The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan, Volum 2Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863 |
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The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence ..., Volum 2 Sir Rutherford Alcock Visualització completa - 1868 |
The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years Residence ..., Volum 2 Sir Rutherford Alcock Visualització completa - 1863 |
The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence ..., Volum 2 Sir Rutherford Alcock Visualització completa - 1863 |
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Pàgina 420 - As some time will elapse before the Japanese will become acquainted with the value of foreign coin, the Japanese Government will, for the period of one year after the opening of each port, furnish British subjects with Japanese coin, in exchange for theirs, equal weights being given, and no 'discount
Pàgina 137 - said, Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once. And so it
Pàgina 337 - J'ai toujours remarqué que partout où on introduisait, non des chefs européens, mais une population européenne au sein des populations imparfaitement civilisées du reste du monde, la supériorité réelle et prétendue de la première sur les secondes se faisait sentir d'une façon si blessante pour les intérêts individuels et si mortifiante pour
Pàgina 238 - obscure and imperfect notions of the immortality of the soul and a future state of bliss or misery. But so far as I have seen, the educated classes scoff at all such doctrines, as fit only for the vulgar and the ignorant;. and believe with
Pàgina 317 - A spurious mixture of the theocratic and patriarchal elements form the bases of all government both in the Celestial and the Japanese Empires, under emperors who claim not only to be each the Patriarch and father of his people, but also Divine descent.
Pàgina 316 - The Christians whom you make recognise no authority but you; in times of trouble they would listen to no other voice. I know well enough that there is nothing to fear at present; but when your ships shall be coming by thousands and tens of thousands, then, indeed, we may have some disturbances.
Pàgina 124 - of feeling or opinion. In one case only, I was amused by a somewhat characteristic trait. Mr. De Wit and I were riding abreast and without any escort, having left them far behind, when, seeing rather a large cortege filling up the road as we turned an angle, we drew to one side of the road
Pàgina 228 - picture of Leonardo da Vinci dying at Fontainebleau, in the arms of Francis I., is opposed by a double alibi. And so of Sir A. Callcott's picture of 'Milton and his daughters,
Pàgina 263 - showed; yet the Japanese bronze castings are, some of them, scarce inferior in skilled workmanship and mixture of metals to anything we can produce of the same kind. No Japanese can produce anything to be named in the same day with a work from the pencil of a Landseer, a Roberts, or a Stanfield, a Lewis, or
Pàgina 124 - and went in single file. No sooner did the leading officer observe the movement, than he instantly began to swagger, and motioned all the train to spread themselves over the whole road ; so that all we gained by our consideration and courtesy, was to run the risk of being pushed into the ditch by an insolent subordinate.* Thus it