From Hong-Kong to the Himalayas: Or, Three Thousand Miles Through IndiaAmerican Tract Society, 1880 - 368 pages |
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... , where naught could be seen save the dis- tant and indented coast - line of the " Celestial Em- pire , " and curious Chinese boats with bamboo sails , rolling and pitching on the rough waves , through which The Island of Hong-Kong-- -PAGE.
... , where naught could be seen save the dis- tant and indented coast - line of the " Celestial Em- pire , " and curious Chinese boats with bamboo sails , rolling and pitching on the rough waves , through which The Island of Hong-Kong-- -PAGE.
Page 10
... seen by one approaching it from the sea , has been compared to an " overgrown Gibral- tar " but the peculiar type of architecture pre- sented by the buildings reminds one rather of the " TO FROM HONG - KONG TO THE HIMALAYAS .
... seen by one approaching it from the sea , has been compared to an " overgrown Gibral- tar " but the peculiar type of architecture pre- sented by the buildings reminds one rather of the " TO FROM HONG - KONG TO THE HIMALAYAS .
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... seen with shaven heads and miniature " pigtails , " the ends of which were fastened to an upright stick , giving them just enough tether to kick and splash without falling into the river . When the boys occasionally tumble overboard ...
... seen with shaven heads and miniature " pigtails , " the ends of which were fastened to an upright stick , giving them just enough tether to kick and splash without falling into the river . When the boys occasionally tumble overboard ...
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... seen above but a strip of sky between the projecting eaves of the houses ; and even this opening is not unfrequently covered with boards or matting . Canton impresses one from the first as a vast and populous city ; and , indeed , it ...
... seen above but a strip of sky between the projecting eaves of the houses ; and even this opening is not unfrequently covered with boards or matting . Canton impresses one from the first as a vast and populous city ; and , indeed , it ...
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... seen by the traveller in the neighboring coun- try of Japan , that no amount of experience in the latter country , or familiarity with its customs and city life , could prepare his mind for the strange scenes and peculiar phases of ...
... seen by the traveller in the neighboring coun- try of Japan , that no amount of experience in the latter country , or familiarity with its customs and city life , could prepare his mind for the strange scenes and peculiar phases of ...
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Aden Agra Allahabad altar ancient appeared Arabian Sea arches Arungzebe Bay of Bengal beasts beautiful Benares boat body Bombay British Buddhism buildings Calcutta Canton carriage carried carved Cawnpore China Chinese Christian coolies dark Dehra Delhi distance dome East elephant enclosure English flat foreign friends front Ganges ground hall head heat hills Himalayas Hindoo Hong-Kong hundred idol immense India island Japan Jumna Kali Laltiba Landour leaving lofty looked magnificence miles minarets missionary Mogul Mogul Empire Mohammedan morning mosques mountain Mussoorie native nearly night once palaces Parsees passed peaks Penang plains priests punkahs range reached religious residences river sacred sailed Sarnath scarcely seemed seen Sepoys ship shrine side Singapore stands steamer stone streets surrounded temple tion tomb took tower traveller trees usually visited walls white marble whole wild worship
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Page 326 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 275 - I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Page 275 - He will not suffer thy foot to be moved : he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The LORD is thy keeper : the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
Page 143 - It is my firm belief that if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence.
Page 252 - The throne itself was six feet " long by four foot broad ; it stood on six massive feet, " which with the body, were of solid gold, inlaid with " rubies, emeralds and diamonds. It was surmounted " by a canopy of gold supported by twelve pillars, " all richly emblazoned with costly gems, and " a fringe of pearls ornamented the borders of the " canopy. Between the two peacocks stood the figure " of a parrot of the ordinary size, paid to have been " carved out of a single emerald...
Page 225 - It has, in fact, nothing which can properly be termed ornament. It is a sanctuary so pure and stainless, revealing so exalted a spirit of worship, that I felt humbled, as a Christian, to think that our nobler religion has so rarely inspired its architects to surpass this temple to God and Mohammed.
Page 194 - The blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin.
Page 251 - ' so called from its having the figures of two peacocks standing behind it, their tails being expanded, and the whole so inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emeralds, pearls, and other precious stones of appropriate colours as to represent life.
Page 313 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 213 - Fresh orders were therefore sent to murder them also; but the survivors, not being able to bear the idea of being cut down, rushed out into the compound, and, seeing a well there, threw themselves into it without hesitation, thus putting a period to lives which it was impossible for them to save.