Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries. With Additional Chapters on English Influence in Japan and China, and on Hong Kong and the Straits SettlementsMacmillan, 1890 - 633 páginas |
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... French in Australia or Italian in Timbuctoo . The Englishman who , coming to America , expects to find cities that smell of home , soon learns that Baker Street itself , or Portland Place , would not look English in the dry air of a ...
... French in Australia or Italian in Timbuctoo . The Englishman who , coming to America , expects to find cities that smell of home , soon learns that Baker Street itself , or Portland Place , would not look English in the dry air of a ...
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... French , not of the American or English type . At the back , here , on the city side , are tall gaunt houses , painted red , like those on the quay at Dort or on the Boompjes at Rotterdam , the former dwellings of the " Knickerbockers ...
... French , not of the American or English type . At the back , here , on the city side , are tall gaunt houses , painted red , like those on the quay at Dort or on the Boompjes at Rotterdam , the former dwellings of the " Knickerbockers ...
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... French , Italians , Germans . " " Guess that's only seven . " " Swedes , " suggested some one . said the colonel . " Ah ! I have it : I've some Americans . " Stories such as this the rich New Yorkers are nothing loath to tell ; but they ...
... French , Italians , Germans . " " Guess that's only seven . " " Swedes , " suggested some one . said the colonel . " Ah ! I have it : I've some Americans . " Stories such as this the rich New Yorkers are nothing loath to tell ; but they ...
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... French capital outherods imperial Rome . There is here no concealment about the matter ; each inhabitant at once admits the truth of accusations directed against his neighbour . If the new - men , the " petroleum aristocracy , " are ...
... French capital outherods imperial Rome . There is here no concealment about the matter ; each inhabitant at once admits the truth of accusations directed against his neighbour . If the new - men , the " petroleum aristocracy , " are ...
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... signs of weak- ness than the men , and the high , undulating tones which are affectation in the French are natural to the ladies of America ; little can be expected of women whose only exercise is 35 [ CHAP . V. GREATER BRITAIN .
... signs of weak- ness than the men , and the high , undulating tones which are affectation in the French are natural to the ladies of America ; little can be expected of women whose only exercise is 35 [ CHAP . V. GREATER BRITAIN .
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