Around the World: A Friendly Guide for the World TravelerHoughton Mifflin, 1925 - 320 páginas |
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... PALACE ON LAKE PICHOLA , UDAI- PUR 260 DRAVIDIAN TEMPLE TO SIVA - TANJORE 276 DRAVIDIAN TEMPLE TO SIVA AND MINAKSHI — MA- DURA 280 WHEN THE MONSOON BLOWS COLOMBO 284 HOUR OF PRAYER IN THE DESERT 296 RUINS OF MEMPHIS 296 TEMPLE AT PHILÆ ...
... PALACE ON LAKE PICHOLA , UDAI- PUR 260 DRAVIDIAN TEMPLE TO SIVA - TANJORE 276 DRAVIDIAN TEMPLE TO SIVA AND MINAKSHI — MA- DURA 280 WHEN THE MONSOON BLOWS COLOMBO 284 HOUR OF PRAYER IN THE DESERT 296 RUINS OF MEMPHIS 296 TEMPLE AT PHILÆ ...
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... Palace was spared , owing to its having been surrounded by massive stone walls and a series of moats . The strictly native architecture of the Palace alone entitles it to a visit . A drive through pic- turesque Shiba Park , with its ...
... Palace was spared , owing to its having been surrounded by massive stone walls and a series of moats . The strictly native architecture of the Palace alone entitles it to a visit . A drive through pic- turesque Shiba Park , with its ...
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... palace , Asano was appointed to take charge of the reception and entertainment of an envoy of the Mikado - a most important ceremony . Being more of a warrior than a diplomat , Asano called to his aid another UNDER NIPPON'S SKIES 27.
... palace , Asano was appointed to take charge of the reception and entertainment of an envoy of the Mikado - a most important ceremony . Being more of a warrior than a diplomat , Asano called to his aid another UNDER NIPPON'S SKIES 27.
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... palace by a private brawl was an offense to be wiped out only by death and confiscation . Asano was sentenced to immediate sui- cide by harakiri ( disemboweling ) , which he performed that very night . His estate was confiscated , his ...
... palace by a private brawl was an offense to be wiped out only by death and confiscation . Asano was sentenced to immediate sui- cide by harakiri ( disemboweling ) , which he performed that very night . His estate was confiscated , his ...
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... when the Shogun established his palace there in the seventeenth century , since which time the se- gregated district has been so designated . CHAPTER III NIKKO'S SUNNY SPLENDOR But aye from ruined faiths 34 AROUND THE WORLD.
... when the Shogun established his palace there in the seventeenth century , since which time the se- gregated district has been so designated . CHAPTER III NIKKO'S SUNNY SPLENDOR But aye from ruined faiths 34 AROUND THE WORLD.
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beautiful Benares boat British Buddha built Canton carved century China Chinese colored coolies cryptomerias dollars El Aguila Emperor exquisite face fact feet high Filipino five gates Gautama Buddha Government hand Heaven hills Hindu holy Hongkong hundred and fifty hundred feet imagine India interesting island Jain Japan Japanese Jeypore Korean Kublai Khan Kyoto lake Lake Lanao look magnificent Manila marble miles morning Moro mosque Mount Abu mountain native never night Nikko opium Orient pagoda Palace Peking Philippines priests Quézon railway Rajput ride river road royal sacred Sandakan shrine side Siva Siva's southern spot Sri Rangam stands steamer stone street Sulu summit temple there's thing thousand feet tion Tokyo tomb tower Towers of Silence town train traveler trees trip twenty-five Udaipur walls wonderful worship worth
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Página 190 - Fifteen men on the dead man's chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Página 71 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend ; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie. Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, " Fools ! your Reward is neither Here nor There.
Página 160 - From The Virgins my mid-sea course was ta'en "Over a thousand islands lost in an idle main, " Where the sea-egg flames on the coral and the long-backed breakers croon "Their endless ocean legends to the lazy, locked lagoon.
Página 120 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Página 180 - When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Página 13 - twill all be well." "Well," murmur'd one, "Let whoso make or buy, My Clay with long Oblivion is gone dry: But fill me with the old familiar Juice, Methinks I might recover by and by.
Página 1 - I'd sell my tired soul for the bucking beam-sea roll Of a black Bilbao tramp, With her load-line over her hatch, dear lass, And a drunken Dago crew, And her nose held down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail From Cadiz south on the Long Trail - the trail that is always new.
Página 51 - When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last, Which of our Coming and Departure heeds As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
Página 89 - It would be easy to raise in China an army of a million men — nay, of ten millions — tested by competitive examination as to their capacity to go to sleep across three wheelbarrows, with head downwards, like a spider, their mouths wide open and a fly inside I Beside this, we must take account of the fact that in China breathing seems to be optional.
Página 44 - And have ye not read this Scripture ; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner...