A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time: Arranged in Systematic Order, Geographical and Chronological. The Whole Exhibiting a Faithful and Lively Delineation of the World. Carefully Selected from Writers of Different Nations. In Four Volumes, 3. kötetMackenzie and Dent, 1818 |
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282. oldal
... calculated to amuse and inform the general reader . On the 3d of May , 1792 , lord Macartney was nominated ambassador from the king of Great Britain to the emperor of China . He was admitted , that same day , TRAVELS ...
... calculated to amuse and inform the general reader . On the 3d of May , 1792 , lord Macartney was nominated ambassador from the king of Great Britain to the emperor of China . He was admitted , that same day , TRAVELS ...
283. oldal
... emperor and his minister agreed , though not without hesitation , to receive the ambassadors and presents of a monarch so great and so remote . To approach Pekin , the northern capital of the Chinese empire , his lordship was -obliged ...
... emperor and his minister agreed , though not without hesitation , to receive the ambassadors and presents of a monarch so great and so remote . To approach Pekin , the northern capital of the Chinese empire , his lordship was -obliged ...
289. oldal
... emperor , and the baggage ; after which the British ships returned to Chu - san without the assistance of the Chinese pilots , whose skill in navigation was held very cheap , by the lowest seamen on board . ' On entering the Pei - ho we ...
... emperor , and the baggage ; after which the British ships returned to Chu - san without the assistance of the Chinese pilots , whose skill in navigation was held very cheap , by the lowest seamen on board . ' On entering the Pei - ho we ...
299. oldal
... emperor , closed this part of the procession . After these paraded the Tartar legate , and several officers from court , with their numerous attendants ; some on horse- back , some in chairs , and others on foot . Then followed the ...
... emperor , closed this part of the procession . After these paraded the Tartar legate , and several officers from court , with their numerous attendants ; some on horse- back , some in chairs , and others on foot . Then followed the ...
306. oldal
... emperor for the English ambassador to occupy this house , he immediately replied , " Most certainly , you cannot refuse the temporary occupation of a house to the ambassador of that nation which contributed so very amply towards the ...
... emperor for the English ambassador to occupy this house , he immediately replied , " Most certainly , you cannot refuse the temporary occupation of a house to the ambassador of that nation which contributed so very amply towards the ...
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199. oldal - Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
356. oldal - And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
92. oldal - With the assistance of one of the soldiers I have changed a large canoe into a tolerably good schooner, on board of which I this day hoisted the British flag, and shall set sail to the east with the fixed resolution to discover the termination of the Niger or perish in the attempt.
10. oldal - ... the northward, when I felt the heat of its current plainly upon my face. We all lay flat on the ground, as if dead, till Idris told us it was blown over. The meteor, or purple haze, which I saw, was indeed passed, but the light air that still blew was of heat to threaten suffocation.
92. oldal - Mr. Anderson and likewise Mr. Scott are both dead ; but though all the Europeans who are with me should die, and though I were myself half dead, I would still persevere ; and if I could not succeed in the object of my journey, I would at last die on the Niger.
56. oldal - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
10. oldal - I saw from the southeast a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of...
8. oldal - NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds.
171. oldal - Thou makest darkness, that it may be night ; wherein all the beasts of the forest do move.
307. oldal - Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.