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...he shield of leaves dropped away briefly and Morris saw that the wagon was moving along on a road about 400 feet above a town with narrow streets and Chinese-style pagoda roofs. Some of the buildings were demolished and others were in flame. “That is Sam Neua, the actual town,” the third passenger informed. “Where was the camp then?” “Place called Xanthon. Just a few mi...

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...s 172 Farmer's festival calendar 172 * Modern annual festivals 173 * Chinese New Year 175 Songkran 176 New Year of Thai culture 176 * Prog... ...n. Near the close of the rainy season thirty years ago, I stepped out of a Chinese hotel in Sob Tui, near Lampang station, and crossed the road to the... ...ed by white flags or pennants both in Thailand and in Finland, why Lampang Chinese and Orthodox Karelians hang pennants on the graves of their loved o... ...rs in our village also grow for sale. Of vegetables, I now grow bakhardon (Chinese leaves), garlic and onions for sale. Bakhardon is very profitable. ... ...e from abroad. It's expensive, as it comes all the way from Canada. We are Chinese and we have taken out a lot of debt. My father set up this factory ... ...s and chains of densely built villages with their palm trees, temples and pagodas, stupas. Here, the open vista does not extend to the horizon, but ... ...ead verses of the offering rite over the food tray. After leaving the sand pagoda, people lit a taper on the 'candle altar' located in the compound in...

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... Pharaohs built their pyramids as signs of their presumed immortality; the Chinese emperors brought their armies of terracotta soldiers to the grave ... ... reality on one side, from the ultimate reality that is represented by the pagoda found in the middle of a lake where a Buddhist monk lives. The mo... ...out even realizing he is doing it. One day a woman comes to the monk’s pagoda with her adolescent daughter in tow, who speaks to no one and is c... ...e woman goes out and walks away, but there is a hole in the ice around the pagoda and the woman falls in and dies. The young monk, who has alread...

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...ind how people always left his life. He thought about what he "knew" of this Chinese friend, Yang Lin, if he knew anything at all: he was adopted and ... ...ll he had to do was put his eyes on someone at a bar called "Trance," around Pagoda Park, or at the movie theatre behind it and off they went to his h... ... he arrived at the express bus terminal, he took the subway to Chongno. Near Pagoda Park, he went to Hardee's . The break from Hanguk food (particular... ...of the many miscellaneous parables in the thickets of pages that comprised a Chinese literature anthology; however, she had never radiated the enlight... ...texture he sought in saunas and the bathroom of the dirty movie theatre near Pagoda Park in Chongno Sam Ga. Clean of words, no hurt would ensue. The d... ... really. Stretching and thinking my weird thoughts. Yeah, I went through a Chinese fast food drive-thru, thanks. What about you? Huh? You are break...

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..., its bazaars, mosques, synagogues, its Ar- menian churches, and the noble pagoda on Malabar Hill, with its two polygonal towers—he cared not a straw ... ...rning his steps towards the station, when he happened to espy the splendid pagoda on Malabar Hill, and was seized with an irresistible desire to see i... ...s fists and a vigor- ous application of his toes; then, rushing out of the pagoda as fast as his legs could carry him, he soon escaped the third pries... ...risk of having some difficulty about this worthy fellow’s adventure at the pagoda.” Passepartout, his feet comfortably wrapped in his travelling-blank... ... of Hong Kong, which is wholly an English city, though on an island on the Chinese coast. At half-past twelve the train stopped at Benares. The Brah- ... ...e Rangoon—one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas— was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing abo... ...es from the island of Hong Kong, which is a little English colony near the Chinese coast. Phileas Fogg hoped to accomplish the journey in six days, so... ... on the opposite coast. Hong Kong has beaten Macao in the struggle for the Chinese trade, and now the greater part of the transportation of Chinese go... ...83 Jules Verne palanquins and other modes of conveyance, and the groups of Chinese, Japanese, and Europeans who passed to and fro in the streets. Hong...

