The Quarterly Review, 163. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1886 |
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... river was closed by ice , and the only mode of obtaining news of events of vital importance to China passing in Europe was by means of an overland courier from Shanghai , the Chinese Government were taught the value of the telegraph by ...
... river was closed by ice , and the only mode of obtaining news of events of vital importance to China passing in Europe was by means of an overland courier from Shanghai , the Chinese Government were taught the value of the telegraph by ...
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... rivers or in repairing canals . Either can pursue his hobby with safety so long as no inundation comes over the territory of the first , or there is no attack on the second which he is unable to repel . The power given is so large and ...
... rivers or in repairing canals . Either can pursue his hobby with safety so long as no inundation comes over the territory of the first , or there is no attack on the second which he is unable to repel . The power given is so large and ...
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... River Valley , a region which the French were at the time in no hurry to occupy , and which they have not completely occupied yet , so that a collision was averted . Now , the telegraph will change all this . The various parts of the ...
... River Valley , a region which the French were at the time in no hurry to occupy , and which they have not completely occupied yet , so that a collision was averted . Now , the telegraph will change all this . The various parts of the ...
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... River . Then , when a decision could no longer be deferred , and when the whole Chinese nation cried out for some sign from its rulers , the Prince and Ministers rushed in a panic to the determination of presenting an ultimatum to the ...
... River . Then , when a decision could no longer be deferred , and when the whole Chinese nation cried out for some sign from its rulers , the Prince and Ministers rushed in a panic to the determination of presenting an ultimatum to the ...
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... River , which flows into the Irra- waddy about fifty miles below Bhamo ; on the other , the Govern- ment of India is understood to be willing to grant the Tapeng River , just above the Bhamo , as the boundary . In the case of ...
... River , which flows into the Irra- waddy about fifty miles below Bhamo ; on the other , the Govern- ment of India is understood to be willing to grant the Tapeng River , just above the Bhamo , as the boundary . In the case of ...
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