Salvador of the Twentieth Century

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Longmans, Green & Company, 1911 - 328 pages
 

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Page 53 - ... (2 per cent.) as the Government was under obligation to do. 2. The Government was to pay the Company for 18 years from ist January, 1899, a fixed annual subsidy of ,£24,000 in lieu of the previous guarantee, and to hand over all the Railways free of charge. The subsidy was to be secured...
Page 253 - Finally, at ten minutes to eleven, without premonition of any kind, the earth began to heave and tremble with such fearful force that in ten seconds the entire city was prostrated. The crashing of houses and churches stunned the ears of the terrified inhabitants, while a cloud of dust from the falling ruins enveloped them in a pall of impenetrable darkness. Not a drop of water could be got to relieve the half-choked and suffocating, for the wells and fountains were filled up or made dry.
Page 75 - A conscience but a canker, A correspondence fix'd wi' Heav'n Is sure a noble anchor ! Adieu, dear amiable Youth! Your heart can ne'er be wanting! May prudence, fortitude, and truth, Erect your brow undaunting! In ploughman phrase, 'God send you speed,' Still daily to grow wiser; And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th
Page xii - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Page 317 - In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due. As men of breeding, sometimes men of wit, T...
Page 119 - American commercial reciprocity ; the fifth, for the adoption of the metric system of weights and measures ; and the sixth defines the functions of each Government toward the Central American bureau in Guatemala.
Page 252 - The night of the 16th of April, 1854, will ever be one of sad and bitter memory for the people of Salvador. On that unfortunate night our happy and beautiful capital was made a heap of ruins. Movements of the earth were felt on...
Page 253 - The devastation was effected, as we have said, in the first ten seconds ; for, although the succeeding shocks were tremendous, and accompanied by fearful rumblings beneath our feet, they had comparatively trifling results, for the reason that the first had left but little for their ravages. " Solemn and terrible was the picture presented on the dark, funereal night, of a whole people clustering in...
Page 253 - ... and city shared the common destruction. "' The devastation was effected, as we have said, in the first ten seconds ; for although the succeeding shocks were tremendous, and accompanied by fearful rumblings beneath our feet, they had comparatively trifling results for the reason that the first had left but little for their ravages. Solemn and terrible was the picture presented on the dark funereal night of a whole people clustering in the plazas and on their knees crying with loud voices to Heaven...
Page 313 - Bay of Fonseca, on the south by the Pacific Ocean, and on the west by Guatemala.

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