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...ck which ex- tended from the salon towards the river, ending in a horrible Chinese pagoda. “Good! by building a roof to that greenhouse and laying a f... ... ex- tended from the salon towards the river, ending in a horrible Chinese pagoda. “Good! by building a roof to that greenhouse and laying a floor,” s... ...ligion. The doctor, sitting at the moment on a bench outside the Chi- nese pagoda, felt the pressure of the abbe’s hand on his. “Yes, abbe, every time... ...GODFATHER were sitting at dessert in the pretty dining-room decorated with Chinese designs in black and gold lacquer (the folly of Levrault-Levrault) ... ... and then, if she was in the way, her godfather would let her know it. The Chinese pa- 84 Ursula goda which the doctor made his study had outside bli... ...said, “Go! go!” Ursula went down the steps of the portico which led to the pagoda at the foot of the garden. She stood for some min- utes slowly arran... ..., but as they turned she heard the doctor make an answer which reached the pagoda where she was. “My heirs would be delighted to see me invest my prop... ...both sat down on a bench under the arch of climbing plants opposite to the Chinese pagoda. Ursula awaited the old man’s words, and the old man reflect... ...noret came home late from Rouvre. About nine o’clock he was sitting in the Chinese pagoda digesting his dinner be- side his wife, with whom he was mak...

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...d with colored tiles in the middle, and over the wall the gilded roof of a pagoda, like an umbrella, only all in ridge and furrow, and with a little b... ...y: “but I was waiting for sugar and milk.” “That would spoil it,” said the Chinese damsel; “only outer barbarians would think of such a thing. And, ah... ...n silver filigree cups into which they exactly fitted. Lucy remembered her Chinese experience, and did not venture to ask for milk or sugar, but she f... ...s a little lady girl. I hope they are not all as lazy and conceited as the Chinese and the T urk.” So Lucy awoke in a large, cool room with a marble f... ...artans stood on a barrel in the middle, making his bagpipes squeal away; a Chinese with a bald head and long pigtail beat a gong, and capered with a s...

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...ghting her with weapons; she should have imitated China which, in the end, Chinesed the T artars, and will, it is to be hoped, Chinese the English. Po... ...at the lower end by a clump of exotic trees, in the midst of which stood a Chinese pagoda with soundless bel- fries and motionless golden eggs. The gr... ...ower end by a clump of exotic trees, in the midst of which stood a Chinese pagoda with soundless bel- fries and motionless golden eggs. The greenhouse... ... to be a place for repose; one scarce knows where to sit down among carved Chinese work-tables with their myriads of fantastic figures inlaid in ivory... ... and tell her this result of the consultation. He found her sitting in the Chinese pa- vilion, as much for a little rest as to leave the field to the ...

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... His Excellency Tseng lodged with me here for three weeks.” He mouthed the Chinese Excellency at me with great unc- tion, though the specimen of the “... ...thorities of the State were piously busy gilding afresh the great Buddhist Pagoda just then, and I suppose had no money to spare for dredging operatio... ...sinuosities of the river you had left, traced in dull green, and the Great Pagoda uprising lonely and massive with shining curves and pinnacles like t... ... before us, and felt the fresh breath of the river—fresh, but tainted. The Chinese theatres across the water made, in the sparsely twinkling masses of... ...have had my ship very awkwardly ashore at a spot two miles below the Great Pagoda… . And with all that he had no ill-will. That was evident. This was ...

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..., it turned out, was de- voted to men travelling alone, and the third to the Chinese. The official was easily moved to anger at the least delay; but t... ...w many baggage-waggons followed the engine, certainly a score; then came the Chinese, then we, then the families, and the rear was brought up by the c... ...w but wayside stations in the desert; how in these uncouth places pig-tailed Chinese pi- rates worked side by side with border ruffians and broken men... ...ike business of the emigrant train. But one thing I must say, the car of the Chinese was notably the least offensive. The cars on the Central Pacific ... ...LINGS, the sentiment of my fellow Cau- casians towards our companions in the Chinese car was the most stupid and the worst. They seemed never to have ... ...ver all; and the man in the next car to me would conjure up some junks and a pagoda and a fort of porcelain, and call it, with the same affection, hom...

