Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 222William Blackwood, 1927 |
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Pagina 1
... French , Italian , Spanish , Japanese ; the tugs , tenders , ocean - going transports , and liners ; the junks with their great sails and heavy cumbrous lines , and the little sampans , with their crews packed below deck , calling to ...
... French , Italian , Spanish , Japanese ; the tugs , tenders , ocean - going transports , and liners ; the junks with their great sails and heavy cumbrous lines , and the little sampans , with their crews packed below deck , calling to ...
Pagina 2
... French French town . Everywhere are modern Euro- pean buildings , interspersed with Chinese shops ; excellent roads and broad pavements ; rickshaws in thousands and motor cars in hundreds ; crowded tram - cars and streets full of ...
... French French town . Everywhere are modern Euro- pean buildings , interspersed with Chinese shops ; excellent roads and broad pavements ; rickshaws in thousands and motor cars in hundreds ; crowded tram - cars and streets full of ...
Pagina 3
... French Tricolors , the Whang - Pu , but the Soo- but to - morrow , perhaps , the chow Creek , which forms for Kuomintang colours will flutter several miles the Settlement from every building , for the boundary , is also crowded with ...
... French Tricolors , the Whang - Pu , but the Soo- but to - morrow , perhaps , the chow Creek , which forms for Kuomintang colours will flutter several miles the Settlement from every building , for the boundary , is also crowded with ...
Pagina 4
... French Settlement , one of the principal residential parts of Shanghai , facing the Chinese city , and joined to the Inter- national Settlement by streets the names of which recall friendly relations with the Brit- ish- Avenue Edouard ...
... French Settlement , one of the principal residential parts of Shanghai , facing the Chinese city , and joined to the Inter- national Settlement by streets the names of which recall friendly relations with the Brit- ish- Avenue Edouard ...
Pagina 5
... French Settlement by a Chinese gunboat , which , on the advance of the Cantonese army , deserts from the North and joins the South . Report says that the shells are directed at the arsenal , which lies a mile and a half outside the French ...
... French Settlement by a Chinese gunboat , which , on the advance of the Cantonese army , deserts from the North and joins the South . Report says that the shells are directed at the arsenal , which lies a mile and a half outside the French ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Populaire passages
Pagina 152 - Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer, Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
Pagina 283 - How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal to the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two, shall hardly be understood without an interpreter?
Pagina 282 - ... that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Pagina 285 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy...
Pagina 59 - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
Pagina 516 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Pagina 285 - The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom...
Pagina 849 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
Pagina 60 - The populace, at first, did not interrupt him, conceiving our army to be near the town ; but as soon as they knew that it would not arrive till the evening, they surrounded him in a tumultuous manner, with the intention of taking him prisoner, alive or dead.
Pagina 155 - Westminster Hall ; for many people think, if once they have fetched a warrant from a justice, they have given earnest to follow the suit, though otherwise the matter be so mean that the next night's sleep would have bound both parties to the peace, and made them as good friends as ever before.