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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... less than piracy , and in the other than an extortion . Resistance to the Sound Dues is comparatively an unimportant matter except in its moral effects , but resistance to the prohibitory duties on Turkish exports reopens the whole of ...
... less than piracy , and in the other than an extortion . Resistance to the Sound Dues is comparatively an unimportant matter except in its moral effects , but resistance to the prohibitory duties on Turkish exports reopens the whole of ...
Page xiv
... less inclined to be absorbed by Russia than the Greeks . When struggling for political existence , they looked on her as the victorious power that was to come to their assistance , but they rejected the proffered hand so soon as they ...
... less inclined to be absorbed by Russia than the Greeks . When struggling for political existence , they looked on her as the victorious power that was to come to their assistance , but they rejected the proffered hand so soon as they ...
Page xvii
... less ac- ceptable : its interest lies not in the immediate facts , but in the motives and position of the parties to which this volume addresses itself . The actual alarm which affords so favourable a conjuncture for its ap- pearance ...
... less ac- ceptable : its interest lies not in the immediate facts , but in the motives and position of the parties to which this volume addresses itself . The actual alarm which affords so favourable a conjuncture for its ap- pearance ...
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... less than six foreign ministers , any one of whom by a couple of lines could have caused it to cease , and must have caused it to cease unless he had taken the other course , there will nothing invidious in detailing the , reasons which ...
... less than six foreign ministers , any one of whom by a couple of lines could have caused it to cease , and must have caused it to cease unless he had taken the other course , there will nothing invidious in detailing the , reasons which ...
Page xxxix
... less a relief to the People than a profit to the Treasury . The next step in contem- plation was one which would have burst the fetters in which its agricultural resources are at * The Aachener Zeitung , of the 24th June , gives as news ...
... less a relief to the People than a profit to the Treasury . The next step in contem- plation was one which would have burst the fetters in which its agricultural resources are at * The Aachener Zeitung , of the 24th June , gives as news ...
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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.
Page 258 - Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia...
Page 258 - His Majesty the King of Prussia, His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and His Majesty the King of...
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...