Letters from China & JapanH.S. King & Company, 1875 - 210 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 24
Página 26
... England , which , with the mails now existing , will enable us to have weekly communication . You can believe how delighted I was , when a neighbour came in yesterday to call my attention to the red flag which floated from the top of ...
... England , which , with the mails now existing , will enable us to have weekly communication . You can believe how delighted I was , when a neighbour came in yesterday to call my attention to the red flag which floated from the top of ...
Página 33
... England , and in fact that they hardly considered themselves Chinese , though they still wear the national dress , and conform to a certain extent to the national customs . The two daughters have very sweet voices , and have promised to ...
... England , and in fact that they hardly considered themselves Chinese , though they still wear the national dress , and conform to a certain extent to the national customs . The two daughters have very sweet voices , and have promised to ...
Página 37
... England . I insist on retiring to rest betimes , as I found it did not suit me to conform to Chinese hours in the morning , and English ones at night , especially as for some time I was perpetually awakened by the various noises which ...
... England . I insist on retiring to rest betimes , as I found it did not suit me to conform to Chinese hours in the morning , and English ones at night , especially as for some time I was perpetually awakened by the various noises which ...
Página 50
... England , including even household stores . We do not think , however , that for so small a ménage as ours , it would be worth the trouble of doing the latter . We wish very much that our supply of garden tools should be accompanied by ...
... England , including even household stores . We do not think , however , that for so small a ménage as ours , it would be worth the trouble of doing the latter . We wish very much that our supply of garden tools should be accompanied by ...
Página 63
... England . It is the common belief here that no instrument will stand the climate that is not made expressly for the pur- pose . My theory is , that what is a first - rate instrument at home will do best here also , but you must have ...
... England . It is the common belief here that no instrument will stand the climate that is not made expressly for the pur- pose . My theory is , that what is a first - rate instrument at home will do best here also , but you must have ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
amusing appearance arrived Arsenal Athenæum bamboo beautiful boats Captain carried chairs character charming China Chinese chow-chow Church Churchman clever Cloth coolies Cornhill Library Crown 8vo curious Demy 8vo dress England English European Fcap Foo-Chow friends Frontispiece garden give handsome harmonium Henry hills Hong-Kong honour hour Illustrations interesting Japan Japanese kind King and Co.'s ladies land late LETTER Library of Fiction lively LL.D looking lovely Mall Gazette Mandarin manner Messrs Mikado Military mind morning Nagasaki NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Ningpo novel pleasant Poems political Portrait Post 8vo present pretty Prof Quarterly Review readable readers river SAMUEL LOVER Second Edition seems Sermons servant Shanghai ship Small crown 8vo steamer Stopford Brooke story temple Third Edition Tien-tsin tiffin tion told Translated vols volume walk writes written Yamûn Yedo Yokohama
Pasajes populares
Página 70 - YOUMANS (Eliza A.). An Essay on the Culture of the Observing Powers of Children, especially in connection with the Study of Botany. Edited, with Notes and a Supplement, by Joseph Payne, FCP, Author of " Lectures on the Science and Art of Education,
Página 53 - ROBERTSON, The late Rev. FW, MA Life and Letters of. Edited by the Rev. Stopford Brooke, MA I. Two vols., uniform with the Sermons. With Steel Portrait. Crown 8vo, 7*.
Página 53 - Memoriam." (Dedicated by Permission to the Poet-Laureate.) Fcap. 8vo, 2s. The Education of the Human Race. Translated from the German of GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING. Fcap.
Página 13 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Página 29 - HARCOURT (Capt. AFP). The Shakespeare Argosy. Containing much of the wealth of Shakespeare's Wisdom and Wit, alphabetically arranged and classified. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s.
Página 31 - An Atlas of Diseases of the Membrana Tympani. With Descriptive Text. Post 8vo.
Página 30 - HELLWALD (Baron F. von). The Russians in Central Asia. A Critical Examination, down to the present time, of the Geography and History of Central Asia.
Página 2 - AKHB A Scotch Communion Sunday, to which are added Certain Discourses from a University City. By the Author of " The Recreations of a Country Parson.
Página 6 - Vera." 2 vols. Fifth Edition. Cloth, gilt tops, I2j. *„* Also a Cheaper Edition in i vol. With Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s. BLU ME (Major W.). The Operations of the German Armies in France, from Sedan to the end of the war of 187071. With Map. From the Journals of the Head-quarters Staff. Translated by the late EM Jones, Maj.
Página 32 - HOOPER (Mary. Little Dinners: How to Serve them with Elegance and Economy. Thirteenth Edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 5*.