East by West: A Journey in the Recess, Volume 2Bentley, 1885 - 361 pages |
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Page 4
... Government , and above all their new policy , was upon trial . They might break down any day , and who could say that their successors would , even if they could , meet the promise to pay which the notes bore ? Gradually confidence in ...
... Government , and above all their new policy , was upon trial . They might break down any day , and who could say that their successors would , even if they could , meet the promise to pay which the notes bore ? Gradually confidence in ...
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... United States , very narrow in its scope , but illimitable in its consequences . It had been signed at the instance or on the insistence of Commodore Perry , and bound the Japanese Government to A PERSONAL EPISODE IN HISTORY . 19.
... United States , very narrow in its scope , but illimitable in its consequences . It had been signed at the instance or on the insistence of Commodore Perry , and bound the Japanese Government to A PERSONAL EPISODE IN HISTORY . 19.
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... Government to afford succour and protection to seamen and vessels of the United States . If the Japanese Government failed therein , or could , in any plausible manner , be held to have failed , Commodore Perry or some one like him , at ...
... Government to afford succour and protection to seamen and vessels of the United States . If the Japanese Government failed therein , or could , in any plausible manner , be held to have failed , Commodore Perry or some one like him , at ...
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... government . In the growth of popular liberty , and , concomitantly , of national pro- sperity , which has since invigorated Japan , the hapless sailor apprentices have borne the principal share . The lessons they learned in Gower ...
... government . In the growth of popular liberty , and , concomitantly , of national pro- sperity , which has since invigorated Japan , the hapless sailor apprentices have borne the principal share . The lessons they learned in Gower ...
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... Government of the country the bare means of subsistence , compelling them to make up deficiencies by increased charges upon their own people . Those treaties were exacted from an ignorant and irresolute Tycoon standing between the devil ...
... Government of the country the bare means of subsistence , compelling them to make up deficiencies by increased charges upon their own people . Those treaties were exacted from an ignorant and irresolute Tycoon standing between the devil ...
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