From Peking to PetersburgE. Arnold, 1899 - 300 pàgines |
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... lane added to lane . Peking , on the other hand , is a city built four- square , approached and traversed by several roads that were meant to be great highways . In the centre is the Imperial City , some part of which I AT PEKING.
... lane added to lane . Peking , on the other hand , is a city built four- square , approached and traversed by several roads that were meant to be great highways . In the centre is the Imperial City , some part of which I AT PEKING.
Pàgina 2
... roads , Peking might become the healthy capital of a vigorous empire . Such a change would symbolize everything else . But , even as things are , there is little doubt that the Forbidden City , with its spacious lawns and lakes , is the ...
... roads , Peking might become the healthy capital of a vigorous empire . Such a change would symbolize everything else . But , even as things are , there is little doubt that the Forbidden City , with its spacious lawns and lakes , is the ...
Pàgina 6
... roads , remove the refuse , and you would make it a fine city . It has much the same advantages that London has obtained from being a city of royal residence . The Forbidden City has its parallel in the open spaces that begin in ...
... roads , remove the refuse , and you would make it a fine city . It has much the same advantages that London has obtained from being a city of royal residence . The Forbidden City has its parallel in the open spaces that begin in ...
Pàgina 28
... road and of the ways of the people - even such a knowledge as I now possess I would regard four days as the maximum period for that part of the journey , while with a more thorough knowledge of the people and the language , and an extra ...
... road and of the ways of the people - even such a knowledge as I now possess I would regard four days as the maximum period for that part of the journey , while with a more thorough knowledge of the people and the language , and an extra ...
Pàgina 34
... road being , as it happened , more difficult than in the morning , and then called a halt at another consider- able town called Sha - Cheng . The general order to the boy ' was that he should devote himself solely to preparing dinner by ...
... road being , as it happened , more difficult than in the morning , and then called a halt at another consider- able town called Sha - Cheng . The general order to the boy ' was that he should devote himself solely to preparing dinner by ...
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