Panama: The Canal, the Country, and the PeopleMacMillan, 1911 - Počet stran: 585 |
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... dying of the dry - rot of political corruption . The French Chamber is now investigating the affairs of Guade- loupe . The scandal which started with the negro deputy has involved almost all the officials , notably the judi- ciary ...
... dying of the dry - rot of political corruption . The French Chamber is now investigating the affairs of Guade- loupe . The scandal which started with the negro deputy has involved almost all the officials , notably the judi- ciary ...
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... died , and the one effect of the quarantine was a vigorous polishing of sewer - pipes . As every one familiar with the tropics knows , a port under quarantine is clean , even if at other times it is unspeakably dirty , for quaran- tine ...
... died , and the one effect of the quarantine was a vigorous polishing of sewer - pipes . As every one familiar with the tropics knows , a port under quarantine is clean , even if at other times it is unspeakably dirty , for quaran- tine ...
Strana 154
... dying régime . To a romancer like Washington Irving the word ' chivalry " conjured up a gorgeous tapestry , woven of brave deeds , and many heroic virtues . To the modern student of history the word means an epoch when famine and plague ...
... dying régime . To a romancer like Washington Irving the word ' chivalry " conjured up a gorgeous tapestry , woven of brave deeds , and many heroic virtues . To the modern student of history the word means an epoch when famine and plague ...
Strana 159
... dying condition . The sailors left on shipboard had become desperate at the long absence of the landing party . Just ... died from arrow wounds . It was the first European settlement on the American continent . He despatched his fastest ...
... dying condition . The sailors left on shipboard had become desperate at the long absence of the landing party . Just ... died from arrow wounds . It was the first European settlement on the American continent . He despatched his fastest ...
Strana 159
... dying régime . To a romancer like Washington Irving the word chivalry " conjured up a gorgeous tapestry , woven of brave deeds , and many heroic virtues . To the modern student of history the word means an epoch when famine and plague ...
... dying régime . To a romancer like Washington Irving the word chivalry " conjured up a gorgeous tapestry , woven of brave deeds , and many heroic virtues . To the modern student of history the word means an epoch when famine and plague ...
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Strana 347 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of any other lands and waters outside of the Zone above described which may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of said Canal.
Strana 347 - the rights, power and authority . . . which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory ... to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Strana 331 - been in a constant state of flux. The following is a partial list of the disturbances on the Isthmus of Panama during the period in question as reported to us by our consuls. It is not possible to give a complete list, and some of the reports that speak of 'revolutions' must mean unsuccessful revolutions: "May 22,
Strana 343 - the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Strana 315 - is so gigantic that I have grave doubts of its completion. . . . And, thirdly and lastly, I should wish to see England in possession of a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. Would I could live to see these three great works! It would well be worth the trouble to last some fifty years more for
Strana 218 - Captain Drake, if you fortune to come to this Port, make hast away: For the Spanyards, which you had with you here the last year, have bewrayed this place, and taken away all that you left here. I departed from hence this present 7. of
Strana 343 - Maintain free and uninterrupted transit. If interruption is threatened by armed force, occupy line of railroad. Prevent landing of any armed force with hostile intent, either government or insurgent, either at Colon, Porto Bello, or other points.
Strana 170 - to which they were certainly not entitled by their poetical merits, may be thus rendered into corresponding doggerel: Look out, sefior Governor, For the drover while he's near ; Since he goes home to get the sheep For the butcher, who stays here.
Strana 170 - The letter, which was signed by several of the disaffected soldiery besides the writer, painted in gloomy colors the miseries of their condition, accused the two commanders of being the authors of this, and called on the authorities of Panama to interfere by sending a vessel to take them from the desolate spot.
Strana 185 - His career affords perhaps a solitary instance of a man, who, being neither a conqueror, a discoverer nor an inventor, has, by the pure force of benevolence, become so notable a figure, that large portions of history cannot be written, or at least cannot be understood, without the narrative of his deeds.