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...s to their Church by it, it may well be admired how they came to admit the Chinese Confucius into the calendar of the Christian saints. A ship being r... ...d some arrack; the first a commod- ity which bears a great price among the Chinese, and which at that time was much wanted there. Then we went up to S... ...ges nor those in the boats could do as they were ordered before the Cochin Chinese were upon them, when two of their boats boarded 167 Daniel Defoe o... ...ng that I should meet with customers enough for the ship at Nankin, that a Chinese junk would serve me very well to go back again, and that he would p... ... creek or harbour which I might put into and pursue my busi- ness with the Chinese privately, and be in no danger of the enemy. He told me if I would ... ..., and monstrous images. Not a town or city we passed through but had their pagodas, their idols, and their temples, and ignorant people worshipping ev...

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...hat if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. The causes ... ...the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A young Chinese seems to me an antediluvian man renewed. Even Englishmen, though no... ...nned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by parroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas, and was fixed for centuries at the summit or in secret rooms: I wa... ...st in my dreams) for centu- ries. I escaped sometimes, and found myself in Chinese houses, with cane tables, &c. All the feet of the tables, sofas, &c...

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...t delightful chinoiseries—trophies of his sojourn in the Celestial Empire: pagodas of ebony and cabinets of ivory; sculptured monsters, grinning and l... ... clean as a well-kept dairy. Lizzie Acton told her that she dusted all the pagodas and other curiosities every day with her own hands; and the Barones... ...I use the word “released” advisedly; for in spite of his attachment to his Chinese comrade he had been but a half-hearted visitor. He felt as if he ha...

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... master.” It was said that he had a retain- ing fee from a wealthy firm of Chinese steamship owners, in view of such services. Besides, he was always ... ...teamed up the innumerable bends, passed under the shadow of the great gilt pagoda, and reached the outskirts of the town. There it was, spread largely... ...im all his time to watch incessantly the loading of the ship by a rascally Chinese stevedore. In this Mr. Burns gave me the first glimpse of the real ...

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... was again dreaming of the fairy child, a dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea. For years the fairy child had come to him. Where o... ...shroom Roman Imperial, the lounge Spanish Mission, and the reading-room in Chinese Chippendale, but the gem of the club was the dining-room, the maste... ...a compound and don’t have to do any work, and you get to see the world and pagodas and the ocean and everything! And then I could take up cor- respond... ... shade of yellow or rose silk.) On the table was a runner of gold-threaded Chinese fab- 82 Babbitt ric, four magazines, a silver box containing cigar... ...Men’s Club of the Chatham Road presbyterian Church with Irish, Jewish, and Chinese dia- lect stories. But in nothing was he more clearly revealed as t... ... globes and scarlet jazz music in a cheap up- stairs dance-hall; lights of Chinese restaurants, lanterns painted with cherry-blossoms and with pagodas... ...hts of Chinese restaurants, lanterns painted with cherry-blossoms and with pagodas, hung against lattices of lustrous gold and black. Small dirty lamp... ...Babbitts and Rieslings went festively to the movies and had chop suey at a Chinese restaurant. As they walked to the restaurant through a street of ta...

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... walls and crumpled heaps, amidst which were thick heaps of very beautiful pagoda-like plants—nettles possibly— but wonderfully tinted with brown abou... ... well as the pale-green tint, a kind of bluish-green, of a certain type of Chinese porcelain. This difference in aspect suggested a difference in use,...

