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2. Volume 1, APPENDIX F on page xxi provides additional details,To search for words separated by an unknown number of other characters, use this Regular Expression to find the words "first" and "second" separated by between 1 and 100 charact...
3. Volume VII.—RECENT HISTORYIn the preface to the Sixth Volume of this work, published in the spring of 1901, it was remarked that the last half-dozen years of the Nineteenth Century, which that Volume cov...
4. Volume 3, page 1044Final proceedings for establishing the boundary line of Alaska were provided for in a Convention between the United States and Great Britain, signed April 21, 1906. The need and...
5. chapter 24AUSTRALIA: A. D. 1905-1906. Mr. Deakin’s precarious ministry. Power of the Labor Party without responsibility. Its principles and its "Fighting Platform." Important legislation...
6. Volume VI. of this work,—were compromised in 1900 by anIt was stipulated, however, in the agreement, that if no permanent settlement of the questions involved should have been reached by the end of the year 1902, either party to the...
7. Volume 3, page 1034 (Macmillan Company, New York, 1908).At the half yearly meeting of the Grand Trunk Company in London, October 21, 1909, the President, Sir C. Rivers Wilson, who had recently returned from Canada, spoke of the prese...
8. chapter 6 (Harper & Bros., New York, 1907).The further scope of the treaty was announced by President Roosevelt in his Message to Congress, December 7, 1903, as follows: "It provides not only for the ordinary rights and...
9. Volume 2, prepared and edited by James A. Finch,On the 7th of March, 1904, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution requesting the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to "investigate the causes of the low prices of beef...
10. Volume 2, page 874Entirely distinct from the criminal prosecutions of the Standard Oil Company by the United States Government, as reviewed above was a suit begun in November, 1906, in the United...
11. Volume VI. of this work. The King and the companies whichoperated in the region under his grants were reputed to be taking enormous profits from it. Of one of those concessionaire companies, sometimes referred to as the A. B. I. R. Co...
12. Chapter 382, Laws of 1889, to read as follows:—‘Every person now confined in a state prison, or in the Eastern New York Reformatory, under sentence for a definite term for a felony, the maximum penalty for which is imprisonm...
13. Volume VI. of this work (see Libraries). To that fundamentalinstitution Mr. Carnegie began soon to add auxiliaries, in technical schools, lecture hall, music hall, art galleries, and museum of science, until a great Institute, on which n...
14. part 3, chapter 2Public meetings have been held in Ireland during the past year (1909) to support the demand of the Gaelic League "that the Irish language, both oral and written, and Irish histo...
15. chapter 37.JAPAN: A. D. 1904-1905 (October-May). War with Russia: The expedition of the Baltic Fleet to relieve Port Arthur. The Dogger Bank incident. The Seven Months Voyage. Battle of Ts...
16. chapter vi.The first halt in Rozhdestvensky’s voyage was off Tangier, where he divided his fleet, sending one division, under Admiral Folkersahm, by the Suez Canal route, and leading the o...
17. part 1, chapter 149.By a decision from the Supreme Court of the United States, in April, 1905, an Act of the Legislature of New York, limiting the hours of labor to be exacted from workmen in baker...
18. Volume 11, page 653."Something has happened during the two weeks preceding the Conference at Algeciras [see EUROPE: A. D. 1904-1906], which may or may not be brought to the attention of the interna...
19. chapter 29NEW ZEALAND: A. D. 1906-1909. The Liberal Party and the Liberal Ministry. Their years of Great Power. Their Strength shaken in the latest Election. Its Method and Result. The ne...
20. Volume VI. of this work.In 1902 a Swedish-Norwegian Consular Commission was appointed to investigate the practicability of separate consuls for each of the united kingdoms, with joint diplomatic repres...
21. Book Cd. 4581, 1909, and partly from letters and despatches toThe Shah, Muzaffer-ed-Din, who came to the throne in 1896, on the assassination of his father, Nâsr-ed-Din (see, in Volume VI. of this work, PERSIA), was credited with a desire...
