This Goodly Frame the Earth

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Excerpt from This Goodly Frame the Earth: Stray Impressions of Scenes, Incidents and Persons in a Journey Touching Japan, China, Egypt, Palestine and GreeceParsons or otherwise, large numbers of the impecunious stoutly aver that they, too, would be glad of a trip round the world, were it not for the cost of the thing. This is no valid excuse. It need not cost one a penny, nay, on the contrary, prove the happiest means of escape from the outlay one is subjected to by staying prosaically at home. What is the paradoxical fellow driving at? Will be the natural outcry. Well, at a statement of the plainest matter of fact. Nothing further is requisite than to drop in unexpectedly of an even ing at the house of a generous-hearted friend, one of the kind who, having freely received, loves freely to give, - and then and there to have your breath taken away by his sudden exclamation, I want to go round the world, and I want you to go with me I Say yes, and it shall not cost you a yen, a rupee, or a piastre. In a ¿ash start up before the mind's eye snow crowned Fujisan in Japan, with all the Hima layan giants from Mt. Everest to Kunchinjinga.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.