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...height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeep- ers, must write on their door-lintels No cheating here,— ... ...n cloaks and wampum belts; phy- lacteries, stoles, albs; chlamydes, togas, Chinese silks, Afghaun shawls, trunk-hose, leather breeches, Celtic hilibeg... ... ing those of Constantinople and Samarcand: in most Col- leges, except the Chinese Mandarin ones, I have studied, or seen that there was no studying. ... ..., therefore, of Pope Pius, Emperor Tarakwang, and the “White Water-roses” (Chinese Carbonari) with their mysteries, no notice here! Of Napo- leon hims... ...have free course when they are empty. Even as, for Hindoo Worshippers, the Pagoda is not less sacred than the God; so do I too worship the hollow clot...

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... with a coarse swing of voice and manner anything but agreeable to his feelings, I should conceive, considered in the light of a portrait, and as far ... ...ought I, as I walked up the hill, on which I accidentally encountered my official friend—under these circumstances of the men having suc- cessfully op... ...en having suc- cessfully opposed themselves to the Pagoda Department of that great Circumlocution Office on which the sun never sets and the light of ... ...pon his legs, walks up and down, encouraging her and defying the Universe. But, the family I have been best ac- quainted with, since the removal from ... ...ng times. Fleet of foot, but a careworn class of tramp this, mostly; with a certain stiffness of neck, occasioned by much anxious balancing of baskets... ...water where timber is steeped in various temperatures, as a part of its seasoning process. Above it, on a tramroad supported by The Uncommercial Trav... ... sufficiently steeped, and rolls smoothly away with them to stack them. When I was a child (the Yard being then familiar to me) I used to think that I...

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... pound it so. China sailor. Rattle thy teeth, then, and pound away; make a pagoda of thyself. French sailor. Merry mad! Hold up thy hoop, Pip, till I ... ...with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel like lips. A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black tro... ... anyways purporting to be the whale’s, is to be found in the famous cavern pagoda of Elephanta, in India. The Brahmins maintain that in the almost end... ...Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every conceivable avocation of man, we... ... same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that is, from a Chinese drawing. And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chinese... ...se comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian’s Pandects and the By laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People’s Busines... ...ht whale bone, and cross beams of sperm whale ivory, the carpenter makes a pagoda looking cage for it. An oarsman sprains his wrist: the carpenter con... ...partial seas; where to traditions no rocks furnish tablets; where for long Chinese ages, the billows have still rolled on speechless and unspoken to, ...

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..., as to reading them after I had got them, I might as well have copied the Chinese inscriptions of an immense collection of tea-chests, or the golden ... ...d in that art; but it looked like a net; and as she worked away with those Chinese chopsticks of knitting- needles, she showed in the firelight like a... ...tion; for, when we go to see a kitchen fender and meat-screen, Dora sees a Chinese house for Jip, with little bells on the top, and prefers that. And ... ... quite at home on its heels in a corner; and everybody tumbling over Jip s pagoda, which is much too big for the es- tablishment. Another happy evenin... ...pect it may have been because nothing had a place of its own, except Jip s pagoda, which in- variably blocked up the main thoroughfare. On David Copp... ...field Vol. II 258 the present occasion, Traddles was so hemmed in by the pagoda and the guitar-case, and Dora s flower-painting, and my writing-tabl... .... She was soon my child-wife indeed; sitting down on the floor outside the Chinese House, ringing all the little bells one after an- other, to punish ... ... to drive my seriousness away; but, not succeed- ing, ordered him into his Pagoda, and sat look- ing at me, with her hands folded, and a most resigned... ...d I give her the message. She disap- pears, leaving me alone with Jip. His Chinese house is by the fire; and he lies within it, on his bed of flannel,...

