Trade and letters
Subtitle: their journeyings round the world.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781425513504
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: WHILE the Anglican and Roman crosses are leagued with the Crescent against the Greek cross-Britain and Gaul now united to uphold the Turk whom they together sought to destroy when in the twelfth century their banners were last borne to the battle-field in concert; while Europe and Western Asia are shaking under the tramp of bannered hosts, and the bright blue waters of the Black and Baltic Seas are stirred with the keel of ponderous battle-ships, and are echoing with the murderous thunderings of Sinope and Odessa; here at the Golden Gate-the great western gate of this vast continent, so far westward that it looks boldly on the face of the jeweled East-very different, more useful, and more glorious results are being achieved.