| William MacCreary Burwell - 1851 - 46 sider
...States, in their commercial race with England, have for the last fifty years been graduallygaining. They have been coming up all the time,, and at last the...our own Pacific coast, with the advantage of some ten days' sail or more, the scales will be turned, and we shall have the advantage of some twenty or... | |
| John Jay Williams - 1852 - 372 sider
...States, in their commercial race with England, have for the last fifty years been gradually gaining. They have been coming up all the time, and at last the...our own Pacific coast, with the advantage of some ten days' sail or more, the scales will be turned, and we shall have the advantage of some twenty or... | |
| MAJOR J. G BARNARD - 1852 - 306 sider
...States, in their commercial race with England, have for the last fifty years been gradually gaining. They have been coming up all the time, and at last the...throat-latch ahead. Cut through this Isthmus, ' Uncle Sain? will then turn the corner, and England will be distanced. Instead, then, of meeting us in India,... | |
| John Jay Williams - 1852 - 688 sider
...States, in their commercial race with England, have for the last fifty years been gradually gaining. They have been coming up all the time, and at last the contest has become BO close that England is hardly a throat-latch ahead. Cat through this Isthmus, ' Uncle Sam' will then... | |
| John Jay Williams - 1852 - 378 sider
...been gradually gaining. They have been coming up all the time, and at last the contest has become go close that England is hardly a throat-latch ahead. Cut through this Isthmus, ' Uncle Sam1 will then turn the comer, and England will be distanced. Instead, then, of meeting 'us in India,... | |
| John Jay Williams - 1852 - 436 sider
...States, in their commercial race with England, have for the last fifty years been gradually gaining. They have been coming up all the time, and at last the contest haa become so close that England is hardly a throat-latch ahead. Cut through this Isthmus, ' Uncle... | |
| E. G. SQUIER - 1853 - 462 sider
...Britain is hardly a throat-latch ahead. Cut through the Isthmus, and the triumph will be complete. Instead, then, of meeting us in India, China, and...our own Pacific coast, with the advantage of some ten day's sail or more, the scales will be turned, and we shall have the advantage of some twenty or... | |
| 1883 - 514 sider
...States in their commercial race with England have for the last fifty years been gradually gaining. They have been coming up all the time, and at last the...throat-latch ahead. Cut through this Isthmus, " Uncle Saui " will then turn the corner, and England will be distanced. Instead, thou, of meeting us in India,... | |
| Louis Pelzer - 1909 - 404 sider
...thence up to San Francisco." — From Sparks 's The Expansion of the American People, p. 367. 291 ' ' Instead, then, of meeting us in India, China, and even on our own Pacific coast, as the English now do, with the advantage of some ten days' sail, or more, the scales will be turned,... | |
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