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...tific construction that filled my mind. He could as easily have understood Chinese poetry. His motives were made up of intense rivalries with other me... ...e-edged, white cyclamens in flower. And there was a big lacquer cabinet, a Chinese thing, I suppose, of black and gold against the red-toned wall. To ... ...old fishermen on the cabinet fish- ing from little islands that each had a pagoda and a tree, and there were also men in boats or something, I couldn’... ... inspired by a passionate desire to substitute manacled but still criminal Chinese for honest British labourers throughout the world. And when it came... ...d, “ has been the end and the begin- ning of much. New ideas are abroad—” “Chinese labour,” yelled a voice, and across the square swept a wildfire of ... ...to a more popular strain with a gross eulogy of my opponent’s good taste. “Chinese labour!” cried the voice again. “You’ve given that notice to quit,”... ...snow on the grass, and we noted that only two other people had been to the Pagoda that day. I’ve a curious impression of greenish colour, hot, moist a...

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... pound it so. China sailor. Rattle thy teeth, then, and pound away; make a pagoda of thyself. French sailor. Merry-mad! Hold up thy hoop, Pip, till I ... ...with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips. A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally in- vested him, with wide black t... ...nyways purporting to be the whale’s, is to be found in the famous cav- ern-pagoda of Elephanta, in India. The Brahmins maintain that in the almost end... ...Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every conceivable avocation of man, we... ...same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that is, from a Chinese draw- ing. And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chine... ...and cross-beams of sperm whale 446 Moby Dick ivory, the carpenter makes a pagoda-looking cage for it. An oarsman sprains his wrist: the carpenter con... ...partial seas; where to traditions no rocks furnish tablets; where for long Chinese ages, the billows have still rolled on speechless and unspoken to, ...

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...e. From the willow walk projected a slight wooden pier ending in a sort of pagoda-like summer-house; and in the pagoda a lady stood, leaning against t... ...s open, so that they’re never again in the blessed darkness. Isn’t there a Chinese torture like that? There ought to be. Ah, believe me, it’s a misera...

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...syndicalism, the Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing ... ...could be depended upon to appreciate the Caruso phonograph record, and the Chinese lantern which Mr. Marbury had brought back as his present from San ... ...re shy. It was “Professor” George Edwin Mott, superintendent of schools, a Chinese manda- rin turned brown, who held Carol’s hand and made her welcome... ...een trees in the val- leys of Nowhere. “These,” Carol announced, “are real Chinese masquer- ade costumes. I got them from an importing shop in Min- ne... ...languid peacock fan in an out-stretched hand; eyes uplifted to a vision of pagoda towers. When she dropped her pose and smiled down she discovered Ken... ...two men. She shook off the spell and ran down. “We’re going to have a real Chinese concert. Messrs. Pollock, Kennicott, and, well, Stowbody are drumme...

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..., this book is not written for honour and glory, and the few who will read it may not know the difference. Very little time. I go down with the mail s... ...yself, and spoil the book, if there were anything to spoil, which I am far from saying. I’m as sick of the thing as ever any one can be; it’s a rud- d...

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...Charles on his couch, one Monday evening, in a gorgeous dressing-gown of a Chinese pattern, all over pagodas, while little Charlotte sat opposite to h... ...Monday evening, in a gorgeous dressing-gown of a Chinese pattern, all over pagodas, while little Charlotte sat opposite to him, curled up on a footsto... ...les, who ever since October had been confined to bed, was able to wear the Chinese dressing-gown, be lifted to a couch, and wheeled into the dressing-...

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...his way and that, may mean I can’t get a notion. And what’s the writing?” “Chinese,” said the man with the map. “Of course! He was a Chinee,” said Eva... ...dy. It lay in a clear space among the trees. Near by was a spade after the Chinese pattern, and further off lay a scattered heap of stones, close to a... ...ss brilliance the wide and populous country; towns and villages with their pagodas and trees, roads, wide cultivated fields, millions of sleepless peo...

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... find us a house. A few trees round it, and a little garden, a pond with a Chinese duck, a study for your father, a study for me, and a sitting room f... ...n building one of those piles of thought, as ramshackle and fantastic as a Chinese pagoda, half from words let fall by gentlemen in gaiters, half from... ...ng one of those piles of thought, as ramshackle and fantastic as a Chinese pagoda, half from words let fall by gentlemen in gaiters, half from the lit... ...s. Prints of great-uncles, famed for their prowess in the East, hung above Chinese teapots, whose sides were riveted by little gold stitches, and the ...

