The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894J. Murray, 1896 - 409 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Afghan afterwards Altai Mountains appeared argali arrived ascended baggage British brought camels camp caravan China Chinaman Chinese Turkestan Chitral cold Colonel Bell Cossacks covered crossed cultivated distance encamped English European glacier GOBI DESERT gorge gradually grass Gurkhas halted Hami hard height Himalayas hour Hunchun hundred feet hundred yards Hunza Hurku Hills India inhabitants journey Kanjutis Karakoram Kashgar Kashmir Kirghiz Kwei-hwa-cheng land Liu-san look Manchuria Mehtar merchants miles mission missionary Mongolia Mongols morning mules Mustagh Pass native never night Ninguta officers Oprang Pamirs peaks Peking plain ponies rain reached ridge road round Russian sand seemed seen Shahidula Shimshal Pass side slope snow snowy started stream summit Sungari taels tent thousand feet Tian-shan told town trees Turfan Turk Turki twenty valley village wall whole wind Yarkand River yurts
Passagens conhecidas
Página 215 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them? Is not the love of these deep in my heart With a pure passion? should I not contemn All objects, if compared with these? and stem A tide of suffering, rather than forego Such feelings for the hard and worldly phlegm Of those whose eyes are only turn'd below, Gazing upon the ground, with thoughts which dare not glow?
Página 189 - 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.
Página 402 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Página viii - Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends ; Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home ; Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends, He had the passion and the power to roam ; The desert, forest, cavern, breaker's foam, Were unto him companionship; they spake A mutual language...
Página ii - Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield. Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like...
Página ii - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Página 239 - ... touching the cliffs on the right bank; but fortunately the river had kept a way for itself by continually washing away the end of the glacier, which terminated in a great wall of ice 150 to 200 feet high. This glacier runs down from the Gushirbrum in the distance towering up to a height of over 26,000 feet. The passage round the end of the glacier was not unattended with danger, for the stream was swift and strong, and on my own pony I had to reconnoitre very carefully for points where it was...
Página 396 - Mr. Benjamin Kidd, from the side of English sociology, assures us that " Since man became a social creature, the development of his intellectual character has become subordinate to the development of his religious character; " and concludes that religion affords the only permanent sanction for progress.
Página 28 - Like field-flowers everywhere ! we like them well : But children die ; and let me tell you, girl, Howe'er you babble, great deeds cannot die; They with the sun and moon renew their light For ever, blessing those that look on them.
Página 119 - As I proceeded westwards I noticed a gradual, scarcely perceptible, change from the round of a Mongolian type to a sharper and yet more sharp type of feature. ...As we get farther away from Mongolia, we notice that the faces become gradually longer and narrower; and farther west still, among some of the inhabitants of Afghan Turkestan, we see that the Tartar or Mongol type of feature is almost entirely lost...