 | Ferdinand de Lesseps - Suez Canal (Egypt) - 1855 - 238 pages
...over barbarism. Is it, finally, a sordid jealousy of territorial extension ? Why, they acknowledge, at the present time, that the globe is vast enough...that could impair our cordial relations with England. to the Viceroy a letter from the Grand Vizier, in which he aptly characterized the opening of If, however,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 pages
...as has too often been the case in projects of this description, work together, as they ought to do, the conquests of the one profit by the activity of the other. M. Lesseps has, in a letter addressed to Lord Stratford de Bedcliffe, grappled with the subject of... | |
 | 1856 - 522 pages
...as has too often been the case in projects of this description, work together, as they ought to do, the conquests of the one profit by the activity of the other. M. Lesseps has, in a letter addressed to Lord Stratford de Bedcliffe, grappled with the subject of... | |
 | Sir William Patrick Andrew - Europe - 1857 - 310 pages
...as has too often been the case in projects of this description, work together, as they ought to do, the conquests of the one profit by the activity of the other. M. Lesseps has, in a letter addressed to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, grappled with the subject of... | |
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... animates their respective populations, countries to make available, human beings to withdraw from a state of barbarism, and so long as the civilised nations of the world, instead of thwarting one another, as has too often been the case in projects... 