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... turn into a pathway which will lead us into the hill . A short distance up we reach a small bridge built across a catchwater drain . These drains are cut across the face of the hills to carry the torrents which fall in the wet season ...
... turn into a pathway which will lead us into the hill . A short distance up we reach a small bridge built across a catchwater drain . These drains are cut across the face of the hills to carry the torrents which fall in the wet season ...
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... turn all the dust into mud ; black mud , rich mud , and we are worse off than ever . Notwithstanding this , the climate is delightful now . The scenery round about Yokohama is magnificent . I have never seen anything worthy to be ...
... turn all the dust into mud ; black mud , rich mud , and we are worse off than ever . Notwithstanding this , the climate is delightful now . The scenery round about Yokohama is magnificent . I have never seen anything worthy to be ...
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... turn round to the left and look down upon the Town . There are very few commercial cities in the world wherein are build- ings so uniformly handsome as in this city of Victoria , Hongkong . There is the Clock Tower placed right in the ...
... turn round to the left and look down upon the Town . There are very few commercial cities in the world wherein are build- ings so uniformly handsome as in this city of Victoria , Hongkong . There is the Clock Tower placed right in the ...
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... turn in the road brought into full view , from whose surface arose a volume of vapour resembling that which escapes from the top of a vessel of water when in a free state of ebullition . " This , " he said , " is a hot stream Rio ...
... turn in the road brought into full view , from whose surface arose a volume of vapour resembling that which escapes from the top of a vessel of water when in a free state of ebullition . " This , " he said , " is a hot stream Rio ...
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... in curing Munto of his penchant for poultry . Monkeys have a great horror of a Malay delicacy called Ballachong , and indeed , the dislike is not confined to Monkeys ; many a time we have had to turn round in THE CHINA MAGAZINE . 41.
... in curing Munto of his penchant for poultry . Monkeys have a great horror of a Malay delicacy called Ballachong , and indeed , the dislike is not confined to Monkeys ; many a time we have had to turn round in THE CHINA MAGAZINE . 41.
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Page 56 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles : And every sense and every heart is joy.
Page 130 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen' the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Page 130 - The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder - everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Page 114 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among -the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs; Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
Page 31 - Lu asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master said, 'While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits?' Chi Lu added, 'I venture to ask about death?
Page 56 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year ; And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks, And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales. Thy bounty shines in autumn unconfined, And spreads a common feast for all that lives.
Page 32 - For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom! —We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
Page 86 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 124 - But any man that walks the mead, In bud or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humours lead, A meaning suited to his mind. And liberal applications lie In Art like Nature, dearest friend ; So 'twere to cramp its use, if I Should hook it to some useful end.
Page 32 - O Friend! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our Life is only drest For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom!— We must run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us.