaland Police . My intention was that if ...
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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.
Page 110 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
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.
Page 75 - The rumour of massacre in Johannesburg that started you to our relief was not true. We are all right, feeling intense. We have armed a lot of men. Shall be very glad to see you. We are not in possession...
Page 51 - Goold" Adams arrives Mafeking Monday, and Heany, I think, arrives to-night ; after seeing '• him, you and we must judge regarding flotation, but all our foreign friends are now '• dead against it and say public will not subscribe one penny towards it even with you
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.
Page 36 - It is under these circumstances that we feel constrained to call upon you to come to our aid should a disturbance arise here. The circumstances are so extreme that we cannot but believe that you and the men under you will not fail to come to the rescue of people who will be so situated. We guarantee any expense that may reasonably be incurred by you in helping us, and ask you to believe that nothing but • the sternest necessity has prompted this appeal.
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.