The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the ... Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants ...Wiley & Putnam, 1848 |
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Sivu 12
... perhaps the reasons for making them so narrow . In case of fire , it is difficult to get access to the burn- ing buildings , and troublesome and dangerous for the inmates to move or save their property . At all times , porters carrying ...
... perhaps the reasons for making them so narrow . In case of fire , it is difficult to get access to the burn- ing buildings , and troublesome and dangerous for the inmates to move or save their property . At all times , porters carrying ...
Sivu 15
... perhaps shaving his friend gratis by way of recom- pense . " The herbseller chooses an open place where he will not be trampled on , and there displays his simples and his plasters , while the dentist , with a ghastly string of fangs ...
... perhaps shaving his friend gratis by way of recom- pense . " The herbseller chooses an open place where he will not be trampled on , and there displays his simples and his plasters , while the dentist , with a ghastly string of fangs ...
Sivu 21
... perhaps half of them are moored stem and stern in rows . They are not obliged to remain where they station themselves , but both the boats and their inmates are under the supervision of a water police , who register them and point out ...
... perhaps half of them are moored stem and stern in rows . They are not obliged to remain where they station themselves , but both the boats and their inmates are under the supervision of a water police , who register them and point out ...
Sivu 26
... perhaps built or repaired by go- vernment contract . " It is built on twenty - five piles of stone about thirty feet apart , and perhaps twenty feet each in height . Large round beams are laid from pile to pile , and smaller ones across ...
... perhaps built or repaired by go- vernment contract . " It is built on twenty - five piles of stone about thirty feet apart , and perhaps twenty feet each in height . Large round beams are laid from pile to pile , and smaller ones across ...
Sivu 27
... perhaps never heard of in that country , and these structures are never arched ; they merely consist of a broad gateway flanked with two smaller ones , and looking more like a turnpike gate with side - ways for foot passengers than a ...
... perhaps never heard of in that country , and these structures are never arched ; they merely consist of a broad gateway flanked with two smaller ones , and looking more like a turnpike gate with side - ways for foot passengers than a ...
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ambassy Amoy arrived authorities Batavia better boats British brought Budhist called Canton Captain Elliot carried ceremonies character chiefly China Chinese government Chinese Repository Chinkiang Christian coast Cochinchina color commenced common conduct Confucius countrymen court death dynasty emperor emperor of China empire endeavored England English exhibited exportation favor feet fire force foreigners Fuhkien governor heaven hong-merchants Hongkong imperial India intercourse Jesuits Kíying Koxinga labors land laws learned Lord Lord Napier Macao Malacca Manchus ment merchants mission missionaries mode monarch Mongols Morrison nations native Ningpo officers opium trade party Peking persons ports Portuguese present priests provinces received regard reign religion returned river rulers sent Shanghai ships silk Singapore society soon streets subjects supposed taken Tang dynasty taste temples tion treaty treaty of Nanking troops vessels Whampoa whole worship
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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...