 | Samuel Wells Williams - 1848 - 654 pàgines
...in China are unusually great, and have been moreover improved by art for travel and transportation. The assertion, that there is a greater amount of tonnage belonging to the Chiness than to all other nations combined, does not appear overcharged to those who have seen the... | |
 | 1858 - 786 pàgines
...semi-civilized people, is almost self satisfying in its completeness and variety. It has been asserted that there is a greater amount of tonnage belonging to the Chinese than to all the other nations of the world combined ; and the number of the people constantly resident upon tho... | |
 | 1858 - 784 pàgines
...semi-civilized people, is almost self-satisfying in its completeness and variety. It has been asserted that there is a greater amount of tonnage belonging to the Chinese than to all the other nations of the world combined; and the number of the people constantly resident upon the... | |
 | 1864 - 790 pàgines
...about 1100,000,000 annually), compared with it, being but trifling. It has been asserted that there U a greater amount of tonnage belonging to the Chinese than to all oilier nations combined. Myriads of freight boats are constantly plying upon the gigantic network of... | |
 | Michael McN. Walsh - 1867 - 180 pàgines
...more than a pigmy by the side of China. England leads all other European nations in commerce ; but there is a greater amount of tonnage belonging to the Chinese than to all other nations combined. Prussia is supposed to have one of the best educational systems in Europe; but there is no school system... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 592 pàgines
...have a popular saying "Hat vu ping, Kiang vu ti" " Boundless is the Ocean, bottomless the Kiang ! " NOTE 3.—" The assertion that there is a greater...specific numbers, quite bears out Marco's account. This part of China suffered so long from the wars of the Taiping rebellion that to recent travellers it... | |
 | 1873 - 806 pàgines
...produce. The inland commerce of China is undoubtedly of stupendous dimensions. It has been asserted that there is a greater amount of tonnage belonging...to the Chinese than to all other nations combined. Myriads of freight boats are constantly plying upon the gigantic network of natural and artificial... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 832 pàgines
...inland commerce of China is undouhtedly of stupendous dimensions. It has been asserted that there is n greater amount of tonnage belonging to the Chinese than to all other nations combined. Myriads of freight boats are constantly plying upon the gigantic network of natural and artificial... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1883 - 852 pàgines
...produce. The inland commerce of China is undoubtedly of stupendous dimensions. It has been asserted that there is a greater amount of tonnage belonging...to the Chinese than to all other nations combined. Myriads of freight boats are constantly plying upon the gigantic network of natural and artificial... | |
 | John D. Clark - 1894 - 210 pàgines
...insignificant compared to what they are at present. In the " Middle Kingdom," Dr. Williams says: — "The assertion that there is a greater amount of tonnage belonging to the Chinese than to all nations combined does not appear overcharged to those who have seen the swarms of boats on their rivers;... | |
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The assertion that there is a greater amount of tonnage belonging to the Chinese than to all other nations combined, does not appear overcharged to those who have seen the swarms of boats on their rivers, though it might not be found strictly true. 
