 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1911 - Liczba stron: 854
...the scene. Froude, describing conditions after a visit to the seat of French operations, declared: 'In all the world there is not, perhaps, now concentrated in any single spot so much swindling and villainy, so much foul disease, such a hideous dungheap of moral and physical abomination, as in the... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1913 - Liczba stron: 918
...the picture when he wrote, after visiting the Isthmus during his tour of the West Indies in 1885-6: "In all the world there is not, perhaps, now concentrated...abomination, as in the scene of this far-famed undertaking of nineteenth-century engineering. . . . The scene of operations is a damp, tropical jungle, intensely... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1888 - Liczba stron: 460
...imaginations as an Eldorado. If half the reports which reached me are correct, in all THE DARIEN CANAL 177 the world there is not perhaps now concentrated in...and villany, so much foul disease, such a hideous dungheap of moral and physical abomination, as in the scene of this far-famed undertaking of nineteenth-century... | |
 | Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons - 1913 - Liczba stron: 236
...of disease, mostly yellow fever. The historian Froude states after a visit to the Isthmus in 1888: "In all the world there is not perhaps, now concentrated in any single spot, so much swindling and villainy, so much foul disease, such a hideous dung-heap of moral and physical abomination, as in the... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1888 - Liczba stron: 362
...Darien has seized their imaginations as an Eldorado. If half the reports which reached me are correct, in all the world there is not perhaps now concentrated in any sing'e spot so much foul disease, such a hideous dungheap of moral and physical abomination, as in... | |
 | C. H. Forbes-Lindsay - 1906 - Liczba stron: 678
...Fronde, in his book on the West Indies, says : FROUDE'S CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FRENCH MISMANAGEMENT. " In all the world there is not, perhaps, now concentrated in any single spot so much swindling and villainy, so much foul disease, such a hideous dung heap of moral and physical abomination, as in the... | |
 | Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay - 1906 - Liczba stron: 410
...Froude, in his book on the West Indies, says: FBOUDE'S CHABACTEBIZATION ov THE FBENCH MISMANAGEMENT. " In all the world there is not, perhaps, now concentrated in any single spot so much swindling and villainy, so much foul disease, such a hideous dung heap of moral and physical abomination, as in the... | |
 | Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay - 1907 - Liczba stron: 426
...the world there is not, perhaps, now concentrated in any single spot so much swindling and villainy, so much foul disease, such a hideous dung heap of...physical abomination, as in the scene of this far-famed imdertaking of nineteenth century engineering. By the scheme, as it was first propounded,* six and... | |
 | C. H. Forbes-Lindsay - 1910 - Liczba stron: 586
...scene. Froude, describing conditions after a visit to the seat of the French operations, declared: " In all the world there is not, perhaps, now concentrated in any single spot so much swindling and villainy, so much foul disease, such a hideous dung heap of moral and physical abomination, as in the... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1911 - Liczba stron: 46
...the scene. Froude, describing conditions after a visit to the seat of French operations, declared: 'In all the world there is not, perhaps, now concentrated in any single spot so much swindling and villainy, so much foul disease, such a hideous dungheap of moral and physical abomination, as in the... | |
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In all the world there is not, perhaps, now concentrated in any single spot so much swindling... 
