 | 1888 - 398 páginas
...quarreling adults. He can sleep on the ground, on the floor, on a bed, on a chair, in any position. It would be easy to raise in China an army of a million...capacity to go to sleep across three wheelbarrows, head downward like a spider, their mouths open and a fly inside. — Scientific American. Receive no... | |
 | 1889 - 416 páginas
...ground, on the floor, on a bed, on a chair, in any position. It would be easy to raise in China an army of ten millions, tested by competitive examination...capacity to go to sleep across three wheelbarrows, head downward, their mouths wide open and a fly inside. FEU., USEFUL RECIPES. Alcohol and Croton Oil.... | |
 | James Lane Allen - 1892 - 218 páginas
...working-people at least, and also in that of many others, position in sleep is of no sort of consequence. It would be easy to raise in China an army of a million...a spider, their mouths wide open and a fly inside. — Chinese Characteristics. THERE once lived in the city of Mexico a Frenchman known as Otavito (little... | |
 | Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore - 1900 - 498 páginas
...about China, and with which one only finds fault because there are not six more and larger volumes: "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,... | |
 | Chester Holcombe - 1900 - 424 páginas
...when he mentions the capacity of the natives " to go to sleep across three wheelbarrows, with heads downward like a spider, their mouths wide open, and a fly inside." Much undue importance is also given to local differences of dialect among the Chinese. These do not... | |
 | Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of Zetland - 1908 - 444 páginas
...FROHTIER REACHED. 271 prevented from falling asleep by any external circumstances. As Dr Smith has said, " It would be easy to raise in China an army of a million...to go to sleep across three wheelbarrows, with head downwards, like a spider, their mouths wide open and a fly inside ! " The last stage in Chinese territory... | |
 | Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of Zetland - 1908 - 466 páginas
...said, "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!" The last stage in Chinese territory... | |
 | 1908 - 882 páginas
...forty or fifty villages. Privacy and quiet are unknown. Dr. Arthur II. Smith, an authority, says that "it would be easy to raise in China an army of a million men, nay, ten millions, tested by a competitive examination as to their capacity to go to sleep across three... | |
 | Lydia He Liu - 1995 - 506 páginas
...working-people, at least, and also in that of many others, position in sleep is of no sort of consequence. It would be easy to raise in China an army of a million...to go to sleep across three wheelbarrows, with head downwards, like a spider, their mouths wide open and a fly inside.41 This passage vividly captures... | |
 | 1888 - 794 páginas
...most working people, and also in that of many others, position in sleep is of no sort of consequence. "It would be easy to raise in China an army of a million...competitive examination as to their capacity to go asleep across three wheelbarrows, head downwards like a spider, their mouths wide open, and a fly inside."... | |
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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... 