 | Naval art and science - 1870 - 736 pages
...the human family. Who does not see that henceforth every year European commerce, European politics, European thoughts, and European activity, although...BEYOND, WILL BECOME THE CHIEF THEATRE OF EVENTS IN THE WOELD's OEEAT HEEEAFTER ? Time forbids me to follow out this train of thought, but the fact is apparent,... | |
 | William Speer - History - 1870 - 780 pages
...actually becoming more intimate, will nevertheless ultimately sink in importance ; while the Fnciflc ocean, Its shores, its islands, and the vast regions...become the chief theatre of events In the world's groat hereafter? WILLIAJI H. SEWARD. HARTFORD, CONN.: PUBLISHED BY SS SCRANTON AND COMPANY. SAX FRANCISCO,... | |
 | 1909 - 1106 pages
...defying opposition and indifference, persisted in the purchase of Alaska. His words are now its creed : " The Pacific Ocean, its shores, its Islands, and the vast regions beyond, will become the chief theater of events in the world's great hereafter." Already we have seen the beginning of that prophecy's... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Hawaii - 1886 - 50 pages
...Who does not see that henceforth, every year, European commerce, European politics, European thought, and European activity, although actually gaining greater...Pacific Ocean, its shores, its islands, and the vast region beyond will become the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter." This political... | |
 | 1898 - 896 pages
...Seward said of the Pacific: "Henceforth European commerce, politics, thought, activity, will relatively sink in importance, while the Pacific Ocean, its shores, its islands and the vast region beyond, will become the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter." This prophecy... | |
 | John Calvin Holbrook - Congregational churches - 1897 - 384 pages
...and European activity, although actually becoming more intimate, will, nevertheless, sink relatively in importance ; while the Pacific Ocean, its shores, its islands, and the regions beyond will become the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter. Taking this... | |
 | John Calvin Holbrook - Congregational churches - 1897 - 384 pages
...and European activity, although actually becoming more intimate, will, nevertheless, sink relatively in importance ; while the Pacific Ocean, its shores, its islands, and the regions beyond will become the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter. Taking this... | |
 | George Wallace Melville - Nicaragua Canal (Nicaragua) - 1898 - 42 pages
...States Senate, said, as to the commerce, politics, thought, and activities of Europe, that they would "ultimately sink in importance, while the Pacific...and the vast regions beyond, will become the chief theater of events in the world's great hereafter." Realization, more or less full, of this seems to... | |
 | Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - Presbyterian Church - 1898 - 610 pages
...Chief Theatre of Events — William II. Seward's prophecy, fifty years ago, that the Pacific OceaD, its shores, its islands, and the vast regions beyond, will become the chief theatre of events, has been fulfilled. In another part of this magazine the recent stirring events are traced by which... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1898 - 828 pages
...force, and European connections, although actually becoming more intimate, will nevertheless, relatively sink in importance; while the Pacific Ocean, its shores, its islands and the vast region beyond, will become the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter." We have not... | |
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SINK IN IMPORTANCE; WHILE THE PACIFIC OCEAN, ITS SHORES, ITS ISLANDS, AND THE VAST REGIONS BEYOND, WILL BECOME THE CHIEF THEATER OF EVENTS IN THE WORLD'S GREAT HEREAFTER? 