22. chapter 9 (Scribner’s Sons, New York).In a message to the Peruvian Congress, July 28, 1906, President Pardo communicated treaties of arbitration with Colombia, one general in its nature, the other special for the se...
23. part 1, pages 7-20."When our last report was submitted there was insurrection in the province of Batangas, where the insurgent forces were commanded by General Malvar, and in the adjacent province...
24. ill. The new regulation, therefore, extends the time ofIn the _International Journal of Ethics_ for May, 1906, Professor Royce reports of several visits to Jamaica,—where 14,000 or 15,000 white inhabitants are living with about 650,...
25. chapter 16 (New York, Dutton and Company)."The discontented crowds are unarmed, their only weapons are, so far, shouts, banners and martyrdom for Liberty, while the auto-bureaucratic regime meets these with the inflicti...
26. Chapter XIX, page 276Writing recently in the London _Times_, Professor Silvanus P. Thompson has described a discovery of effects which "appear to point to a true electric momentum." "To two men, Pro...
27. chapter 8 (John Lane Co., New York, 1909).A great Congress of 200 delegates from bodies of German workingmen opposed to Socialism, said to represent a total of 620,000, was held in October, 1903, at Frankfort-on-the Mai...
28. Volume v., chapter 3With better success Kitchener adopted and steadily perfected a block-house system, by which lines of barrier were drawn across the country in different directions, and protected...
29. c. 1,000 to 3,000 kilograms30. d. 3,000 to 10,000 kilograms31. d. 250 to 500 kilograms"It needs but a glance at this list," said Consul-General Mason, "to show how important will be the concessions granted to one or more of the seven treaty nations, and how formi...
32. Volume 1, pages 210 and 224-225.Dr. Scott cites from M. La Fontaine a table showing the participation of each State in arbitration. Germany has no representation in the table, either as a whole or by any of it...
33. Chapter III of the convention for the pacific settlement ofinternational disputes adopted at The Hague, and that it shall determine, in so far as there shall be no agreement between the parties, the justice, and the amount of the debt,...
34. Volume VI., 23-25.35. Volume VI., 25.36. Volume VI., 14-15.37. Volume VI., 12."We owe to the Semitic race neither political life, art, poetry, philosophy, nor Science. What, then, do we owe to them? We owe to them Religion. The whole world, if we except I...
38. Volume VI., 18-20."The Babylonians were … the first of the Semites to enter the arena of history, and they did so by virtue of the civilization to which they attained in and through their settlem...
39. Volume VI., 13.40. Volume VI., 12."When civilization makes up its mind to reenter upon that country, nothing more will be needed for the reawakening in it of life and reproductive energy, than the restoration of...
41. Volume VI., 20, 21.42. Volume VI., 25."It may seem a paradox, but we suspect that in their imperial ascendency is seen one of the earliest and not least important steps in that gradual triumph of intellect over forc...
43. Volume VI., 25."The primitive Chaldeans were preeminently a literary people, and it is by their literary relics, by the scattered contents of their libraries, that we can know and judge them....
44. Volume VI., 14.45. Volume VI., 13, 14.46. Volume VI., 15-16.47. Volume VI., 14.48. Volume VI., 20-21.49. Volume VI., 20.50. Volume VI., 18-19.51. Volume VI., 20-21.52. Volume VI., 28.53. Volume VI., 198.54. Volume VI., 201-203."Nations that are fitted to play a part in universal history must die first that the world may live through them' A people must choose between the prolonged life, the tranquil a...
55. Volume VI., 57-58."Our interest in Ancient history, it may be said, lies not in large masses. It matters little how early the Arcadians acquired a political unity or what Nabis did to Mycenae; th...
56. Volume VI., 25."None of these men were enervated by wealth or hesitated to resign the pleasures of life. … And when the moment came they were minded to resist and suffer, rather than to fly an...
57. Volume VI., 203-204.58. Volume VI., 207-208.59. Volume VI., 209-210."This country, this nation, loves brave men. Mr. Gladstone was the bravest of the brave. There was no cause so hopeless that he was afraid to undertake it; there was no amount o...
