The Chinese, Bände 1-2C. Cox, 1851 |
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... boats were landed with about one hundred men ; which sight occasioned them , with great distractions , instantly to abandon the castle and fly ; the boats ' crews , in the mean time , without let entering the same , and dis- playing his ...
... boats were landed with about one hundred men ; which sight occasioned them , with great distractions , instantly to abandon the castle and fly ; the boats ' crews , in the mean time , without let entering the same , and dis- playing his ...
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... boat , to say that three Spanish ships were lying off Macao to intercept her : the Hardwicke accordingly sailed away for Amoy . There , however , the mandarins insisted on the ship's pro- ceeding into the inner harbour without any ...
... boat , to say that three Spanish ships were lying off Macao to intercept her : the Hardwicke accordingly sailed away for Amoy . There , however , the mandarins insisted on the ship's pro- ceeding into the inner harbour without any ...
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... boat , alongside the Lady Hughes , country ship , being in the way of a gun fired in sa- luting , three Chinese had been badly injured . On the following day it was learned that one had died ; and the gunner , though entirely innocent ...
... boat , alongside the Lady Hughes , country ship , being in the way of a gun fired in sa- luting , three Chinese had been badly injured . On the following day it was learned that one had died ; and the gunner , though entirely innocent ...
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... boats of the several ships manned and armed , both as a security , and to manifest in the strongest manner the light in which they viewed the acts of the government . Two English boats were despatched to Whampoa to carry this into ...
... boats of the several ships manned and armed , both as a security , and to manifest in the strongest manner the light in which they viewed the acts of the government . Two English boats were despatched to Whampoa to carry this into ...
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... boat appeared one night to be attempting to cut the schooner's cable . As they returned no answer on being hailed , a shot was fired into the boat , by which one Chinese was wounded , and another , who jumped overboard in his fright ...
... boat appeared one night to be attempting to cut the schooner's cable . As they returned no answer on being hailed , a shot was fired into the boat , by which one Chinese was wounded , and another , who jumped overboard in his fright ...
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according ancient appear arrival authority boats called Canton carried ceremony character chief China Chinese common conduct considerable considered consists contains course court death dynasty effect embassy emperor empire English equal established European existence extremely fact force foreign forms four give given hand head heaven Hong hundred immediately imperial king language length less letter Lord Macao mandarins manner means measure ment merchants native nature nearly never notice object observed occasion officers once original passed Peking perform perhaps period persons portion possess present priests principal proceeded proved province punished rank reached reason received relations remained remarkable respect river seems seen sent serve ships side sometimes soon success taken Tartar temple tion trade wall whole
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Seite 256 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Seite 9 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Seite 255 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave.
Seite 203 - And really it is an honour, and almost a singular one to our English laws, that they furnish a title of this sort ; since preventive justice is, upon every principle of reason, of humanity* and of sound policy, preferable in all respects to punishing justice...
Seite 223 - ... in which they are expressed. There is nothing here of the monstrous verbiage of most other Asiatic productions ; none of the superstitious deliration, the miserable incoherence, the tremendous...
Seite 255 - Now you shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of a shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock.
Seite 240 - The barber learns his art on the orphan's face;" the Chinese, " In a field of melons do not pull up your shoe; under a plum-tree do not adjust your cap...
Seite 12 - These matters are all so well understood by those who are bred up to them, that they occasion no embarrassment whatever to the Chinese. The ordinary salutation among equals is to join the closed hands, and lift them two or three times towards the head, saying, Haou — tsing, tsing ; that is, " Are you well ? — Hail, hail '" Hence is derived, we believe, the Canton jargon of chin-chin.
Seite 32 - Portngalls had in all that time, since the return of the pinnace, so beslandered them to the Chinese, reporting them to be rogues, thieves, beggars, and what not, that they became very jealous of the good meaning of the English...
Seite 141 - And those who think still govern those who toil." The commentary appended to the foregoing in the Chinese work proceeds to add, — "The mutual benefit derived by these different classes from each other's exertions resembles the advantage that results to the farmer and mechanic from the exchange of their respective produce. Hence it is proved that the exemption of some from manual labour is beneficial to the whole community." It appears from the book of Mencius...