From Peking to PetersburgE. Arnold, 1899 - 300 pàgines |
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... whole is falling to decay for lack of public spirit . The period of my visit , the latter half of August , is not the best period to visit Peking . I selected that time because Peking was to me only the starting- point for my journey ...
... whole is falling to decay for lack of public spirit . The period of my visit , the latter half of August , is not the best period to visit Peking . I selected that time because Peking was to me only the starting- point for my journey ...
Pàgina 14
... whole of that time he was , of course , at work day by day , himself directing and deciding everything . That , of course , is a dangerous situa- tion in which to place the customs service . With all deference to Sir Robert's great ...
... whole of that time he was , of course , at work day by day , himself directing and deciding everything . That , of course , is a dangerous situa- tion in which to place the customs service . With all deference to Sir Robert's great ...
Pàgina 16
... whole world — it may be well to say something of his personality . Morrison is a young man - not much , I think , above thirty years of age - and he was not by training a journalist . He is by birth an Australian , by pro- fession a ...
... whole world — it may be well to say something of his personality . Morrison is a young man - not much , I think , above thirty years of age - and he was not by training a journalist . He is by birth an Australian , by pro- fession a ...
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... whole , I can , perhaps , best reply by quoting and adapting the words that Sir Edwin Arnold addressed to me years ago . ' I think , ' said Sir Edwin , speaking with that fulness of style that used to characterize the Daily Telegraph ...
... whole , I can , perhaps , best reply by quoting and adapting the words that Sir Edwin Arnold addressed to me years ago . ' I think , ' said Sir Edwin , speaking with that fulness of style that used to characterize the Daily Telegraph ...
Pàgina 34
... whole party getting under way again precisely at noon . ' Between that hour and a quarter past five o'clock we made another sixteen or seventeen miles , the road being , as it happened , more difficult than in the morning , and then ...
... whole party getting under way again precisely at noon . ' Between that hour and a quarter past five o'clock we made another sixteen or seventeen miles , the road being , as it happened , more difficult than in the morning , and then ...
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