The Quarterly Review, Volume 102William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1857 |
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Page 150
... Fortune , who is equally expert in the use of both , decides in favour of the sticks . With dishes prepared in the Chinese fashion it would be almost impossible to pierce the dainty morsels with a fork , whereas the smallest fragment ...
... Fortune , who is equally expert in the use of both , decides in favour of the sticks . With dishes prepared in the Chinese fashion it would be almost impossible to pierce the dainty morsels with a fork , whereas the smallest fragment ...
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... Fortune are full of interesting details on the botanical productions of China . The mow - chok , the most beauti- ful bamboo in the world , is peculiar to this country . It attains to its full height of from sixty to eighty feet in a ...
... Fortune are full of interesting details on the botanical productions of China . The mow - chok , the most beauti- ful bamboo in the world , is peculiar to this country . It attains to its full height of from sixty to eighty feet in a ...
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... Fortune states , can dine in a sumptuous manner upon his rice , fish , vegetables , and What little meat they get is chiefly pork . Of fish they are extremely fond , and some of their methods of catching them are peculiar . All the ...
... Fortune states , can dine in a sumptuous manner upon his rice , fish , vegetables , and What little meat they get is chiefly pork . Of fish they are extremely fond , and some of their methods of catching them are peculiar . All the ...
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History of the Irish PoorLaw in connexion with | 59 |
British Tea Plantations in the Himalaya with a Nar | 126 |
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