60. Volume VI., 213-216."The simple dignity, befitting a Monarch of this realm, in that she could never fail, because it arose from her inherent sense of the fitness of things. It was no trapping put o...
61. Volume VI., 225.62. Volume VI., 225-233.63. Volume VII., 275.64. Volume VII., 472-474.65. Volume VII., 249, 252-253.66. Volume VII., 254.67. Volume VII., 281.68. Volume VII., 376-378."It is a fact, the great self-assertion of individuality among us makes constitutional government very hard in Prussia. … We are perhaps too ‘cultured’ to tolerate a constitutio...
69. Volume VII., 639-640.70. Volume VI., 240-241."You have, my children, sworn allegiance to me. That means that you have given yourselves to me body and soul. You have only one enemy, and that is my enemy. With the present so...
71. Volume VII., 635.72. Volume VI., 80.73. Volume VII., 396, 509-11.74. Volume VI., 247.75. Volume VII., 290-291.76. Volume VI., 248-249.77. Volume VII., 292.78. Volume VII., 293-294.79. Volume VII., 295-297.80. Volume VII., 252-255.81. Volume VII., 292-293.82. Volume VII., 294-5.83. Volume VII., 705."It is but nine months since this Iliad of the blacks, as an English reviewer calls 'Uncle Tom,' made its appearance among books, and already its sale has exceeded a million of...
84. Volume VI., 63-64.85. Volume VI., 554-557.86. Volume VI., 573-574.87. Volume VI., 574-576.88. Volume VI., 576.89. Volume VI., 581.90. Volume VI., 582.91. Volume VI., 579-580.92. Volume VI., 173-174.93. Volume VI., 590-591.[The naval and military operations, engagements and other events, of the war, are narrated very fully and consecutively in about forty pages (591-638) of Volume VI., mostly in q...
94. Volume VII., 373-375.95. Volume VI., 379-380.96. Volume VI., 392-393.97. Volume VI., 402-403.98. Volume VI., 639-640.99. Volume VI., 680-682.100. Volume VI., 668-674, 683.101. Volume VI., 674-678.102. Volume VII., 59-61.103. Volume VII., 685.104. Volume VII., 25.105. Volume VII., 467-471.106. Volume V., p. 3699 (3582). In six and one half pages of VolumeVI., under the heading "Trusts" (pages 529-536), the rise of the great industrial and commercial combinations, which began at about the beginning of the present century to cause...
107. Volume VII., 152.108. Volume VII., 104-108.109. Volume VII., 174-177.110. Volume VII., 667-668.111. Volume VII., 9.112. Volume VII., 263.113. Volume VII., 669.114. Volume VII., 669-671.115. Volume VII., 584-585.116. Volume VII., 684-688.117. Volume VII., 77-79.118. Volume VII., 520-522.119. Volume VII., 254.120. Volume VII., 178-180.121. Volume VII., 538-541.122. Volume VII., 264.123. Volume VII., 443-444.124. Volume VII., 716-722.125. Volume VII., 707-708.126. Volume VII., 674-678.127. Volume VII., 266.128. Volume VII., 92-93.129. Volume VII., 362.130. Volume VII., 679-680.131. Volume VII., 166-167.132. Volume VII., 646-647.133. Volume VII., 94-95.134. Volume VII., 51.135. Volume VII., 620-623.136. Volume VII., 51-53, 53-57.137. Volume VII., 198-199.138. Volume VII., 342-343, 360-361.139. Volume VII., 330-331.140. Volume VII., 232.141. Volume VII., 249.142. Volume VII., 352-353.143. Volume VII., 233-235.144. Volume VII., 626-627.145. Volume VII., 199-200.146. Volume VII., 235.147. Volume VII., 255-257.148. Volume VII., 694.149. Volume VII., 488-491.150. Volume VII., 318-319.151. Volume VII., 322-324.152. Volume VII., 224-227.153. Volume VII., 508-509.154. Volume VII., 613.155. Volume VII., 700-703.156. Volume VII., 244-5, 246."As far as England was concerned the taking of Louisburg was the great event of the war of the Austrian succession. England had no other success in that war to compare with it....
