| Charles MacFarlane - 1852 - 418 Seiten
...brought up. It appears that, for domestic uses, the natives convert this coal, which is very bituminoiis, into coke. The value of these beds can scarcely be...Providence, deposited by the Creator of all things in the depth of the Japanese islands for the benefit of the human family."* Without free access to this coal,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1852 - 710 Seiten
...of his artisans, or the results of the toil of his husbandmen, but a gift of Providence, Heposited, by the Creator of all things, in the depths of the...Japanese -islands for the benefit of the human family. By the President's direction, I now transmit to you a letter to the Emperor of Japan, (v. ith an open... | |
| 1853 - 728 Seiten
...thousand miles, and calls to mind the beds of coal which are (in the language of Mr. Webster) "a gilt of Providence, deposited by the Creator of all things...Japanese Islands for the benefit of the human family," and yet knows that fuel, and food, and repose, and refreshment are all denied him; the ports shut against... | |
| 1853 - 724 Seiten
...five thousand miles, and calls to mind the beds of coal which are (in the language of Mr. Webster) "a gift of Providence, deposited by the Creator of all things in the depths of the Japancsa Islands for the benefit of the human family," and yet knows that fuel, and food, and repose,... | |
| 1858 - 986 Seiten
...exists in considerable quantities, and was declared by the President of the American republic to be " a gift of Providence, deposited by the Creator of...Japanese islands, for the benefit of the human family." These islands, thus highly favoured in point of situation, climate, and productions, were first sighted... | |
| 1860 - 492 Seiten
...exists in considerable quantities, and was declared by the President of the American republic to be " a gift of Providence, deposited by the Creator of...Japanese islands, for the benefit of the human family." These islands, thus highly favoured in point of situation, climate, and productions, were first sighted... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1874 - 706 Seiten
...steamers, — not the manufactures of his artisans or the results of the toil of his husbandmen, — but a gift of Providence, deposited by the Creator of...Japanese Islands for the benefit of the human family. By the President's direction, I now transmit to you a letter to the Emperor of Japan (with an open... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1903 - 684 Seiten
...results of the toil of his husbandmen, but a gift of Providence, deposited, by 428 Diplomatic Papers the Creator of all things, in the depths of the Japanese islands for the benefit of the human family. By the President's direction, I now transmit to you a letter to the Emperor of Japan, (with an open... | |
| Tyler Dennett - 1922 - 748 Seiten
...our steamers not the manufactures of his artisans, or the results of the toil of his husbandmen, but a gift of Providence deposited by the Creator of all...Japanese islands for the benefit of the human family." Beyond the securing of coal supplies, Aulick was authorized to secure a treaty, if possible, similar... | |
| Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 Seiten
...Webster asked for the right to buy coal of the Japanese, informing them that this precious substance was "a gift of Providence deposited by the Creator of...depths of the Japanese islands for the benefit of the whole human family" — a lofty sentiment that had peculiar reverberations in subsequent years. The... | |
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