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Page 263 - I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest.
Page 138 - There is not room in Peru for both Bolivar and myself. He will stop at nothing to come to Peru. It may not be in my power to avoid a conflict if I am here. Let him come so that America may triumph. It shall not be San Martin who will give a day of delight to the enemy.
Page 137 - I am tired of hearing them call me a tyrant, that I wish to make myself King, Emperor, the Devil. My health is broken, the climate is killing me. My youth was sacrificed to the service of Spain, my manhood to my own country. I feel I have now the right to dispose of my old age.
Page 184 - Nuevitas and took possession of the country In the name of the King of Spain.
Page 137 - Receive, General, this remembrance from the first of your admirers, with the expression of my sincere desire that you may achieve the glory of concluding the war for Independence of South America." Bolivar recognized the moral superiority of his rival, felt abashed in the presence of such abnegation, yet through the years could not speak, for the truth would have thrown a slur upon his own fame.
Page 261 - No definite results were achieved, however, except the establishment of an International Bureau of American Republics in Washington, for the collection and publication of information relating to the commerce, products, laws and customs of the countries represented.
Page 60 - He himself, sitting on a throne or couch, adorned with plumes of various colours, and almost covered with plates of gold and silver enriched with precious stones, was carried on the shoulders of his principal attendants. Behind him came some chief officers of his court, carried in the same manner. Several bands of singers and dancers accompanied this cavalcade, and the whole plain was covered with troops, amounting to more than thirty thousand men.
Page 88 - February 10, 1763, terminated a great international quarrel known in Europe as the Seven Years' War, and in America as the French and Indian War.
Page 51 - XXIII., note 8. rising one above the other as far as the eye could reach. In one of the apartments was a king, sitting upon a throne, who received Shao in a very friendly manner; and, after regaling him with an excellent banquet, said, " I have to thank you for the food and drink you gave my servants that day we passed your house.
Page 126 - The day of America has come. No human power can stay the course of Nature guided by Providence. Before the sun has again run his annual course altars to Liberty will arise throughout your land.