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" PERSONALITY. THE boyish belief that on the other side of our globe all things are of necessity upside down is startlingly brought back to the man when he first sets foot at Yokohama. If his initial glance does not, to be sure, disclose the natives in... "
The Soul of the Far East - Page 1
by Percival Lowell - 1888 - 226 pages
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Topsy-turvy 1585: A Translation and Explication of Luis Frois S.J.'s Tratado ...

Robin D. Gill - Social Science - 2004 - 740 pages
...pages! Whether it be that their antipodal situation has affected their brains, or whether it is in the mind of the observer himself that has hitherto...taking for granted his own uprightness, the stranger unhesitantly imputes to them an obliquity of vision, a state of mind outwardly typified by the cat-like...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 60

American essays - 1887 - 886 pages
...God's goodness has doubtless placed him ! " Ellen Terry Johnson. THE SOUL OF THE FAR EAST. PERSONALITY. THE boyish belief that on the other side of our globe...obliquity of vision, a state of mind outwardly typified by their cat-like obliqueness of expression. If the inversion be not precisely of the kind he expected,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 60

American essays - 1887 - 940 pages
...boyish belief that on the other side of our globe all things are of necessity upside down is startUngly brought back to the man when he first sets foot at...obliquity of vision, a state of mind outwardly typified by their cat-like obliqueness of expression. If the inversion be not precisely of the kind he expected,...
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