The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 248A. Constable, 1928 |
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Page 98
... planters , market - gardeners , and craftsmen of all kinds are Chinese or Chino - Siamese . Some idea of their devotion to industry may be had from a sight which the writer has many a time observed when returning home at midnight from ...
... planters , market - gardeners , and craftsmen of all kinds are Chinese or Chino - Siamese . Some idea of their devotion to industry may be had from a sight which the writer has many a time observed when returning home at midnight from ...
Page 100
... planting season which lasts for six months , but does little during the rest of the year . Among the upper class , in these latter years , the creation of a bureaucratic hierarchy has not tended to decrease their natural disinclination ...
... planting season which lasts for six months , but does little during the rest of the year . Among the upper class , in these latter years , the creation of a bureaucratic hierarchy has not tended to decrease their natural disinclination ...
Page 104
... planting . This is now entirely in the hands of the peasants . Near Bangkok and Ayudhya they are mostly tenants farming the land for Bangkok landlords , but beyond Ayudhya they are , as a rule , proprietors of their own padi - fields ...
... planting . This is now entirely in the hands of the peasants . Near Bangkok and Ayudhya they are mostly tenants farming the land for Bangkok landlords , but beyond Ayudhya they are , as a rule , proprietors of their own padi - fields ...
Page 153
... planting intact . This is by no means a simple undertaking . In modern time these two features have become widely separated . The whole width of what was once the Moslem Empire lies between the complete plan in the East and the planting ...
... planting intact . This is by no means a simple undertaking . In modern time these two features have become widely separated . The whole width of what was once the Moslem Empire lies between the complete plan in the East and the planting ...
Page 154
... planting remains almost untouched . As M. Fouquer points out in Des Divers Styles de Jardins , “ Espagne est actuellement le seul pays du monde ou l'on retrouve de nos jours des jardins du treizième siècle — tels qu'ils ont été créé ...
... planting remains almost untouched . As M. Fouquer points out in Des Divers Styles de Jardins , “ Espagne est actuellement le seul pays du monde ou l'on retrouve de nos jours des jardins du treizième siècle — tels qu'ils ont été créé ...
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