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Pagina 35 - Of the two separate peaks, called Little and Great Ararat, which are separated by a chasm about seven miles in width, Sir Robert thus speaks ; — ' These inaccessible summits have never been trodden by the foot of man, since the days of Noah, if even then, for my idea is that the ark rested in the space between these heads, and not on the top of either. Various attempts have been made in different ages to ascend these tremendous mountain pyramids, but in vain; their form, snows, and glaciers are...
Pagina 203 - You are both young,' he added, ' and can hope for anything.' " During the conversation the Viceroy frequently smiled, and sometimes came so near overstepping the bounds of Chinese propriety as to chuckle. At first his reception was more formal, but his interest soon led him to dispense with all formality, and before the close of the interview the questions were rapidly asked and discussed. We have had some experience with examining attorneys, and an extended acquaintance with the American reporter;...
Pagina 1 - Across Asia on a bicycle: the journey of two American students from Constantinople to Peking, [1891-92].
Pagina 29 - ABDUL MEDJID, Granted in favour of His Protestant Subjects. Most honoured Vizier, illustrious Counsellor, Maintainer of the good order of the world, Director of Public Affairs with wisdom and judgment, Accomplisher of the important Transactions of Mankind with intelligence and good sense, Consolidator of the Edifice of Empire and of Glory, endowed by the Most High with abundant gifts, and Moushir, at this time, of my gate of felicity, my Vizier Mehmed Pasha, may God be pleased to preserve him long...
Pagina 170 - Lands,' the arable regions of China have maintained their fruitfulness for over four thousand years, entirely through the thoughtful care of the peasantry in restoring to the soil under another form all that the crops have taken from it. Nothing is wasted. " (iii) The North of China produces wheat, millet and cotton; the South, rice, tea and sugar, »nk and opium.
Pagina 198 - ... say, after a good account of Li's audience chamber and person : " Under the scraggy mustach • we could distinguish a rather benevolent though determined mouth ; while his small, keen eyes, which were somewhat sunken, gave forth a flash that was perhaps but a flickering ember of the fire they once contained. The left eye, which was partly closed by a paralytic stroke several years ago, gave him a rather artful, waggish appearance. The whole physiognomy was that of a man of strong intuition,...
Pagina 36 - At this moment I am persuaded that there is not a person living within sight of Ararat, unless, possibly, some exceptionally educated Russian official in Erivan, who believes that any human foot since father Noah's has trodden that sacred summit. So much stronger is faith than sight; or rather, perhaps, so much stronger is prejudice than evidence.
Pagina 166 - ... fourteen hundred years. In its present condition the Great Wall belongs to various epochs. In the severe Mongolian climate, with its sudden and violent transitions of temperature, a very few years suffice to crumble most ordinary buildings, and it may be doubted whether any portion of Shi Hoangti's original work still survives. Nearly all the eastern section from Ordos to the Yellow Sea was rebuilt in the fifth century, and the double rampart along the north-west frontier of the plains of Peking...
Pagina 198 - OF REVIEWS. America the greatest country we had seen. We ought of course to have said that no reasonable person in the world would ever think of putting any other country above the Celestial Empire ; our bluntness elicited some surprise, for the Viceroy said : " ' If then you thought that America was the best why did you come to see other countries?' "' Because until we had seen other countries,' we replied, ' we did not know that America was the best.
Pagina 36 - The venerable man smiled sweetly. ' No,' he replied, ' that cannot be. No one has ever been there. It is impossible.