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... City, sir, and we saw the Temple of Concord, and the fire- works, and the Chinese bridge in St. James’s Park, could any sensible man suppose that pea... ...in pink. He was riding on an elephant away from some cocoa-nut trees and a pagoda: it was an Eastern scene. “God bless my soul, it is my portrait,” Jo...

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... three houses on the hill-top, one of which, being constructed on supposed Chinese principles of architecture, was known to its friends as “the Pagoda... ...posed Chinese principles of architecture, was known to its friends as “the Pagoda,” to its foes as “the Folly.” It had been long untenanted, but this ... ... which stretched over the 52 Magnum Bonum railings of the low wall of the pagoda garden. “O you appro- priate bird,—you surely ought not to be here!”... ...ts shaded border opened into the lane about ten yards from the gate of the Pagoda, as Colonel and Mrs. Brownlow and the post office laboured to call i... ...s in vain; Babie had her way; and they mounted to the highest stage of the pagoda, where the eaves and the twisted monsters that supported them were i... ... a title which became more and more applicable, in Kenminster eyes, to the Pagoda, and above all in those of its proper owner. Mrs. Robert Brownlow, i... ...lly well without disputes. There was a continual performance, endless as a Chinese tragedy, of Spenser’s Faery Queene, in which Elfie was always Glori... ...ou can’t shake more out of me. You might as well expect anything from that Chinese lantern. Hold hard. ’Tis not I—” “Don’t speak! You don’t know her! ...

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...les. Now for the Piquant Expressions. “PIQUANT EXPRESSIONS. ‘The Venerable Chinese novel Ju-Kiao-Li.’ Good! By introducing these few words with dexter... ... evince your intimate acquaintance with the language and literature of the Chinese. With the aid of this you may either get along without either Arabi... ...nd in the commencement of the third volume of that admirable and venerable Chinese novel the Jo-Go-Slow. In my solitary walk through, the city I had t... ... V olumes understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more ... ...lding what, in the ancient Amriccan, was denominated “churches” —a kind of pagoda instituted for the worship of two idols that went by the names of We... ... us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it; or a Down- East or Dutch Pagoda, or a pig-sty, or an ingenious little bit of fancy work, either Esqu...

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...ty of Alexander’s people, Moscow with its innumerable churches shaped like Chinese pagodas.” “Well?” asked Napoleon. “One of Platov’s Cossacks says th... ...exander’s people, Moscow with its innumerable churches shaped like Chinese pagodas.” “Well?” asked Napoleon. “One of Platov’s Cossacks says that Plato... ... it is the highest class, respected by everyone. All the kings, except the Chinese, wear military uniforms, and he who kills most people receives the ...

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...a height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeepers, must write on their door lintels No cheating here,—w... ...pskin cloaks and wampum belts; phylacteries, stoles, albs; chlamydes, togas, Chinese silks, Afghaun shawls, trunk hose, leather breeches, Celtic hilib... ...luding those of Con stantinople and Samarcand: in most Colleges, except the Chinese Mandarin ones, I have studied, or seen that there was no studying... ...y have free course when they are empty. Even as, for Hindoo Worshippers, the Pagoda is not less sacred than the God; so do I too worship the hollow cl...

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...ronicle of the Book of Chinn by heart. It lies in a worn old ledger on the Chinese lacquer table behind the piano in the Devonshire home, and the chil... ...nd when Mr. Wardrop saw the dismal little harbour, with its ragged line of Chinese junks, its one crazy tug, and the boat-building shed that, under th... ...y knows the use o’ copper. They ought to have cut away the pipes. And with Chinese junks coming here, too. It’s a special interposition o’ Providence.... ...ooked out with moist eyes and nostrils that dilated joyously. The South of pagodas and palm-trees, the overpopu- lated Hindu South, was done with. Her...

