From Peking to PetersburgE. Arnold, 1899 - 300 pàgines |
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... fact one . I was at Singapore , midway between India and China , and I had already travelled from Singapore to London by way of Japan and America , and by way of the Suez Canal . Desiring to travel homewards again , I wished to do so by ...
... fact one . I was at Singapore , midway between India and China , and I had already travelled from Singapore to London by way of Japan and America , and by way of the Suez Canal . Desiring to travel homewards again , I wished to do so by ...
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... fact that cattle manure is in great demand for cementing the dried mud of which the houses are built . Of bathing arrangements there are none , the custom being for the traveller's servant to bring into his room a metal basin containing ...
... fact that cattle manure is in great demand for cementing the dried mud of which the houses are built . Of bathing arrangements there are none , the custom being for the traveller's servant to bring into his room a metal basin containing ...
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... fact that it did not exceed 78 ° in the shade scarcely expresses the real facts of the case . All three of us had been for some years accustomed to regions where a shade temperature of 78 ° would be reckoned as an exceedingly , cool day ...
... fact that it did not exceed 78 ° in the shade scarcely expresses the real facts of the case . All three of us had been for some years accustomed to regions where a shade temperature of 78 ° would be reckoned as an exceedingly , cool day ...
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... fact , while they were curious they were also civil . The official classes also we found helpful , though grudging . We only intended to stay one day at Kalgan , though ultimately that one day lengthened out to 40 FROM PEKING TO PETERSBURG.
... fact , while they were curious they were also civil . The official classes also we found helpful , though grudging . We only intended to stay one day at Kalgan , though ultimately that one day lengthened out to 40 FROM PEKING TO PETERSBURG.
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... fact that political and financial objects are inextricably mixed . Great Britain , Russia , France , and Germany are openly mixed in the matter politically . Belgian and American subjects are in it from a purely financial standpoint ...
... fact that political and financial objects are inextricably mixed . Great Britain , Russia , France , and Germany are openly mixed in the matter politically . Belgian and American subjects are in it from a purely financial standpoint ...
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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...