From Peking to PetersburgE. Arnold, 1899 - 300 pàgines |
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Pàgina 12
... Russian legations , and in both cases some ingenuity has been exercised in converting the temples of Chinese gods to the domestic uses of the foreigners . At the British legation all the dominant features of Chinese temple architecture ...
... Russian legations , and in both cases some ingenuity has been exercised in converting the temples of Chinese gods to the domestic uses of the foreigners . At the British legation all the dominant features of Chinese temple architecture ...
Pàgina 13
... Russian strength . At the legations , other than the British , Russian , and American , I was not a visitor ; but one could not go about the town with- out seeing these houses much in evidence , nor could one frequent the Peking Club ...
... Russian strength . At the legations , other than the British , Russian , and American , I was not a visitor ; but one could not go about the town with- out seeing these houses much in evidence , nor could one frequent the Peking Club ...
Pàgina 23
... Russian Chargé d'Affaires , would be the best person to obtain for me an order from the Tsung - li - Yamen to the Mongolian headmen to supply me with trans- port through Mongolia . The reason of that belief is that the Russian overland ...
... Russian Chargé d'Affaires , would be the best person to obtain for me an order from the Tsung - li - Yamen to the Mongolian headmen to supply me with trans- port through Mongolia . The reason of that belief is that the Russian overland ...
Pàgina 29
... Russia and China . That trade is probably not so great as once it was , in so far as the tea trade is now partly conducted by Russian steamers sailing from China ports to Odessa ; but it is still very great , there being several Russian ...
... Russia and China . That trade is probably not so great as once it was , in so far as the tea trade is now partly conducted by Russian steamers sailing from China ports to Odessa ; but it is still very great , there being several Russian ...
Pàgina 41
... Russian merchants and the Russian postmaster . But as I speak no Russian , and as the Russians spoke no French or German , things did not progress much , although happily two of the Russians spoke a little English and had a Russo ...
... Russian merchants and the Russian postmaster . But as I speak no Russian , and as the Russians spoke no French or German , things did not progress much , although happily two of the Russians spoke a little English and had a Russo ...
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Pàgina 24 - VOLUME II. Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE. 'Sportsmen of all descriptions will gladly welcome the sumptuous new edition issued by Mr. Edward Arnold of Colonel T. Thornton's Sporting Tour," which has long been a scarce book.
Pàgina 292 - How shall two walk together except they be agreed ? How shall there be true sympathy between a nation whose political activities are world-wide, and one that eats out its heart in merely internal political strife ? When we begin really to look abroad, and to busy ourselves with our duties to the world at large in our generation — and not before — we shall stretch out our hands to Great Britain, realizing that in unity of heart among the Englishspeaking races lies the best hope of humanity in...