The World Here and There: Or, Notes of TravellersCharles Dickens G. P. Putnam, 1852 - 231 oldal |
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7. oldal
... side canal . The space between the two lakes is of inconsiderable extent , and presents no great engineering difficulties . The elevation of the lake of Naragua above the Pacific is inconsiderable ; there is no hill range between it and ...
... side canal . The space between the two lakes is of inconsiderable extent , and presents no great engineering difficulties . The elevation of the lake of Naragua above the Pacific is inconsiderable ; there is no hill range between it and ...
8. oldal
... Sea and the Gulph of Gaza , in the Mediterranean , is the cause of merchandise circumnavigating the two longest sides of the triangular continent of Africa on its way to the 8 THE WORLd here anD THERE : OR , THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ,
... Sea and the Gulph of Gaza , in the Mediterranean , is the cause of merchandise circumnavigating the two longest sides of the triangular continent of Africa on its way to the 8 THE WORLd here anD THERE : OR , THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ,
15. oldal
... sides of the surrounding hills are thickly strewed with tents and temporary dwellings . On every side are buildings of all kinds , begun or half - finished , but the greater part of them mere canvas sheds , open in front , and ...
... sides of the surrounding hills are thickly strewed with tents and temporary dwellings . On every side are buildings of all kinds , begun or half - finished , but the greater part of them mere canvas sheds , open in front , and ...
21. oldal
... sides ; we have choice of the United States , Tortoni's , the Alhambra , and many other equally classic resorts , but Delmonico's , like its distinguished original in New York , has the highest prices and the greatest variety of dishes ...
... sides ; we have choice of the United States , Tortoni's , the Alhambra , and many other equally classic resorts , but Delmonico's , like its distinguished original in New York , has the highest prices and the greatest variety of dishes ...
29. oldal
... side by side , were dead upon the floor . The journal told how once the traces of a bear excited their hopes of fresh meat and amended health ; how , with a lantern , two or three had limped upon the track , until the light became ex ...
... side by side , were dead upon the floor . The journal told how once the traces of a bear excited their hopes of fresh meat and amended health ; how , with a lantern , two or three had limped upon the track , until the light became ex ...
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8. oldal - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which, indeed, all history points, the realization of the Unity of Mankind!
8. oldal - ... placed within the reach of everybody ; thought is communicated with the rapidity and even by the power of lightning.
18. oldal - ... technicalities of the Parisian cuisine. Then, vessels were coming in day after day, to lie deserted and useless at their anchorage. Now scarce a day passed, but some cluster of sails, bound outward through the Golden Gate, took their way to all the corners of the Pacific. Like the magic seed of the Indian juggler, which grew, blossomed and bore fruit before the eyes of his spectators, San Francisco seemed to have accomplished in a day the growth of half a century.
15. oldal - Malays armed with their everlasting creeses and others in whose embrowned and bearded visages it was impossible to recognize any especial nationality. We came at last into the plaza, now dignified by the name of Portsmouth Square. It lies on the slant side of the hill, and from a high pole in front of a long one-story adobe building used as the Custom House, the American flag was flying. On the lower side stood the Parker House — an ordinary frame house of about sixty feet front — and towards...
19. oldal - Pasquale was reputed to be among the millionaires of the place, with an income of $50,000 monthly. A citizen of San Francisco died insolvent to the amount of $41,000 the previous Autumn. His administrators were delayed in settling his affairs, and his real estate advanced so rapidly in value meantime, that after his debts were paid his heirs had a yearly income of $40,000.
22. oldal - steward !' from all parts of the room — the word ' waiter' is not considered sufficiently respectful, seeing that the waiter may have been a lawyer or a merchant's clerk a few months before.
208. oldal - Chan-Kiao ; that is to say, chief of the synagogue, who never approaches ;t but with the most profound respect. "There were thirteen tabernacles placed upon tables, each of which was surrounded by small curtains. The sacred Kim of Moses {the Pentateuch) was shut up in each of these tabernacles, twelve of which represented the Twelve Tribes of Israel ; and the thirteenth, Moses. The books were written on long pieces of parchment, and folded up on rollers. I obtained leave from the chief of the synagogue...
20. oldal - Walking through the town the next day, I was quite amazed to find a dozen persons busily employed in the street before the United States Hotel, digging up the earth with knives and crumbling it in their hands. They were actual gold-hunters, who obtained in this way about $5 a day.
15. oldal - On every side stood buildings of all kinds, begun or half-finished, and the greater part of them mere canvas sheds, open in front, and covered with all kinds of signs, in all languages. Great quantities of goods were piled up in the open air, for want of a place to store them. The streets were full of people, hurrying to and fro, and of as diverse and bizarre a character as the houses...
17. oldal - ... any path of ambition, into shapes which it never before imagined. As in the turn of the dissolving views, there is a period when it wears neither the old nor the new phase, but the vanishing images of the one and the growing perceptions of the other are blended in painful and misty confusion. One knows not whether he is awake or in some wonderful dream. Never have I had so much difficulty in establishing, satisfactorily to my own senses, the reality of what I saw and heard.