Round the World in 1870: An Account of a Brief Tour Made Through India, China, Japan, California, and South AmericaH. S. King & Company, 1872 - 408 من الصفحات |
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... whole interior of the church is covered almost to excess with inlaid marbles , bas - reliefs , mosaics , and ornamental stone - work ; and the arches , especially in the side aisles , are very handsome . We take a short drive along the ...
... whole interior of the church is covered almost to excess with inlaid marbles , bas - reliefs , mosaics , and ornamental stone - work ; and the arches , especially in the side aisles , are very handsome . We take a short drive along the ...
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... whole country looks as if it had but just cooled down from being in a state of white heat , or as if a searing - iron had been carefully passed over every square foot of it , and had scorched off every living or growing thing . Yet this ...
... whole country looks as if it had but just cooled down from being in a state of white heat , or as if a searing - iron had been carefully passed over every square foot of it , and had scorched off every living or growing thing . Yet this ...
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... whole of Aden for more than two years ; but , as we see them , they would almost seem to have been put up as a satire on the climate , for there is scarcely a hundred gallons in the whole of them . We make our way back to the steamer ...
... whole of Aden for more than two years ; but , as we see them , they would almost seem to have been put up as a satire on the climate , for there is scarcely a hundred gallons in the whole of them . We make our way back to the steamer ...
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... whole of their wardrobe ; for the rest , they follow the fashion of the Garden of Eden . Yet their appearance will not shock you as much as you might have expected . A black skin , somehow or other , has a look of dress about it , and ...
... whole of their wardrobe ; for the rest , they follow the fashion of the Garden of Eden . Yet their appearance will not shock you as much as you might have expected . A black skin , somehow or other , has a look of dress about it , and ...
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... whole length of the great plain of Bengal without a break , it will be some years before it reaches Calcutta itself . No profane bridge has yet spanned the sacred waters of the Hooghly , and in leaving Calcutta we have to cross the ...
... whole length of the great plain of Bengal without a break , it will be some years before it reaches Calcutta itself . No profane bridge has yet spanned the sacred waters of the Hooghly , and in leaving Calcutta we have to cross the ...
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Banda Oriental bank beautiful broad Buenos Ayres buildings Calcutta Callao Canton Cape Pillar Cawnpore China Chinese coast colour coolies Cordova course distance English estancia European feet flat foot foreign garden gauchos gharry green half handsome Hankow harbour height hills Himalayas Hongkong horses houses hundred island Japan Japanese kind Kobé land leave look Lucknow mid-day miles Monte Video morning mountains Mussoorie native nearly neighbouring night Ningpo Osaca palkees Pampas pass Penang picturesque plain port Punta Arenas quarter railway reach ride ridge rise river road rock round running San Francisco scarcely scene seems Shanghae sheep Shogun shops side Sierra sight slopes stands steamer stone Strait stream streets summit surrounded tea-houses temple Tocaido town traveller trees Uruguay valley Valparaiso vessel village voyage walk walls wind wood yards Yedo Yokohama
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الصفحة 207 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
الصفحة 13 - Stood on my feet. About me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams ; by these, Creatures that lived and moved, and walk'd or flew, Birds on the branches warbling ; all things smiled ; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
الصفحة 89 - Or other worlds they seem'd, or happy isles, Like those Hesperian gardens fam'd of old, Fortunate fields, and groves, and flowery vales, Thrice happy isles...
الصفحة 176 - O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us!
الصفحة 151 - It is said of man morally, that the whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint — that from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, there is no soundness in him.
الصفحة 275 - But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken.
الصفحة 51 - Here lies Henry Lawrence, who tried to do his duty. May the Lord have mercy on his soul.
الصفحة 231 - Access denied ; and over-head up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
الصفحة 117 - Former customers have inspired caution, — no credit given." "A small stream always flowing."