Memoirs of the Chief Incidents of the Public Life of Sir George T. Staunton |
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Aberdeen acquaintance afterwards amongst appointment Baronet Bart British Canton character chief China Chinese Embassy Chinese language circumstances close borough College Committee considerable contest course Court of Directors Court of Pekin dear Sir George dear Staunton duties Earl East India Company election Ellis extract father favour feel flattering fortune friends GEORGE LEONARD STAUNTON GEORGE THOMAS STAUNTON Government gratified happiness Hong Kong honour House of Commons Hüttner interesting January John Robert Morrison Leigh Park letter literary London Lord Amherst Lord Macartney Lord Palmerston Macao Mandarines Memoir ment mission to Pekin Morrison notice occasion opinion Paris Parliament party period popular Portsmouth position present received rendered residence respect retire Royal sacrifice seat Shang-tee sidered Signed sincerely Sir George Staunton Sir George Thomas Sir Henry Pottinger Sir John Sir Robert Peel society soon South Hampshire success testimony tion Trade translation vote
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Sivu 186 - We know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good, and of all comfort '. In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition, with which the accumulated absurdity of the human mind might have crusted it over in the course of ages, that ninety-nine in a hundred of the people of England would not prefer to impiety.
Sivu 188 - I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite and lavish praise of the happiness of our boyish years, which is echoed with so much affectation in the world. That happiness I have never known, that time I have never regretted...
Sivu 186 - ... receipt, or application of its consecrated revenue. Violently condemning neither the Greek nor the Armenian, nor, since heats are subsided, the Roman system of religion, we prefer the Protestant, not because we think it has less of the Christian religion in it, but because, in our judgment, it has more. We are Protestants, not from indifference but from zeal.
Sivu 187 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
Sivu 188 - But every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Sivu 13 - British Ambassador) was deemed a mark of personal favour, according• to the ideas of eastern nations, among whom anything worn by the person of the sovereign, is prized beyond all other gifts.
Sivu 188 - I had not been endowed by art or nature -with those happy gifts of confidence and address which unlock every door and every bosom; nor would it be reasonable to complain of the just consequences of my sickly childhood, foreign education, and reserved temper. While coaches were rattling through Bond Street, I have passed many a solitary evening in my lodging with my books.
Sivu 12 - Ho-choong-taung whether any person of the embassy understood the Chinese language; and, being informed that the ambassador's page — a boy then in his thirteenth year — had alone made some proficiency in it, the emperor had the curiosity to have the youth brought up to the throne, and desired him to speak Chinese. Either what he said, or his modest countenance, or manner, was so pleasing to his imperial majesty, that he took from his girdle a purse, hanging from it, for holding areca nuts, and...
Sivu 57 - The discussions which had previously taken place in 1813, relative to the renewal of the charter of the East India Company...
Sivu 213 - ... 25 0 0 For some time this Institution did not make much progress ; but latterly, under the auspices of the Earl of Clarendon, several scholarships have been conferred upon these students of King's College who have obtained certificates of their proficiency in the Chinese language. III. The following is the return sent to Parliament on the death of the late John Robert Morrison: — " Return to an Address of the House of Commons for Copies or Extracts of all Despatches or Communications that may...