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... adopting that course , very much by reason of the unfriendly feeling to- wards the Canal which was at first exhibited by a few leading Englishmen , and by English diplomacy , at least as regards some subjects connected with it ...
... adopting that course , very much by reason of the unfriendly feeling to- wards the Canal which was at first exhibited by a few leading Englishmen , and by English diplomacy , at least as regards some subjects connected with it ...
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... adopted during late years , must in some instances be reviewed and modified . Still , looking at the progress of events as a whole , we may hope that no irre- parable mischief has been done , if , while it is yet time , the necessary ...
... adopted during late years , must in some instances be reviewed and modified . Still , looking at the progress of events as a whole , we may hope that no irre- parable mischief has been done , if , while it is yet time , the necessary ...
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... adoption of judicious principles for regulating our general policy in the East , i . e . in the regions intervening between the Mediter- ranean and India , would afford a safe ground on which to stand , in protecting and developing our ...
... adoption of judicious principles for regulating our general policy in the East , i . e . in the regions intervening between the Mediter- ranean and India , would afford a safe ground on which to stand , in protecting and developing our ...
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... adopted none of the great prin- ciples by which a colony is rendered populous and prosperous ; but , on the other hand , it had recourse to all kinds of trifling artificial pro- cesses , and petty tyrannical regulations , in order to ...
... adopted none of the great prin- ciples by which a colony is rendered populous and prosperous ; but , on the other hand , it had recourse to all kinds of trifling artificial pro- cesses , and petty tyrannical regulations , in order to ...
Page 48
... adopted to prevent the soft mud lying at the bottom of that lake from filling up the channel of the Canal . But simple as it is to imitate the operations M. DE LESSEPS . 49 of Nature as far as 48 THE SUEZ CANAL , ETC.
... adopted to prevent the soft mud lying at the bottom of that lake from filling up the channel of the Canal . But simple as it is to imitate the operations M. DE LESSEPS . 49 of Nature as far as 48 THE SUEZ CANAL , ETC.
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