 | David Urquhart - 1839 - 668 páginas
...strong positions to get possession of, no local power to impede them, extensive coasts to land upon, and the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic...affording protection, would only invite attack. Egypt present* the exact counterpart. In case of war your Indian traffic would no longer by having to doable... | |
 | David Urquhart - 1843 - 536 páginas
...strong positions to get possession of, no local power to impede them, extensive coasts to land upon, and the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic...war your Indian traffic would no longer by having to doable the THE CANAL OF SUEZ. 435 Cape, be exposed either to Prance, or the United States. As regards... | |
 | George Lewis (of Ormiston.) - 1845 - 448 páginas
...souls, employing 100 large steamers in its trade, by which it has a river navigation stretching towards the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on the other. The sight of any city, after steaming five days through endless forests, would have been agreeable;... | |
 | Clement Moore Butler, United States. Congress. Senate - 1850 - 304 páginas
...or later absorb the hardier sons of the North, is to take too contracted a view of the subject. With the Pacific on the one side and the Atlantic on the other — we seem to hold the nations in our hands. With one arm on Europe and the other on Asia, it is for... | |
 | David Urquhart - 1853 - 530 páginas
...strong positions to get possession of, no local power to impede them, extensive coasts to land upon, and the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic...extremities, instead. of affording protection, would onhi invite attack. Egypt presents the exact counterpart. In case of war your Indian traffic would... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1853 - 648 páginas
...terminate? Not on some great plain which lias been formed for their reception, but in two great oceans, the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on the other. The figure explains the true interests of the country, in the inseparable union and necessary dependence... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1853 - 644 páginas
...terminate? Not on some great plain which has been formed for their reception, but in two great oceans, the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on the other. The figure explains the true interests of the country, in the inseparable union and necessary dependence... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1853 - 804 páginas
...Mississippi and its mighty tributaries, covering 146,000 square miles from the Andes to the distant shores of the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on the other. Nor is Africa without a share of the combustible treasure, as the peninsula of Aden, and the adjacent... | |
 | Joseph Gales - 1853 - 646 páginas
...terminate? Not on some great plain which has been formed for their reception, but in two great oceans, the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on the other. The figure explains the true interests of the country, in the inseparable union and necessary dependence... | |
 | John Peyre Thomas - 1857 - 432 páginas
...or later absorb the hardier sons of the North, is to take too contracted a view of the subject. With the Pacific on the one side and the Atlantic on the other — we seem to hold the nations in our hands. With one arm on Europe and the other on Asia, it is for... | |
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Alleganies, and its great sides swelling to the East and to the West, where do you find its immense limbs terminate? Not on some great plain which has been formed for their reception, but in two great oceans, the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic... 
