Yedo and Peking, a narrative of a journey1863 |
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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- 36 TOYS MAPS . CHAP . II . side them 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- 36 TOYS MAPS . CHAP . II . side them D 2 CHAP . II . 35 LACQUER - WARE - PORCELAIN .
Términos y frases comunes
Alcock already amongst appearance arrived Aucuba beautiful bloom Buddhist capital CHAP China Chinese collection colour covered crops crowd cultivation curious Daimios Damaster doubt Emperor England English Europe Fcap feet flowers foreign gale gardens Government ground hill-sides hills Hiogo History horses houses Imperial highway Inland Sea islands Japan Japanese japonica journey Kamakura Kanagawa kind ladies land leaves Legation look Majesty's Mikado miles Minister morning mountains Nagasaki natives night Nipon noticed observed Osaca passed Pei-ho Peking Pinus Massoniana plants port Portrait Post 8vo present pretty priests Prince remarkable residence rice valleys road saki scene scenery Second Edition seen Shanghae ship shops shores shrubs side species strait streets suburbs tea-houses temple Third Edition Thousand Thujopsis dolabrata Tien-tsin tion town trade travellers treaty trees Tycoon valleys variegated villages Vols Weigela winter Woodcuts woods yakoneens Yedo Yokuhama СНАР
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