The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the ... Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants ...Wiley & Putnam, 1848 |
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Sivu 10
... merchants there have cultivated grounds of greater or less extent attached to their establishments , but none of them have gardens exhibiting much of the peculiar style of the country . One of the late hong - merchants built a glass ...
... merchants there have cultivated grounds of greater or less extent attached to their establishments , but none of them have gardens exhibiting much of the peculiar style of the country . One of the late hong - merchants built a glass ...
Sivu 25
... merchants are learning that foreign vessels are both safer and cheaper . Most of the larger junks trading with Borneo and Siam employ Portuguese pilots ; but even with their assistance and a favorable monsoon , many are annually lost ...
... merchants are learning that foreign vessels are both safer and cheaper . Most of the larger junks trading with Borneo and Siam employ Portuguese pilots ; but even with their assistance and a favorable monsoon , many are annually lost ...
Sivu 96
... merchants have not been in the best position to ascertain their real character in this respect ; for on the one hand the courtiers of Peking thought themselves called upon by the mere presence of an embassy to put on some fictitious ...
... merchants have not been in the best position to ascertain their real character in this respect ; for on the one hand the courtiers of Peking thought themselves called upon by the mere presence of an embassy to put on some fictitious ...
Sivu 98
... use of opium ( furnished too by British and American merchants ) , destroying the productions and natural resources of the people ; the univer- SUMMARY OF CHINESE CHARACTER . 99 sal practice of lying 98 THE MIDDLE KINGDOM .
... use of opium ( furnished too by British and American merchants ) , destroying the productions and natural resources of the people ; the univer- SUMMARY OF CHINESE CHARACTER . 99 sal practice of lying 98 THE MIDDLE KINGDOM .
Sivu 142
... merchants can buy or freight foreign ships at a much cheaper rate than they can build them . Brass cannon were made during the war with England in imitation of pieces taken from a wreck , and the frames of one or two vessels to be ...
... merchants can buy or freight foreign ships at a much cheaper rate than they can build them . Brass cannon were made during the war with England in imitation of pieces taken from a wreck , and the frames of one or two vessels to be ...
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Sivu 224 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you...
Sivu 245 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Sivu 539 - Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana...
Sivu 539 - Our minister, Caleb Cushing, is authorized to make a treaty to regulate trade. Let it be just. Let there be no unfair advantage on either side.
Sivu 85 - Hardly prepared for this blow to my established notions, I requested he would discourse of their philosophy. He reopened the volume, and read with becoming gravity, ' The most learned men are decidedly of opinion that the seat of the human understanding is the stomach.'* I seized the volume in despair, and rushed from the apartment.
Sivu 540 - Pekin, and there deliver it ; and that your great officers will, by your order, make a treaty with him to regulate affairs of trade, so that nothing may happen to disturb the peace between China and America. Let the treaty be signed by your own imperial hand. It shall be signed by mine, by the authority of our great council, the Senate. And so may your health be good, and may peace reign.
Sivu 88 - With a general regard for outward decency, they are vile and polluted in a shocking degree, their conversation is full of filthy expressions, and their lives of impure acts.
Sivu 445 - The barbarians are like beasts, and not to be ruled on the same principles as citizens. Were any one to attempt controlling them by the great maxims of reason, it would tend to nothing but confusion. The ancient kings well understood this, and accordingly ruled barbarians by misrule. Therefore, to rule barbarians by misrule is the true and the best way of ruling them.
Sivu 540 - Fu-chow, and all such other places as may offer profitable exchanges both to China and the United States, provided they do not break your laws nor our laws. We shall not take the part of evil-doers. We shall not uphold them that break your laws. Therefore, we doubt not that you will be pleased...
Sivu 507 - Emperor he described how he had braved the hottest of the fight " on the battle-field, where cannon balls innumerable, flying in awful confusion through the expanse of Heaven, fell before, behind, and on either side of him, while in the distance he saw the ships of the rebels, standing erect, lofty as the mountains. The fierce daring of the rebels was inconceivable. Officers and men fell at their posts. Every effort to resist and check the...