an insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the heads of British subjects in that part of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison. The Life of Lord John Russell - Sivu 290tekijä(t) Sir Spencer Walpole - 1889Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1857 - 612 sivua
...With historic pen he states the course of events at Canton in two ever memorable sentences : — ' An insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton,...destruction by murder, assassinations, and poisons. ' The British officers, civil and naval, on the station, had taken those measures which appeared to them... | |
| 1857 - 640 sivua
...states the course of events at Canton in two ever memorable sentences : — ' An insolent barharian, wielding authority at Canton, had violated the British...destruction by murder, assassinations, and poisons. 'The British officers, civil and naval, on the station, had taken those measures which appeared to them... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 sivua
...the ministry was assailed. This the noble lord placed in the just point of view in .his own words : " An insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton,...that part of China, and planned their destruction by murders, assassinations, and poisons. The British officers, civil and naval, on the station had taken... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 522 sivua
...the ministry was assailed. This the noble lord placed in the just point of view in his own words : " An insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton,...the heads of British subjects in that part of China, May — voL. ex. no. cccexxxvii. E and planned their destruction by murders, assassinations, and poisons.... | |
| William Freke Williams - 1864 - 900 sivua
...national spirit; asserting, that he and his government wished to punish "an insolent barbarian," who, "wielding authority at Canton, had violated the British...that part of China, and planned their destruction by murders, assassinations, and poisons;" whilst their opponents were " endeavouring to make the humiliation... | |
| George Rose Emerson - 1881 - 474 sivua
...declared that "an insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the...of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison." The last words referred to a supposed attempt by a Chinese baker named... | |
| Justin McCarthy - 1881 - 708 sivua
...declared that "an insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the...of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison." That, of course, was all-sufficient. The "insolent barbarian" was in itself... | |
| Thomas Archer - 1883 - 786 sivua
...Yeh as "an insolent barbarian," who, "wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the...of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison." Would the British nation, he asked, give their support to men who, if they... | |
| Justin McCarthy - 1883 - 464 sivua
...declared that an insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the...of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison. That of course was all-sufficient. The ' insolent barbarian ' was in itself... | |
| Thomas Archer - 1883 - 766 sivua
...Yeh as "an insolent barbarian," who, "wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the...of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison." Would the British nation, he asked, give their support to men who, if they... | |
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