...aesthetic tastes. They delighted to contrast what they were then pleased to term "oriental civilization" with their own. Our very backwardness in the mechanical...was familiar. Now all this is changed; the modern traveler is in nine cases out of ten a railroad speculator, or a mining engineer, or a financial promoter,...

...home delighted with the picturesqueness and the indolence of the East. Its bazaars, its costumes, hs primitive old-world cachet, invested it in their eyes...was familiar. Now all this is changed : the modern traveler is in nine cases out of ten a railroad speculator, or a mining engineer, or a financial promoter,...

...aesthetic tastes. They delighted to contrast what they were then pleased to term ' oriental civilization ' with their own. Our very backwardness in the mechanical...or a mining engineer, or a financial promoter, or a concessionhunter, or perchance a would-be member of Parliament like yourself, coming to see how pecuniary...

...picturesqueness and the indolence of the East. Its bazaars, its costumes, its primitive old - world cachet, invested it in their eyes with an indescribable...Western reader with pictures of our manners and customs, becansc they were so different from those with which he was familiar. Now all this is changed ; the...

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