North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Band 223University of Northern Iowa, 1926 |
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... feddans ( approximately 10,000 acres ) . When the Assuan Dam was heightened a new agreement raised this figure to 20,000 . " The jealousy with which Lord Cromer safeguarded the prin- ciple of the Nile water monopoly of Egypt is readily ...
... feddans ( approximately 10,000 acres ) . When the Assuan Dam was heightened a new agreement raised this figure to 20,000 . " The jealousy with which Lord Cromer safeguarded the prin- ciple of the Nile water monopoly of Egypt is readily ...
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... feddans to an unlimited figure as the need may arise . " " The first part of this order deals with a matter which does not concern me . The second part of it is the pivot around which my story revolves . As soon as the Egyptian public ...
... feddans to an unlimited figure as the need may arise . " " The first part of this order deals with a matter which does not concern me . The second part of it is the pivot around which my story revolves . As soon as the Egyptian public ...
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... feddans , of which 3,000,000 are cultivated . In the reaches from Cairo to the Sudan frontier there are about 2,500,000 acres or feddans of arable soil , of which 2,200,000 are now cultivated . Thus the combined area of all of the Nile ...
... feddans , of which 3,000,000 are cultivated . In the reaches from Cairo to the Sudan frontier there are about 2,500,000 acres or feddans of arable soil , of which 2,200,000 are now cultivated . Thus the combined area of all of the Nile ...
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... feddans or acres . Now , Egypt has a population of 14,000,000 souls . They and their cattle must be fed . The fellah , therefore , raises sugar , wheat , corn , rice , onions , barley and clover . These crops absorb approximately 70 per ...
... feddans or acres . Now , Egypt has a population of 14,000,000 souls . They and their cattle must be fed . The fellah , therefore , raises sugar , wheat , corn , rice , onions , barley and clover . These crops absorb approximately 70 per ...
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... feddans . To get this result I subtract from the 3,000,000 acres Gezira tract now ready for the plow and lying opposite the Dam " earmarked for the Sudan " the 1,787,843 feddans ( or acres ) which Egypt had under cotton in 1924. This ...
... feddans . To get this result I subtract from the 3,000,000 acres Gezira tract now ready for the plow and lying opposite the Dam " earmarked for the Sudan " the 1,787,843 feddans ( or acres ) which Egypt had under cotton in 1924. This ...
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Seite 279 - The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
Seite 309 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Seite 235 - The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success. One dashingly calls them "glittering generalities.
Seite 526 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Seite 237 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Seite 281 - As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes...
Seite 309 - ... truth is great and will prevail, if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them...
Seite 235 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Seite 564 - ... their actings bring real good to their country, yet men primarily considered that their own and their country's interest was united and did not act from a principle of benevolence. "That fewer still in public affairs act with a view to the good of mankind.
Seite 254 - The High Contracting Parties agree to submit to arbitration all claims for pecuniary loss or damage which may be presented by their respective citizens and which cannot be amicably adjusted through diplomatic channels, when said claims are of sufficient importance to warrant the expense of arbitration.