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pekin
name 4noun 1
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3ADJ.
living
PEKIN + NOUN
china
PREP.
between, in
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1
Obsolete form of Peking.
The same country furnishes me with another instance of extended inland commerce. It is found worth while to keep up a mercantile communication between Pekin in China, and Petersburgh. And none of these instances of inland commerce exceed those of the courses by which, at several periods, the whole of the trade of the East was carried on.
His father, Tchoung-Heou, was living at Pekin when he was born ; and he was six years old when the former settled at Shang-hai.
2
A city, the county seat of Tazewell County, Illinois.
3
A hamlet in New York.
4
A city and village in North Dakota.
noun
1
A type of patterned silk.
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The same country furnishes me with another instance of extended inland commerce. It is found worth while to keep up a mercantile communication between Pekin in China, and Petersburgh. And none of thes
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His father, Tchoung-Heou, was living at Pekin when he was born ; and he was six years old when the former settled at Shang-hai.
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The importance of the President in our foreign relations, when his power in that regard is considered in connection with his duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and with his duty
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