 | 1894 - 854 sider
...iu which the elements of sea power are discussed. The author bids us regard the sea as a wide plain, over which men may pass in all directions, but on...well-worn paths show that controlling reasons have led people to choose certain lines of travel rather than others. We are to remember, too, that travel and... | |
 | 1894 - 436 sider
...history as Priestley was the discoverer of oxygen. "The author bids us regard the sea as a wide plain, over which men may pass in all directions, but on...well-worn paths show that controlling reasons have led people to choose certain lines of travel rather than others. We are to remember, too, that travel and... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 544 sider
...Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire and a Life of Nelson. THE SEA AS A GREAT COMMON. The first and most obvious light in which the sea presents...on which some well-worn paths show that controlling (181) i8a ALFRED THAYER MAHAN reasons have led them to choose certain lines of travel rather than others.... | |
 | 1955 - 542 sider
...many ways parallels the era of sea power. Captain Mahan pointed out almost a century ago that "the first and most obvious light in which the sea presents...social point of view, is that of a great highway." Today the airways, which know no bounds, provide the greatest international highway on which men may... | |
 | Michael Howard, George J. Andreopoulos, Mark R. Shulman, Michael Eliot Howard - 1994 - 316 sider
...nineteenth century Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan expressed a complementary thought when he declared: "The first and most obvious light in which the sea presents...great highway; or better, perhaps, of a wide common in which men pass in all directions."2 Both of these phrases echo the first principle of modern international... | |
 | Colin S. Gray, Geoffrey R. Sloan - 1999 - 302 sider
...CONSIDERATIONS FOR EARTH AND LUNAR SPACE American naval officer Alfred Thayer Mahan envisioned the sea as a 'wide common, over which men may pass in all directions, but on which some well-worn paths [emerge for] controlling reasons'.18 These controlling reasons were predicated on the efficient movement... | |
 | William Galvani - 1999 - 236 sider
...is renewed in a year, in a day, or in an hour. THOMAS HARDY from The Return of the Native, 1878 The first and most obvious light in which the sea presents itself from the political and social viewpoint is that of a great highway; or better, perhaps, of a wide common, over which all men may... | |
 | Theodore Ropp - 2000 - 430 sider
...leading to almost all the coasts of the world. The first and most obvious light in which the sea piesents itself from the political and social point of view...men may pass in all directions, but on which some well worn paths show that controlling reasons have led them to choose certain lines of travel rather... | |
 | Felipe Fernández-Armesto - 2001 - 560 sider
...poetry of salt water is very much on the wane. —HERMAN MELVILLE, "Etchings of a Whaling Cruise" The first and most obvious light in which the sea presents...the political and social point of view is that of a highway; or better, perhaps, of a wide common, over which men may pass in all directions, but on which... | |
 | Buckner Melton - 2007 - 330 sider
...Press, 1989), ch. 5. A ship is a device: The classic statement is that of Alfred Thayer Mahan: The first and most obvious light in which the sea presents...view is that of a great highway; or better, perhaps a wide common, over which men may pass in all directions, but on which some well-worn paths show that... | |
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... a wide common, over which men may pass in all directions, but on which some well-worn paths show that controlling reasons have led them to choose certain lines of travel rather than others. 
