Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and ChinaJ. Murray, 1863 - 395 páginas |
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... pretty little island of Papenberg stands as if it were a sentinel guarding the harbour of Nagasaki . Pretty it certainly is , and yet it is associated with scenes of persecution , cruelty , and bloodshed of the most horrible description ...
... pretty little island of Papenberg stands as if it were a sentinel guarding the harbour of Nagasaki . Pretty it certainly is , and yet it is associated with scenes of persecution , cruelty , and bloodshed of the most horrible description ...
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... pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets ; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit . Everywhere the inhabitants received me most politely , and per- mitted me to examine their pet ...
... pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets ; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit . Everywhere the inhabitants received me most politely , and per- mitted me to examine their pet ...
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... pretty little dwarf variegated bamboo introduced by me into England from China , Pines , Junipers , Taxus , Po- docarpus , Rhapis flabelliformis , and some ferns . These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working ...
... pretty little dwarf variegated bamboo introduced by me into England from China , Pines , Junipers , Taxus , Po- docarpus , Rhapis flabelliformis , and some ferns . These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working ...
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... pretty one it makes . When I first saw it used for this purpose , it struck me that something of the same kind might be done with it at home , now that it is so common in every nursery . The Japanese man- age it much in the same way as ...
... pretty one it makes . When I first saw it used for this purpose , it struck me that something of the same kind might be done with it at home , now that it is so common in every nursery . The Japanese man- age it much in the same way as ...
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... All sorts of toys were abundant , and some of them were most ingenious and pretty . There were glass balls , with numerous little tortoises in- side them , whose heads , tails , and feet D 2 CHAP . II . 35 LACQUER - WARE PORCELAIN .
... All sorts of toys were abundant , and some of them were most ingenious and pretty . There were glass balls , with numerous little tortoises in- side them , whose heads , tails , and feet D 2 CHAP . II . 35 LACQUER - WARE PORCELAIN .
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Página 87 - ... norimon. The officers of his household, whose place is on each side of him, rushed forward at this unprecedented interruption — a fatal move, which had evidently been anticipated, for their place was instantly filled with armed men in coats of mail, who seemed to have sprung from the earth — a compact band of some eighteen or twenty men. With flashing swords and frightful yells, blows were struck at all around, the lightest of which severed men's hands from the poles of the norimon, and cut...
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