The Chinese, Bände 1-2C. Cox, 1851 |
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... contain much valuable information on those points to which they confine themselves . Still no general account of the ... contains , from the prejudice which dis- torts some portions , and the nonsense which encum- bers others . Of the ...
... contain much valuable information on those points to which they confine themselves . Still no general account of the ... contains , from the prejudice which dis- torts some portions , and the nonsense which encum- bers others . Of the ...
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... containing the tombs of seventeen Chinese kings , full of treasure . Pinto and his companions succeeded in finding the place , and plundered the tombs , in which they found a quantity of silver : being attacked , they were obliged to ...
... containing the tombs of seventeen Chinese kings , full of treasure . Pinto and his companions succeeded in finding the place , and plundered the tombs , in which they found a quantity of silver : being attacked , they were obliged to ...
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... containing pearls and gold , freighted by certain Armenians . Meanwhile the Company's Council were in a very unpleasant situation , being held responsible by the government for the acts of M'Clary , who certainly was little better than ...
... containing pearls and gold , freighted by certain Armenians . Meanwhile the Company's Council were in a very unpleasant situation , being held responsible by the government for the acts of M'Clary , who certainly was little better than ...
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... containing eight regulations for the conduct of foreign intercourse , which tended to make the condition of Europeans in China even worse than it had been . No persons were to remain during the summer at Canton ; the native servants ...
... containing eight regulations for the conduct of foreign intercourse , which tended to make the condition of Europeans in China even worse than it had been . No persons were to remain during the summer at Canton ; the native servants ...
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... contains nothing to warrant the inference that the admiral discussed this point with the Canton government , or indeed that he had any communication with the viceroy . The Wel- lesley arrived in China on the 12th July , 1838 , accom ...
... contains nothing to warrant the inference that the admiral discussed this point with the Canton government , or indeed that he had any communication with the viceroy . The Wel- lesley arrived in China on the 12th July , 1838 , accom ...
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ambassador ancient appear arrival Asiatic boats Boca Tigris book of Mencius British Budha Budhist called canal Canton Canton province Canton river Captain ceremony character chief China Chinese government coast commencement conduct Confucius considerable consists course court death despatched dress dynasty edict embassy emperor empire English European existence factory favour Fokien foreign forms gate George Staunton heaven Hong merchants honour imperial India intercourse Jesuits junks king language length letter Lord Lord Macartney Macao majesty's ships Manchow mandarins manner ment mission Mongol nations native nature nese Ningpo notice object observed occasion officers Peking period persons portion Portuguese possess present priests principal proceeded province punished racter rank reign remarkable respect sect seems sent ships side silk sometimes soon sovereign taëls Tartar temple tion tombs trade vessels viceroy wall Whampoa whole wife Yellow River
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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...