American and England: A Study of the United States: Its Relations with Britain: Its Part in the Great War; and Its Future InfluenceD. O'Connor, 1921 - 259 стор. |
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American and England: A Study of the United States: Its Relations with ... Charles Reginald Enock Попередній перегляд недоступний - 1921 |
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Сторінка 73 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Сторінка 233 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Сторінка 228 - Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps...
Сторінка 29 - I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Сторінка 228 - It will be all the easier for us to conduct ourselves as belligerents in a high spirit of right and fairness because we act without animus, not in enmity towards a people or with the desire to bring any injury or disadvantage upon them, but only in armed opposition to an irresponsible government which has thrown aside all considerations of humanity and of right and is running amuck.
Сторінка 225 - He takes the liberty of calling attention to the fact that the objects, which the statesmen of the belligerents on both sides have in mind in this war, are virtually the same, as stated in general terms to their own people and to the world. Each side desires to make the rights and privileges of weak peoples and small States as secure against aggression or denial in the future as the rights and privileges of the great and powerful States now at war.
Сторінка 64 - I remember the sea-fight far away, How it thundered o'er the tide! And the dead captains, as they lay In their graves, o'e'rlooking the tranquil bay Where they in battle died. And the sound of that mournful song Goes through me with a thrill: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Сторінка 38 - They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy; but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
Сторінка 20 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Сторінка 228 - ... exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.