... coal and iron of America that it would no longer be worth while to work them, and that therefore we ought to insure against the loss of our artificial position as the great centre of trade, by making ourselves secure and strong and respected. We thought... Military Pamphlets: History - Página 711870Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1871 - 608 páginas
...pauperism that is growing up by the side of and in deadly contrast to our riches ; with power passing from the class which had been used to rule and to...of the lower classes, uneducated, untrained to the use of political rights, and swayed by demagogues, we talk as if Providence had ordained that our Government... | |
| George Tomkyns Chesney - 1871 - 88 páginas
...treasures of the earth, to go and live in other places, and take their profits with them. Nor would men believe that there could ever be an end to our...honour unsullied through former struggles, into the 63 hands of the lower classes, uneducated, untrained to the use of political rights, and swayed by... | |
| George Tomkyns Chesney - 1871 - 84 páginas
...making ourselves secure, and strong, and respected. We thought we were living in a commercial millenium, which must last for a thousand years, at least. After...political dangers, and which had brought the nation with honor unsullied through former struggles, into the hands of the lower classes, uneducated, untrained... | |
| sir George Tomkyns Chesney - 1871 - 78 páginas
...secure and strong and respected. We thought we were living in a commercial millennium, which must last O for a thousand years at least. After all, the bitterest...political dangers, and which had brought the nation with honor unsullied through former struggles, into the hands of the lower classes, uneducated, untrained... | |
| 1871 - 612 páginas
...pauperism that is growing up by the side of and in deadly contrast to our riches ; with power passing from the class which had been used to rule and to...of the lower classes, uneducated, untrained to the use of political rights, and swayed by demagogues, we talk as if Providence had ordained that our Government... | |
| 1905 - 216 páginas
...treasures of the earth, to go and live in other places, and take their profits with them. Nor would men believe that there could ever be an end to our...of the lower classes, uneducated, untrained to the use of political rights, and swayed by demagogues ; and the few who were vise in their generation were... | |
| George Tomkyns Chesney - 1914 - 112 páginas
...treasures of the earth, to go and live in other places, and take their profits with them. Nor would men believe that there could ever be an end to our...of the lower classes, uneducated, untrained to the use of political rights, and swayed by demagogues ; and the few who were wise in their generation were... | |
| Brian M. Stableford - 2006 - 426 páginas
...There, across the narrow Straits, was the writing on the wall, but we would not choose to read it.... Power was then passing away from the class which had...been used to rule, and to face political dangers... into the hands of the lower classes, uneducated, untrained to the use of political rights, and swayed... | |
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