| Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 350 стор.
...world's eye and in history is superlative : it is the American Republic. She is the eldest born. She has, taking the capacity of her land into view as...greatest continuous empire ever established by man. And it may be well here to mention what has not always been sufficiently observed, that the distinction... | |
| James Stephen Jeans - 1885 - 484 стор.
...a right to expect. CHAPTER XXVI. ENGLAND'S FUTURE IN RELATION TO THE UNITED STA TES. " The students of the future, in the department of political philosophy,...greatest industrial nations of either modern or ancient times—the United Kingdom and the United States. But the effect of the growth and competition of these... | |
| Josiah Strong - 1885 - 260 стор.
...Hudson River, once, and again, and again — three times. Well may Mr. Gladstone say that we have " a natural base for the greatest continuous empire ever established by man ;" and well may the English premier add: "And the distinction between continuous empire and empire... | |
| Josiah Strong - 1885 - 266 стор.
...Hudson Eiver, once, and again, and again — three times. Well may Mr. Gladstone say that we have " a natural base for the greatest continuous empire ever established by man ;" and well may the English premier add: "And the distinction between continuous empire and empire... | |
| 1886 - 562 стор.
...world's eye and in history is superlative : it is the American republic. She is the eldest born. She has, taking the capacity of her land into view as...greatest continuous empire ever established by man. And it may be well here to mention what has not always been sufficiently observed — that the distinction... | |
| 1886 - 224 стор.
...age as these which the Americans are now moving on. In 1878, Gladstone said: "The United States have a natural base for the greatest continuous empire ever established by man." And the frontier in question rounds up and crowns this empire with symmetry and wholeness. 4. The reasonable... | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1888 - 236 стор.
...ever, cease to be the most valuable part of our whole national domain, described by Mr. Gladstone as " a natural base for the greatest continuous empire ever established by man." The man curious about " what might have been " cannot help speculating on the course of history provided... | |
| William Barrows - 1887 - 460 стор.
...Gladstone takes the quality as well as the quantity of our territory into view when he says that we have " a natural base for the greatest continuous empire ever established by man." If the British or the Eussian Empire be put in comparison with us in extent, either is double our own... | |
| Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1888 - 436 стор.
...tbe Hudson River, once mid again; and again — three times. Well may Mr. <.la<Ktone say that we have "a natural base for the greatest continuous empire ever established by man;" and well may the English Premier add'. "And the distinction between coiitlnuouH empire and the empire... | |
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