Our New Way Round the WorldFields, Osgood, & Company, 1869 - 524 Seiten |
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Allahabad American ancient bamboo Bay of Bengal beautiful behold Benares beneath boats Bombay Brahmans Calcutta canal Canton centuries China Chinese Christian church civilization coast Confucius Constantinople coolies crowd damios dollars East Egypt empire England English Europeans feet fifty five flowers foreign four hundred Ganges green hands Hankow harbor hills Hindoo Hong Kong houses idols India island Ismail Pasha Japan junks land live look ment merchants miles million missionaries months mountains Nagasaki nations native night northern numerous obtained opium palace pass passengers Pekin Peninsular and Oriental port priests provinces railroad railway reach Red Sea religion residences ride river route sailing sampans Shanghae ships shore southern steamer stream streets Suez temples thousand tion town trade trees twenty valley vessels walls western wind women wonderful worship Yangtse Yedo Yokohama
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 62 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Seite 146 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.
Seite 192 - The physical organization of the Bengalee is feeble even to effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, veracity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable.
Seite 192 - What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Largo promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive and defensive, of the people of the Lower Ganges.
Seite 260 - Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Seite 81 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Seite 94 - Yes, that blessed name imparts Comfort to those, who in the grave have sown The seed, that they had garnered in their hearts, Their bread of life, alas ! no more their own. Into its furrows shall we all be cast, In the sure faith, that we shall rise again At the great harvest, when the arch-angel's blast Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain.
Seite 358 - The kings found in him a man full of complaisance ; the pagans a minister who accommodated himself to their superstitions ; the mandarins a polite courtier skilled in all the trickery of courts ; and the devil a faithful servant, who, far from destroying, established his reign among the heathen, and even extended it to the Christians.
Seite 160 - Bordering on light; when straight behold the throne Of Chaos, and his dark pavilion spread Wide on the wasteful deep...
Seite 272 - IT IS TRUE, I CANNOT PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FLOWING POISON; GAIN-SEEKING AND CORRUPT MEN WILL, FOR PROFIT AND SENSUALITY, DEFEAT MY WISHES ; BUT NOTHING WILL INDUCE ME TO DERIVE A REVENUE FROM THE VICE AND MISERY OF MY PEOPLE.