The People of China: Their Country, History, Life, Ideas, and Relations with the ForeignerMethuen & Company, 1900 - 198 pàgines |
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... contain but the mass of solid matter which they bring down from the highlands . In some districts , as in Egypt , the floods are carefully managed , the yellow water enriching the fields after the same fashion as the Nile . In the ...
... contain but the mass of solid matter which they bring down from the highlands . In some districts , as in Egypt , the floods are carefully managed , the yellow water enriching the fields after the same fashion as the Nile . In the ...
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... contains 400 square miles and a population of some 100,000 . The China squadron , which has its headquarters at Hongkong , numbers 35 vessels . 2 The Chinese view was that while a few merchants might reside in particular quarters in the ...
... contains 400 square miles and a population of some 100,000 . The China squadron , which has its headquarters at Hongkong , numbers 35 vessels . 2 The Chinese view was that while a few merchants might reside in particular quarters in the ...
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... contain only persons waiting for trial . " There are no cruelties practised in Chinese gaols greater , even if there are any equal to the awful degraded brutality with which the England of our fathers treated her convicts in the penal ...
... contain only persons waiting for trial . " There are no cruelties practised in Chinese gaols greater , even if there are any equal to the awful degraded brutality with which the England of our fathers treated her convicts in the penal ...
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... contain gross misconceptions , -that many Frenchmen are convinced that Englishmen sell their wives at Smithfield and not a few Britons imagine that stewed frogs are a regular dish in Gallic households , -it is surely not improb- able ...
... contain gross misconceptions , -that many Frenchmen are convinced that Englishmen sell their wives at Smithfield and not a few Britons imagine that stewed frogs are a regular dish in Gallic households , -it is surely not improb- able ...
Pàgina 124
... contain many men with faces of the highest religious type , and whatever the exceptions may be , is it not well to bear in mind the wise words of Professor Max Müller ? _ " If we claim the right to appeal to the Gospel as the only test ...
... contain many men with faces of the highest religious type , and whatever the exceptions may be , is it not well to bear in mind the wise words of Professor Max Müller ? _ " If we claim the right to appeal to the Gospel as the only test ...
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