157. Volume VII., 67.158. Volume VII., 446-448.159. Volume VII., 68.160. Volume VII., 64.161. Volume VII., 9-10.162. Volume VII., 69-70.163. Volume VI., 208-209; Volume VII., 51-57.164. Volume VII., 341.165. Volume VI., 278-279.166. Volume VI., 76-78.167. Volume VI., 279.168. Volume VI., 289.169. Volume VII., 343.170. Volume VII., 91-92.171. Volume VII., 342-343, 360-361.172. Volume VII., 355-356.173. Volume VII., 358-360.174. Volume VII., 363, 362.175. Volume VII., 363-364.176. Volume VII., 95, 97-98.177. Volume VII., 362.178. Volume VII., 538-540.179. Volume VI., 76-78.180. Volume VI., 301-302.181. Volume VI., 80.182. Volume VI., 83-86.183. Volume VI., 86-88.184. Volume VI., 88-89.185. Volume VI., 104.186. Volume VI., 94-95.187. Volume VI., 101.188. Volume VI., 107-108.189. Volume VI., 112-113.190. Volume VI., 115.191. Volume VI., 128-129.192. Volume VI., 130-132.193. Volume VI., 134-136.194. Volume VI., 143-144.195. Volume VII., 341-342.196. Volume VII., 92-93.197. Volume VII., 94.198. Volume VII., 100-102.199. Volume VII., 102-103.200. Volume VII., 99-100.201. Volume VII., 99.202. Volume VII., 464.203. Volume VII., 538.204. Volume VI., 1.205. Volume VI., 423.206. Volume VI., 423-424.207. Volume VI., 86-88, 101.208. Volume VI., 224.209. Volume VII., 563.210. Volume VII., 100.211. Volume VI., 425.212. Volume VI., 429.213. Volume VII., 564-565.214. Volume VII., 571-572.215. Volume VII., 575.216. Volume VII., 576-577.217. Volume VII., 573.218. Volume VII., 270-273.219. Volume VII., 255-7.220. Volume VII., 260-261.221. Volume VII., 580-581."It [Lepanto] was indeed a sanguinary battle, surpassing in this particular any sea-fight of modern times. The loss fell much the most heavily on the Turks. There is the usual d...
222. Volume VII., 653.223. Volume VII., 167-169.224. Volume VI., 548.225. Volume VII., 652, 653-655, 657.226. Volume VII., 656-662, 664.227. Volume VII., 664.228. Volume VII., 258-261."The Spanish adventurers who thronged to the New World after its discovery found the same race of Red Indians in the West India Islands, in Central and South America, in Florida...
229. Volume VI., 520.230. Volume VI., 366.231. Volume VI., 26.232. Volume VII., 74-80.233. Volume VII., 419.234. Volume VII., 420.235. Volume VII., 684-688.236. Volume VI., 173-174.237. Volume VI., 583-612, 620-638.238. Volume VI., 182-185.239. Volume VI., 190.240. Volume VII., 174-177.241. Volume VII., 178-180.242. Volume VII., 302-304.243. Volume VI., 58.244. Volume VII., 20-25."From Laybach, the allied sovereigns issued a circular to their representatives at the various foreign courts, in which portentous document they declared that 'useful and necess...
245. Volume VII., 338.246. Volume VII., 187-189.On the following important subjects of general history, readers may be directed sufficiently to all that this work contains by a simple mention of captions and page-numbers in o...
247. Volume VII.248. Volume VII. (under several captions, as follows:)249. Volume V., 3207-3237250. Volume VII. (under the caption "Combinations"), 112-135.A AARON ABANDONED ABANDONMENT ABBASSIDES ABBOTT ABBÉ ABD ABDICATION ABDUL ABDULLA ABDURAHMAN ABEBA ABERDEEN ABIR ABJURATION ABOLITION ABOLITIONISTS ABOMINATIONS ABORIGINES ABOUT...