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...e to him whom it fits. I would fain say something, not so much concerning the Chinese and Sand wich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are sai... ...lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has bee... ...ok to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of m... ...s out the Esquimaux and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous Indian and Chinese villages; and thus, by a few years of philanthropic activity, the... ... pine, a shingle tree, or a more perfect hemlock than usual, standing like a pagoda in the midst of the woods; and many others I could mention. These ...

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... viva cious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is not yet out. The Chinese are bribed to carry their ova from province to province in jars or ... ...gh it happens that I am better ac quainted with those of the Hindoos, the Chinese, and the Persians, than of the Hebrews, which I have come to last. ... ...ies, let him not look thither as to his goal. One is sick at heart of this pagoda worship. It is like the beating of gongs in a Hindoo subterra nean ... ...ughtless study, or the idle read, the litera ture of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German criticism. Read the... ...ays a French translator, speak ing of the antiquity and durability of the Chinese and Indian nations, and of the wisdom of their legislators, “there ... ... the col lected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Persians, the Hebrews, and others, as the Scriptu...

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...ved a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been ... ... to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my ... ... out the Esquimau and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous Indian and Chinese villages; and thus, by a few years of philan thropic activity, the... ...ine, a shingle tree, or a more perfect hemlock than usual, standing like a pagoda in the midst of the woods; and many others I could mention. These we...

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...eserves the sem- blance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt. The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent. The Indian and Egyptian temples st... ...the sem- blance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt. The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent. The Indian and Egyptian temples still betr... ...iscov- ery of the law that water rises to the level of its source. It is a Chinese wall which any nimble Tartar can leap over. It is a standing army, ... ...circumstance gives a value to the Egyp- tian hieroglyphics, to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols, however gross and shapeless. They denote the hei... ...erns by love; and the metaphor of each has become a national religion. The Chinese Mencius has not been the least successful in his generalization. “I... ... since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world. “The virtuous pri...

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... lay an expanse of countenance grotesque and droll, as the faces which the Chinese alone of all people can imag- ine for their quaint curiosities. The... ...inate.” Mother and daughter looked at one another as if Pons were speaking Chinese. No one can imagine how ignorant and exclusive Parisians are; they ... ...ian, nor Rembrandt, nor Van Eyck, nor Cranach … . Well, now! there are the Chinese; they are very ingenious, very clever; they make modern copies of t... ...is cattle, who receives the gift of vision; some Hindoo fakir, seated by a pagoda, mortifying the flesh till the spirit gains the mysterious power of ...

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...ur—it was the mere play of her joy. “I think he could make you like him in Chinese.” “It would be an unnecessary trouble. What I mean is that he’s a k... ...f queer light shades and of strange straw like textures, of the aspect of Chinese mats, provocative of wonder at his sources of supply, suggested the... ...iseries; but she actually this evening did n’t mind—he might deal with her Chinese as he could. Maggie indeed would always have had for such moments, ... ... tower of ivory, or perhaps rather some wonderful beautiful but outlandish pagoda, a structure plated with hard bright porcelain, coloured and figured ... ...elief from the idea of having perhaps to answer for what she had done. The pagoda in her blooming garden figured the arrangement—how otherwise was it t...

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...h an air of restrained animation as he stood sip- ping tea from a delicate Chinese handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were l... ... of Alexander’s people, Moscow with its in- numerable churches shaped like Chinese pagodas.” “Well?” asked Napoleon. “One of Platov’s Cossacks says th... ...ander’s people, Moscow with its in- numerable churches shaped like Chinese pagodas.” “Well?” asked Napoleon. “One of Platov’s Cossacks says that Plato... ...t is the highest class, re- spected by everyone. All the kings, except the Chinese, wear military uniforms, and he who kills most people receives the ...