 Opium has spread with frightful rapidity and heart-rending results through the provinces. Millions upon millions have been struck down by the plague. To-day it is running like wildfire. In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere,...  China: Its History, Arts and Literature - Sivu 166tekijä(t) Frank Brinkley - 1902Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1901 - 998 sivua
...To-day it is running like wildfire. In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and...wealth of its victims. The ruin of the mind is the most woeful of its many deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles the will, saps the strength of the body,... | |
 | 1899 - 896 sivua
...To-day it is running like wild fire. In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and...wealth of its victims. The ruin of the mind is the most woeful of its many deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles the will, saps the strength of the body,... | |
 | Zhidong Zhang - 1900 - 176 sivua
...To-day it is running like wildfire. In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and...incapable of performing his regular duties, and unfit for travel from one place to another. It consumes his substance and reduces the miserable wretch to... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1900 - 1158 sivua
...To-day it is running like wild-fire. In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds, and eating away the strength and...incapable of performing his regular duties, and unfit for travel from one place to another. It consumes his substance, and reduces the miserable wretch to... | |
 | Zhidong Zhang - 1900 - 170 sivua
...In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating 72 away the strength and wealth of its victims. The ruin...incapable of performing his regular duties, and unfit for travel from one place to another. It consumes his substance and reduces the miserable wretch to... | |
 | Arthur H. Smith - 1901 - 466 sivua
...minds and eating away the strength and wealth of its victims. The ruin of the mind is the most woeful of its many deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles...incapable of performing his regular duties, and unfit for travel from one place to another. It consumes his substance and reduces the miserable wretch to... | |
 | Arthur Henderson Smith - 1901 - 462 sivua
...To-day it is running like wildfire. In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and...wealth of its victims. The ruin of the mind is the most woeful of its many deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles the will, saps the strength of the body,... | |
 | Arthur H. Smith - 1903 - 286 sivua
...To-day it is running like wildfire. In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and...incapable of performing his regular duties, and unfit for travel from one place to another. It consumes his substance and reduces the miserable wretch to... | |
 | Archibald Edward Glover - 1904 - 470 sivua
...To-day it is running like wildfire. In its swift deadly course, it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and...wealth of its victims. The ruin of the mind is the most woeful of its many deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles the will, saps the strength of the body,... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - 1904 - 376 sivua
...running like wild-fire. In its swift, deadly course, it is spreading devastation everywhere, weakening the minds and eating away the strength and wealth of its victims."' It is the fashion of some to pooh-pooh the opium trade, to say that the Chinese connived at it, and... | |
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