Cyclopedic Review of Current History, Volume 11Garretson, Cox & Company, 1902 - History |
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... north Pacific coast , to which Manchuria opens her best approach . It gives her the true inland base for her great new port and naval station at Port Arthur . This new advance has little relation to her trade with China , in which ...
... north Pacific coast , to which Manchuria opens her best approach . It gives her the true inland base for her great new port and naval station at Port Arthur . This new advance has little relation to her trade with China , in which ...
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... north in the Vaal River Colony westward from Pretoria . At the south , De Wet , the dashing guerilla chief , was appearing and vanishing in the region of the Orange river , making occasional captures on a small scale , but chiefly ...
... north in the Vaal River Colony westward from Pretoria . At the south , De Wet , the dashing guerilla chief , was appearing and vanishing in the region of the Orange river , making occasional captures on a small scale , but chiefly ...
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... north- ward . His attempt cost him three guns , about fifty killed , and a large amount of ammunition . Various Conflicts . The Boers , in the remoter north , 3,000 to 5,000 , under Delarey and others , gained a decided success , De ...
... north- ward . His attempt cost him three guns , about fifty killed , and a large amount of ammunition . Various Conflicts . The Boers , in the remoter north , 3,000 to 5,000 , under Delarey and others , gained a decided success , De ...
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... north . There is no sign thus far of any dis- arrangement of Kitchener's general plan ; meanwhile the mounted force which he so greatly needs has been steadily in preparation to take its place in the campaign . The Fall of DeWet . This ...
... north . There is no sign thus far of any dis- arrangement of Kitchener's general plan ; meanwhile the mounted force which he so greatly needs has been steadily in preparation to take its place in the campaign . The Fall of DeWet . This ...
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... north- eastern Luzon , by a detachment of the 16th Infantry . About the same date a detachment of the 49th Infantry at- tacked a barrio on the Cagayan river and drove out the insurgents , of whom they killed many : 1000 rounds of am ...
... north- eastern Luzon , by a detachment of the 16th Infantry . About the same date a detachment of the 49th Infantry at- tacked a barrio on the Cagayan river and drove out the insurgents , of whom they killed many : 1000 rounds of am ...
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Page 219 - It is, of course, too early to forecast the means of attaining this last result; but the policy of the Government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire.
Page 326 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 377 - ... bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever; and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other saint and the sacrifice of the mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous.
Page 504 - States guarantee, positively and efficaciously, to New Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned Isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists ; and in consequence, 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.
Page 552 - A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued healthful growth of our export trade. We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing.
Page 377 - And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify and declare, That I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English protestants, without any evasion, equivocation or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 114 - II. That said government shall not assume or contract any public debt, to pay the interest upon which, and to make reasonable sinking fund provision for the ultimate discharge of which, the ordinary revenues of the island, after defraying the current expenses of government shall be inadequate.
Page 326 - Works done by unregenerate men, although, for the matter of them, they may be things which God commands, and of good use both to themselves and others...
Page 377 - Christ, at or after the consecration thereof, by any person whatsoever ; and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the Mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous.