Argentina: by W.A. Hirst ; with an introduction by Martin HumeC. Scribner's, 1910 - 308 Seiten |
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AIRES CENTRAL appear Argentina photo army B. A. G. S. R. photo B. A. P. R. photo Bahia Blanca Belgrano Bolivia Brazil Brazilian Buenos Aires Calchaquies capital cattle century Chile Chilian Chubut civilisation coast commercial continent Cordoba Corrientes district England English enterprise Entre Rios estancias Europe European export fact favourable feet force foreign Government Governor Gran Chaco history of Argentina hundred important Inca Indians industry inhabitants Jesuits King land less Lopez Mendoza ment miles Mitre Montevideo nations Oxo photo Pacific Pampa Pampean Paraguay Parana Patagonia Peru Plata political population port Portuguese President probably prosperity Province race railway remarks Republic River Plate Roca Rosario Rosas Santa Fé settlements ships South America Spain Spaniards Spanish colonies Straits of Magellan territory thousand tion town trade traveller Tucuman Urquiza Uruguay vast voyage wealth Whitelocke whole YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Seite 47 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Seite 162 - We do not guarantee any state against punishment if it misconducts itself, provided that punishment does not take the form of the acquisition of territory by any non-American power.
Seite 11 - During this time so little rain fell, that the vegetation, even to the thistles, failed; the brooks were dried up, and the whole country assumed the appearance of a dusty high road.
Seite 13 - Rhenumque bibunt. venient annis saecula seris, quibus Oceanus vincula rerum laxet et ingens pateat tellus Tethysque novos detegat orbes nee sit terris ultima Thule.
Seite 76 - Majesty must be aware that so large a portion of the world cannot, without fundamentally disturbing the intercourse of civilized society, long continue without some recognized and established relations; that the State which can neither by its councils nor by its arms effectually assert its own rights over its dependencies, so as to enforce obedience and thus make itself responsible for maintaining their relations with other Powers, must sooner or later be prepared to see those relations establish...
Seite 42 - For when they had made this beginning, they labored with such indefatigable pains, and with such masterly policy, that, by degrees, they mollified the minds of the most savage nations, fixed the most rambling, and subdued the most averse to government. They prevailed upon thousands of various dispersed tribes of people to embrace their religion, and to submit to their government ; and when they had submitted, the Jesuits left nothing undone that could conduce to their remaining in this subjection,...
Seite 100 - That the boundary line between the Argentine Republic and the United States of Brazil, in that part submitted to me for arbitration and decision, is constituted and shall be established by and upon the rivers Pepiri (also called Pepiri-guazu) and San Antonio, to wit, the rivers which Brazil has designated in the argument and documents submitted to me as constituting the boundary, and hereinbefore denominated the Westerly system.
Seite 120 - The condition of the working man in this country, what it is and has been, whether it is improving or retrograding, — is a question to which from statistics hitherto no solution can be got. Hitherto, after many tables and statements, one is still left mainly to what he can ascertain by his own eyes, looking at the concrete phenomenon for himself.