Progress of Russia in the West, North, and South: By Opening the Sources of Opinion and Appropriating the Channels of Wealth and Power |
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... hands of the Czar would facilitate the subjugation of others . The Christian subjects of Turkey , born and bred under the habits of Mussulman toleration , filled with the most extra- vagant ambition by Muscovite art , will not resign in ...
... hands of the Czar would facilitate the subjugation of others . The Christian subjects of Turkey , born and bred under the habits of Mussulman toleration , filled with the most extra- vagant ambition by Muscovite art , will not resign in ...
Page xiv
... hands , must command the globe . What I have here said regarding the Greek and Russian Churches has been recently to ... hand so soon as they perceived that it was more inclined to impose than to remove fetters . " I cannot omit noticing ...
... hands , must command the globe . What I have here said regarding the Greek and Russian Churches has been recently to ... hand so soon as they perceived that it was more inclined to impose than to remove fetters . " I cannot omit noticing ...
Page xx
... hands have wove and placed , is round her neck , and a quivering of life . scarce remains in her limbs ; * a gun brig , with a will behind it , might have saved the Baltic ; but , alas ! your ludicrous ships - of - the - line were ...
... hands have wove and placed , is round her neck , and a quivering of life . scarce remains in her limbs ; * a gun brig , with a will behind it , might have saved the Baltic ; but , alas ! your ludicrous ships - of - the - line were ...
Page xli
... grain ( value £ 12,000,000 ) , is in the hands of the Greek merchants of the Mediterranean , " - Bankers ' Circular , July 2nd , 1853 . с wholly distinct from the original quarrel with Turkey , but THE DARDANELLES . xl.
... grain ( value £ 12,000,000 ) , is in the hands of the Greek merchants of the Mediterranean , " - Bankers ' Circular , July 2nd , 1853 . с wholly distinct from the original quarrel with Turkey , but THE DARDANELLES . xl.
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... hand and friendly caution on the other . General Valentini describes the last war as a com- bat between a blind man and a secing one ; and that war occurred when Turkey was in a state of total political and military disorganisation ...
... hand and friendly caution on the other . General Valentini describes the last war as a com- bat between a blind man and a secing one ; and that war occurred when Turkey was in a state of total political and military disorganisation ...
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Page 379 - Jungle swallowed up the walls,' said Hathi. 'And what more?' said Mowgli. 'As much good ground as I can walk over in two nights from the east to the west, and from the north to the south as much as I can walk over in three nights, the Jungle took.
Page 252 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister ; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing...
Page 252 - ... exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that minister. She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and the foreign ministers before important decisions are taken based upon that intercourse ; to receive the foreign despatches in good time, and to have the drafts for her approval sent to her in sufficient time to make herself acquainted with their contents before they must be sent off.
Page 36 - We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.
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Page 432 - Alleganies, and its great sides swelling to the East and to the West, where do you find its immense limbs terminate? Not on some great plain which has been formed for their reception, but in two great oceans, the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on the other. The figure explains the true interests of the country, in the inseparable union and necessary dependence of agriculture and commerce. The God of Nature did not give to the United States a coast of two thousand miles in extent, not to...
Page 260 - London, at the expiration of six months from the date hereof, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.
Page 315 - ... and for this purpose to name commissioners who should adopt as the bases of their proceedings certain principles, the chief of which was that the navigation of such rivers, "along their whole course, . . . from the point where each of them becomes navigable to its mouth shall be entirely free, and shall not, in respect to commerce, be prohibited to any one," subject to regulations of police.
Page 240 - II. The High Contracting Parties, acknowledging as permanent the principle of the integrity of the Danish Monarchy, engage to take into consideration the further propositions which His Majesty the King of Denmark may deem it expedient to address to them...