Date: September 20, 1858
"The news of the new treaty wrung from China by the allied Plenipotentiaries has, it would appear, conjured up the same wild vistas of an immense extension of trade which danced before the eyes of the commercial mind in 1845, after the conclusion of the first Chinese war."
preview | full record— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Date: February 14, 1860
"But, in England, it is some subaltern spokesman, some worn-out place-hunter, some anonymous nonentity of a so-called Cabinet, that, relying on the donkey power of the Parliamentary mind and the bewildering evaporations of an anonymous press, without making any noise, without incurring any danger...
preview | full record— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Date: 6:28 PM - 21 Apr 2014
"a bedclothes is an imagination: peachier and ranker."
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