Episodes in a Life of Adventure: Or, Moss from a Rolling Stone

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Harper & brothers, 1887 - 343 עמודים
 

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עמוד 421 - Gilead,' &c. Post 8vo, 10s. 6d. " He has the gift, not common in this country, of the esprit Gaulois ; he aims his strokes at follies and abuses without any semblance of effort. His wit is at once keen and light-hearted Not only, however, are Mr Oliphant's stories new and delightful, but the turn of thought which they suggest, and which he follows up without, in the least riding it to death, is specially unexpected and humorous."— Saturday Review. TRASEADEN HALL. " WHEN GEORGE THE THIRD WAS KINO.
עמוד 129 - ... or woman since I came to the East heard a sentence which was reconcilable with the hypothesis that Christianity had ever come into the world. Detestation, contempt, ferocity, vengeance, whether Chinamen or Indians be the object. There are some three or four hundred servants in this house. When one first passes by their salaaming one feels a little awkward. But the feeling soon wears off, and one moves among .them with perfect indifference, treating them, not as dogs, because in that case one...
עמוד 87 - RUSSIAN SHORES OF THE BLACK SEA In the Autumn of 1852. With a Voyage down the Volga and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Esq.
עמוד 129 - Canning because the latter had removed some commissioners who, not content with hanging all the rebels they could lay their hands on, had been insulting them by destroying their caste, and thus interfering, in their belief, with their prospects in a future state of existence.
עמוד 129 - It is a terrible business, this living among inferior races. I have seldom from man or woman since I came to the East heard a sentence which was reconcilable with the hypothesis that Christianity had ever come into the world. Detestation, contempt, ferocity, vengeance, whether Chinamen or Indians be the object.

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