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Page 344 - being desirous of consolidating the relations of amity which so happily subsist between them by setting forth and fixing in a convention their views and intentions with reference to any means of communication by ship canal which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by way of the river San Juan de Nicaragua,
Page 349 - Whatever highway may be constructed across the barrier dividing the two greatest maritime areas of the world must be for the world's benefit, a trust for mankind, to be removed from the chance of domination by any single power, nor become a point of invitation for hostilities or a prize for warlike ambition.
Page 375 - was a flame of fire. With a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical events and dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eye into futurity, and a torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried
Page 653 - I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless ; That only men, incredulous of despair, Half taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward to God's throne, in loud access Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness In souls, as countries, lieth silent, bare, Under the blenching, vertical eye-glare Of the absolute heavens!
Page 345 - will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship canal ; " and " that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof.
Page 30 - a certain great man is most damnably deficient He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties. If I stay in this province I risk myself and army, and if I do not stay the province is lost forever. . . . Our counsels have been weak to the last degree. As to yourself, if
Page 431 - KNOW of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. In any constitutional state in Europe, every sort of religious and political theory may
Page 666 - white head bowed and reverently lowered eyes, the old man solemnly read on : — '•'And grant, 0 most merciful Father, for his sake ; That we may hereafter live a
Page 345 - which they have entered into with each other, to the end that all other states may share in the honor and advantage of having contributed to a work of such general interest and importance.
Page 550 - inveterate teary jests over the state of things at home. He wrote once, with sickness, poverty, and despair at his elbow : " If God should ease us with burials, I know not how to perform even that. But I flatter myself that I am dying, too, for I cannot waste faster